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July 28, 2010

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9:27 a.m.

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John

Print Catalogue
Photographic Exhibition

Hot of the press and delivered just in time for the London opening of the International Print Exhibition we wanted to show off this year's catalogue.

It's now four years since we won the contract to design the coveted catalogue. This sits alongside a wide range of other projects we currently handle on behalf of The Royal Photographic Society.

It's a beautiful item, which includes some amazing images and will be for sale through The Society's online shop.

Well done to all the successful photographers who were selected for this years exhibition.

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posted

June 24, 2010

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3:14 p.m.

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Sam

World Wetland Network
Global Reach

We have just launched a couple of small scale, multi-lingual websites for WWN and WLI.

Both sites are using some fancy Google map API to feature Wetlands around the world and either allow the user to vote for their favourite (WWN) or view their facilities (WLI).

They may be small but they are perfectly formed.

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May 31, 2010

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7:09 p.m.

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Sam

Somerset Leisure
Active Mind and Body

We are currently in development of a slick new website for Somerset Leisure Centres and thought we would give you a sneak preview. 

They have only recently established independence from their previous council run position and Omni are walking them through the whole process making it as pain free and exciting as possible.

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posted

May 10, 2010

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10:03 a.m.

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Sam

A Life Model
A 15 year history

We are currently working a beautiful website which features a historic record of fifteen years worth of life modelling by one model. The website will include 1000's of paintings, sculptures and drawings from arists all over the country. 

A rare and stunning insight.

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posted

April 7, 2010

time

8:26 a.m.

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Sam

WWT Consulting
Website Launch

We have just launched a lovely new website for WWT Consulting. 

The site includes some subtle home page Flash animation which helps bring the website to life, reflecting the environmental work they do. The site also includes a sophisticated Google map API integration allowing users to search and drill down into their global projects.

It also features a multilingual option including Arabic, Spanish and Chinese, which had to include a complete reversal of the CSS to account for Arabic text reading from right to left.

WWT Consulting is the UK’s leading specialist wetland consultancy and provides species surveys, habitat creation, restoration, management and visitor centre design services to clients worldwide. The consultancy is based at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, the headquarters of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust to whom it returns all of its profits to.

Visit the WWT Consulting Website.

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posted

March 19, 2010

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1:06 p.m.

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Sam

Marque-It website Live
New and Used Cars

We have just launched the BETA website for Marque-it. As a launch offer they are currently offering FREE ad space for people selling their new or used, prestige and performance cars (as long as they are over £8000.00). The offer will only be open for the next couple of weeks until the website is well-populated, so feel free to send it around to anyone you think might be interested. The first 20 get to go onto the home page featured ads. There is also a TV commercial being launched next week, so it should get some considerable user figures very quickly (www.marque-it.com).

Omni produced the 'Marque-It' branding, website, together with supporting printed marketing materials and the featured home page game. (Full case study to follow).

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March 1, 2010

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12:58 p.m.

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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.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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posted

Jan. 31, 2010

time

3:07 p.m.

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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. 26, 2010

time

9:19 a.m.

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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. 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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