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EU Directive Re “Cookies”
Jul
06
And not the tasty chocolate chip type either! Legislation The official ICO guidance on cookies issued only on 9th May which came into effect on 25th May. This legislation had not passed into UK law at the time of writing (07/06/2011) due to the usual public sector delays; In essence then, the visitor to any [...]
Monkeys Ahoy
Jul
06
A Slightly Different Adventure At Slightly Different we like to take some time to send our staff out into the world – to experience fresh air and sunshine, so they don’t forget what it looks like. Luckily for us we got the perfect opportunity a few weeks ago… Wild Futures, a monkey sanctuary not too [...]
Client Focus – Garage Door Direct
Apr
08
Big J’s new store Garage Door Direct have been selling garage doors online for over 5 years, in fact, we built the first site that they used to do just this, back in 2005.. Project Objectives: With the competition hot on their tails, Jon and his team at Garage Door Direct were keen to stay [...]
It’s official – browser wars are back in fashion !
Apr
08
The Browsers we love to hate The three biggest web-browsers by market share are all launched their latest products last month, with big upgrades in functionality; Surely an endorsement for how competition works in ensuring power and choice to the consumer, with Google committed to releasing a new copy of Chrome every 6 weeks; Resembling a football and funded by Google, [...]
London Calling
Apr
08
When One Expo Just Won’t Do! As many of you are all aware, London is a hub of cultural activity – not a day goes by when we Londoners aren’t spoilt for choice by a whole plethora of social events to attend. From trade shows to expo’s, conferences to business breakfasts, structured networking events [...]
Computer Gaming
Apr
08
Child’s Play or Big Business? Many organisations recognise the potential of sporting events to make money, with the London 2012 Olympic Games being a topical case in point where increasingly ingenious ways of capitalising on this continue to hit the news on a regular basis. The latest one I’ve seen was someone living near the [...]
SD funnies
Apr
07
Funnies – stuff to make you smile this month Some Brilliance in terms of viral marketing! How to Give Cat a Pill… 1. Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right fore finger and thumb on either side of [...]
Fail to Prepare, Prepare to Fail
Apr
07
Steve Hanson Tells it like it is… We are often invited to events, whether for networking or to take part in seminars and workshops. We have also run a few ourselves, and it can sometimes be a bit daunting. As I have a background in training, very early on in my career I learnt [...]
Intersections 11 – A designers perspective
Apr
07
At the beginning of March two members of the team attended Intersections 11 – a creative business summit based at the Eden project. http://intersections2011.com/ Intersections, titled – re-designing the future of business spanned two whole days and required quite the commitment from it’s delegates especially those special few that stayed the night in the ‘Shelterbox [...]
Case Study – Business Answers
Apr
06
The Architect Knows All After countless hours* of planning meetings, documentation, design, further meetings, website development, programming, head scratching, more programming, more meetings, systems integration, data migration, database querying, head scratching, training, more meetings, and several rounds of testing including alpha, beta, gamma, and several other Greek types of testing, we are finally in a [...]
Our New Project Manager
Apr
06
Introducing Andrew Exelby Cor blimey govner! …. another one to add to the collection of specialists at Slightly Different. When Andrew walked through the door, we knew we’d struck gold, this is a man who thrives on scheduling, who’s attention to detail is second to none and who has an instant raport with our clients [...]