posted

March 11, 2010

time

5:20 p.m.

by

Sam

YouTube and BBC down
Happens to the biggest

Scarily, YouTube went down today for a few minutes, and we noticed that the BBC website went down a couple of days ago as well, which just goes to show that even the monsters of the net sometimes have bugs and server issues once in a while.

Note on the image below quite how bad the YouTube error message is. Not sure the developers would like to be referred to as 'Highly trained monkeys'? We also didn't cut off 'situat', that is how it displayed. :-)

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posted

March 1, 2010

time

12:58 p.m.

by

Sam

Django Developer Job
Job Opening Available

Calling all Python - Django web developers based in Bristol or wanting to move to Bristol. There is a rare opening at The House of Omni for someone with your skill set. Follow this link for full job spec.

http://www.thehouseofomni.com/jobs/web-developer-job-opening/

We look forward to hearing from you.

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posted

Feb. 20, 2010

time

3:52 p.m.

by

Sam

FFF Announced
Finish at Five on Fridays

We announced last week the start of the, oh so very popular, 'F.F.F.' campaign, standing for 'Finish at Five on Fridays'. 

It's all about enjoying a little more of life, a little more sun and a little more time for fun......all subject to delivery deadlines....obviously. ;-)

We are sure that heightened productivity and general moral boosting would more than balance out the loss of hours, or may even slightly improved on it, so we're willing to give it a go.

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posted

Feb. 18, 2010

time

11:25 a.m.

by

John

Please Rob Me
Twitter Dangers

We were all thinking it but finally someone has realised it by producing a funny website about the dangers of Tweating your Geo Location....specifically regards noting exactly when you are NOT at home!!!

Great job guys. :-)

http://pleaserobme.com/

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posted

Feb. 16, 2010

time

7:51 p.m.

by

Sam

Future of Web Design
Conference

We are really excited..if not a little lighter in our wallet, after booking a couple of tickets, travel and hotels to the Future of Web Design conference in London this May, which looks to be an intense knowledge share, check out the schedule.

One of our back-end developers turned it down in favour of this years Django Conference which looks to be happening in Germany....nice!....keep an eye on the Django Con website for updates.

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posted

Feb. 12, 2010

time

3:30 p.m.

by

Sam

Explore Omni
OMNI STUDIO TOUR UPDATE

A quick one to let you know we have updated the Omni studio tour with some new pics and a master shot taken early in the morning when the sun streams through…love it at that time of day. :-)

View the Omni Studio Tour

(Flash Required)

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posted

Feb. 5, 2010

time

8:27 a.m.

by

Sam

Wrangler set the bar
Jeans web design

Had to share some love for this really innovative website done for Wrangler. It's not a big site, you can't even shop on it...but in my opinion it has made Wrangler the most memorable Jean brand of the year, creating some kind of groovy interactive music video where the user can dress and undress the models, throwing them around the screen or making them dance. 

Very cool, very smooth work....Turn the volume up! :-)

http://eu.wrangler.com/bluebell/#/collection

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posted

Jan. 31, 2010

time

3:07 p.m.

by

Sam

IE6 web browser
No longer supported

After several previous blog posts about Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) Omni are announcing, (along with Google), that we are phasing out support for this bug-plagued browser during the coming weeks.

It has been a long time coming but this dated and restrictive browser is finally coming to the end of its life. 

Sparked by recent and well publicised security breaches, which allowed the Gmail accounts of human rights activists to be hacked in China, Microsoft has been forced to admit that IE6 was in fact the weakest link and this lead to French and German governments both advising the public to change their web browser to combat the security issue.

Don't get me wrong, in its time IE6 certainly did the job but a lot has moved on in the last few years. Microsoft has already released updated versions of the browser in the form of IE7 and even IE8 but due to slow action in UK government departments to update their systems, the browser has been hanging on long after its shelf life.

Up to now, developers have found that they are having to restrict themselves, working around what IE6 lets you actually do online. This is slowing down the progression of the web as a whole in dealing with rich and diverse media. Hopefully this new shift will mean a more exciting, safer and less risky environment for web users and mean that developers can move forward into new and exciting online arenas.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8488751.stm

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posted

Jan. 30, 2010

time

6:26 a.m.

by

Sam

Motion Graphics
Beautiful TV Spot

Just came across this beautiful TV spot for Chinese TV station CCTV and wanted to share. Lovely art direction and effects.

