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27 Apr 2012
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We need a Project Manager at Simpleweb HQ

by Simpleweb Filed under: Company

We’re growing and to keep projects streamlined we’re looking for a project manager. If this is you please send your cover email and CV to Holly. If  you know someone please let them know and if they’re successful we’ll give you £200.

Here’s the official description:

Simpleweb is a small, fast-paced and energetic company with big ambitions, great ideas and a focus on building awesome web based products. We have an agile approach to development and are looking for a talented, dynamic and organised Project Manager with a track record of delivering digital software applications to join our brilliant team.

We are looking for a driven and focused Project Manager who can handle multiple projects easily, isn’t phased by abnormal working hours and takes pride in their results.

You will be core to our greatest asset – our team, a hard working, creative team of developers who like to play hard too…

We build everything from simple WordPress sites, web start-ups to our own products. You will already have a broad range of experience that you can bring to every project.

Personal Traits:

You will be a pragmatic and outgoing person with a passion for online projects and not shy away from the challenge of effectively and confidently managing a range of projects.

You need to be a great team player, love technology, have entrepreneurial spirit, with a good sense of humour, a bucket load of common sense and enjoy delivering great results.

Responsibilities:

● You will be responsible for the delivery of simultaneous projects to a high quality, on time and on budget through the effective management of clients, people and resources.

● The Project Manager is the first point of contact for clients so is responsible for managing expectations, problem solving and elevating issues at the appropriate times.

● Provide the team with clear insight into project requirements and expectations highlighting critical success and failure points.

● Work with technical team to determine feasibility of possible solutions and assist in decision making based on project expectations, time and cost.

● Manage our internal projects with a consistent approach to our client work.

● Effectively manage time and resources for ongoing client support for issues that arise outside of fixed projects, in line with our SLAs.

● Run suitable project debriefing sessions and work with directors to assess where ongoing improvements to processes can be made.

Remuneration:

● Salary competitive depending on experience

● Company share options

● Private medical insurance

● Pension scheme

To apply, please send us a cover letter/email with a bit about yourself and a concise CV outlining your experience to Holly

No agencies please.

5 Apr 2012
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Optimisation Tactics

by adambutler Filed under: Knowledge,Optimisation

Optimisation is a core element in building any successful product regardless of whether its a website, an app or even a game. But optimisation isn’t just about keeping the file size down its about providing the most fitting possible solution for any given task.

When optimising we think about value, usability, readability, communication and personality as well as the more traditional foundations such as SEO and load times. Covering all these core concepts will ensure you have a delicious product.

So how do we do it?

Throughout each step of design, development and testing we think about these core principles based on our collective experience and through experimenting. Here is one such example…

For one of our top secret projects we have in development we have two large containers which you can navigate between, we found that having a drop shadow these containers caused a subtle but noticeable lag when animating in and out. As with any project there is always more than one technical way to active a task so we brainstormed potential fixes which would allow us to keep the design with a drop shadow.

We decided to trial our current method (A), animating css position values, against CSS Transitions (B). To stress test the demo each container was filled with 2312 child elements all individually coloured and with opacity. The parent containers have the same drop shadow as we intend to use in our project.

Method B out performed A quite significantly in each of the tests. Spending just a little bit of time on this problem helped ensure we had a buttery smooth animation. Although this is a very specific example this logic is used each of the optimisation tests that we run and is essential to making great products.

You can view this test here…. but remember it is a stress test so it may crash your browser.

2 Sep 2011
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4 Aug 2011
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Link Goodness – August 4th

by Julia Filed under: Knowledge

As promised here’s your weekly dose of the top links we’ve been sharing.

Enjoy.

Teux Deux

Keep organised with this “simple, designy, to-do app”.

Contrast rebellion

A website dedicating itself to the importance of contrast in web-design: ”Low contrast font and unreadable texts.. To hell with them!”

Git Enterprise

GitEnterprise’s free account allows unlimited git repositories hosting!

Fiverr

Got a fiverr? The possibilities are pretty much endless. Get someone to design you a logo or even be your “Facebook girlfriend” for a week.

Social media winners: Disney

Check out the social media strategy that has helped Disney become one of the most powerful brands, online and off.

31 Jul 2011
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A little monkey love

by Mark P. Filed under: Products

We all like cakes. We all like a bit of love. So when a mysterious box arrived at the office on Friday from a client with the most beautiful cup cakes in, we were super chuffed.

The sparkly cakes from the lovely folk at Go Ape were to thank us for delivering their summer campaign with such brevity and fabulousness!

We built the social competition using the pro version of our new Rusic.com product, enabling us to build the competition in days instead of weeks (or months). We think it’s pretty awesome and after only a few days it’s already got some amazing stories going on.

Craziness by Go Ape, design by Refreshed, social and tech by Simpleweb, and of course the CAKES by Rachaels Kitchen. Awesome.