This week saw the launch of the new Dyslexia Teaching Centre website. We designed a bright and colourful online presence for this site and built it using WordPress so the DTC staff can update it themselves with the latest news, events and publications surrounding London’s dyslexic community. The project also gave our very own Christian a chance to dust off his camera and produce the imagery for the site. Our thanks go again to our partners over at Zebra Crossing for their help on this project.

“Were it not a multi billion dollar international business, you’d think bottled water was a corporate prank, after all, one quarter of it is simply filtered tap water. Take a tour into the swilling fields.”

Our friends and neighbours Provokateur have just introduced to the world their new project: Tap. Tap is taking on the bottled water industry and asking people to enjoy tap water instead — ask for it by name.

George Oates from Flickr talks about what they learnt building and working with their community. Very relevant for us right now…

More and more people just use Google to get to websites rather than bother typing in a hard to remember web address. Read more on Search Engine Journal.

While we have had mixed feelings about Twitter in the past, we’re working with a client on a super simple news feed system (wanting to avoid a blog or full news system) and we realised that Twitter would be ideal. With that in mind FoxLand has finally climbed on board, as have Christian, Calum and Andrew. 

Jeffrey Zeldman talks about the demise of the personal website:

In the past 5 years or so we have witnessed a change in how people manage their personal websites. 10 years ago people tried hard to show-off with self-consciously cool websites, or odd little pages with hard to read text about their cat on garish backgrounds. Then came blogging were people wrote about their cats every day, but it was still on ‘their site’. Now we’re seeing people feel much less importance in the ownership of their space. MySpace was possibly the start of this trend, but now with Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, YouTube, etc., keeping your own personal space online just seems like too much hassle now.

What Zeldman does not discuss is that this is happening increasingly with companies and organisations too. Whether they have a Facebook page, a corporate Twitter account, video on YouTube, an eBay account for ecommerce, Amazon S3 for storage or tools like Basecamp, Salesforce and Google Documents for their intranets, the de-centralisation of organisations is happening, and we regularly recommend this for clients.