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posted

Jan. 26, 2010

time

9:19 a.m.

by

Sam

Body of Art
Social Network for Artists

Omni have just been commissioned to start work on a major new Social Networking website for artists to share their work, ideas, comments, skills and resources creating 'Body of Art', (BOA).

BOA will feature the highest rated, editors choice and most recently update artists profiles and help inspire and create a network allowing comment and engagement in an online artistic debate. The site will also house a resource for users to access information on art galleries, museums, related art material shops etc. 

BOA is an entirely new venture which Omni will help guide through concept into launch.

We are very excited about this project, and confident Body of Art will be a beautiful website and go on to become a major success and inspiration for artists around the world.

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posted

Jan. 17, 2010

time

3:07 p.m.

by

Sam

Internet Explorer
Time to let it go

Could this finally be the end of Internet Explorer?

BBC News article

All web developers have been saying Internet Explorer is incredibly flawed for years but you have to listen when a whole country says it! :-) 

Come on all you PC user, it takes five minutes to install Firefox or Google Chrome and those security holes, pop-ups and sketchy navigation will all be solved.

Download Firefox browser

Download Google Chrome browser

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posted

Jan. 7, 2010

time

11:07 a.m.

by

Sam

Happy 2010
Be gone 2009

Welcome back everyone, we hope you had a lovely Christmas break and we wish you all wealth, health and happiness for 2010.

So, Omni are getting off to a running (if not a little slippery from the ice) start to the New Year. We are days away from launching the new WWT Consulting website which looks lovely and is superbly usable. It also includes some smooth Google Map API integration and some very subtle Flash animation techniques.

The Marque-It website and brand is also close to launch. We are just finalising some complex database integration, as the site relies on vehicle registration lookup to supply lots of its core data.

The web team are also about to undertake two large social networking based websites so keep an eye on our news for more info on those.

Some other briefs in development at the moment are some slick motion graphics projects, one for a large scale internal conference (which we are not allowed to talk about I'm afraid but includes product builds, fly through and logo design on all conference items including t-shirt and name badges) and the other is a five minute brand film for a major international engineering business, which off the back of our proposal they described as, "the most creative project they have ever done".

We also recently launched a viral video campaign for NHS Bristol called Chlamjam which supports Chlamydia testing in young people. You can see one of the films here>> (but be warned…it's a little saucy) :-) Combined views to date for the campaign are 85,000.

All in all things are looking good for the start of the year, long may it continue.

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posted

Nov. 14, 2009

time

9:40 a.m.

by

Sam

Wrap3 Website Launched
Papervision3D Site

Wrap3 work in the realms of digital art and the very latest in display technology. They create a virtual second skin which wraps around objects using multiple projection, motion graphics and tracking science. Omni worked with them to produce their brand identity together with a Papervision3D based animated website which reflected their brand, style and work in a functional and useable way.

View more of Wrap3.

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posted

Nov. 12, 2009

time

9:25 a.m.

by

John

Great Mac tweaks
Tweak your dock

Make 10.6's List Stacks look like Grid Stacks

To make this change on your Snow Leopard machine, open Terminal (in Applications -> Utilities) and enter these two commands, pressing Return after each one.

defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES

killall Dock

10.6 Metallic Gradient Effect on Mouse Over

defaults delete com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack

defaults write  com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean YES

killall Dock

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posted

Nov. 9, 2009

time

5:31 p.m.

by

Sam

NexStor Website Launch
1248 products

A speedy turn around, a slick new website refresh and a happy bunny for a client. NexStor, who specialise in Data Systems Integration, felt their website was in need of a refresh to keep up with a competitive market place and Omni were happy to oblige.

We built their original site and Content Management System (CMS) almost five years ago now but the CMS is still bug free and worked fine so we simply plugged straight into this and refreshed the design together with an update to the CSS and HTML code to ensure it was clean and W3C standards compliant.

We are also working with them on eNewsletters and ensuring that their website is well placed within Google searches for their core products.

View the NexStor website.

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