Thai Woman’s Organisation site goes live
Today saw the launch of the site we created for the Thai Woman’s Organisation (TWO). Set up by a group of Thai housewives 20 years ago, TWO is now an official organisation and registered charity that provides essential help and advice to Thai people coming to live in the UK. With the difficulties associated with living in what to them is a foreign country increasing in complexity – be they linguistic, cultural or legal – the website is sure to offer valuable assistance to the help TWO provides.Although a small project for FoxLand it was a challenging one because most of the website uses a Thai font. It was a test of the simple and intuitive content management system we used, WordPress, and a big test for our designer. I’m glad to say both passed with flying colours.
31 October, 2007
Hello Nolle
We’re extremely pleased to announce that Christian Nolle, a web designer, joined us on the 8th October at FoxLand. Hailing from the kingdom of Denmark he has worked on a number of websites primarily for photographers, artists and small organisations such as Centre des l’ivres d’artistes (an artist book centre), University College of the Creative Arts, David Moore (photographer), Oreet Ashery (performance artist), Emmanuelle Waeckerle (artist) and Jens Walter Linder (sculpture and painting). On Christian’s personal website you can discover more about his photography and art work. He has a great clean visual design style and is obsessed by the latest and greatest web technologies, great XHTML/CSS coding, Textpattern, a passion to learn, and… aeroplanes.
25 October, 2007
Letting logos loosen up
Wolff Olins talk in the New York Times about their 2012 Olympics, New York City, New Museum of Contemporary Arts and other identities, and how they are all designed to be flexible, mutable devices that should not remain rigid. While they say that “in the era of blogging, social networking and mash-ups … a bit of flexibility is essential”, this is not such a new concept – companies such as MTV have been doing this for a long time – and surely does not need the web as a reason to think this way.
Look out vampires and werewolves, it’s MySpace vs Facebook
Yesterday saw the unveiling of the new MySpace Platform at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco – a move which has been seen as a clear counterstrike against main rival Facebook.
The MySpace plans are clearly a response to the huge success of the Facebook Platform, which launched last May and which has seen the creation of thousands of third party applications (some, admittedly, more annoying than others).
Showing how important MySpace is to News Corp, the announcement was made by Rupert Murdoch himself, along with Chris DeWolfe, the co-founder of MySpace. Indeed, of the $5 billion News Corp are expected to make in 2008 Murdoch predicted a significant contribution of $300 million profit will come from MySpace alone.
Best presentation… ever
We have been researching presentations best practice – and we came across this incredible performance from Dick Hardt. Not for everyone – but still worth watching.
16 October, 2007
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Giving a user a clear instruction on ‘how’ to move on in their task, rather than just ‘what’ they’re moving on to, is a good thing. Copyblogger and GrokDotCom discuss.
How to write introductory text
Jakob Neilsen talks about getting introductory text right. It sounds simple, but, as is typical when writing for the web, it is not.
“If the best band in the world doesn’t want a part of us, I’m not sure what’s left for this business.”
Radiohead have announced the release of their new album ‘In Rainbows’ on the 10th October. They’re doing it on their own without a record label as a pay-as-much-as-you-want download and a fancy expensive CD/vinyl/book behemoth. This is pretty fundamental stuff: the record companies know it, and are scared of it. Time (which features the above quote from an anonymous exec) and many others are discussing what it all means.