Our latest client site is launched today - Lennox Rods.
Lennox produce travel fishing rods to the highest quality and will make a bespoke, hand crafted specialist fishing rod for any type of fishing you plan on doing - Trout, Salmon, Blue Water and others.
I think I might have missed this somewhere over the last year but I love the intro to this skateboarding video. Directed by Spike Jonze with music from M83, it looks incredible and the music fits perfectly.
That final explosion was the most dangerous, apparently using napalm to create the effect.
More about Lakai (the company responsible) and the movie at the Lakai movie pages.
If you can get the DVD in the UK I’d like to see it - otherwise in the US You can see view it here.
You can’t drink just six apparently. So, this was thought to be a marketing plot for Cloverfield (see our 11808 update but now it’s appeared in Heroes and there are rumours of a Lost appearance this season.
This all looks like a bit of an in-joke to me but it’s all good fun. I haven’t been able to find those pictures of the Lost cast with Slusho’s and t-shirts yet, maybe it’s all building up to a massive Lost/Cloverfield/Heroes mashup?
Here are some of the Heroes cast with Slusho’s:
Pictures from Greg Beeman’s Heroes blog
Wikipedia has a bit more on Slusho and here’s the site that started it all Slusho!
Our latest site to go live is for a PR company based in Brighton: Liberate Media.
The site is a bespoke WordPress template and integration with the aim to show the company in a corporate but accessible and modern light. We hope you like it!
Web accessibility is one of those areas of web design that is vague, hard to understand and, to a lot of people, hard to implement. With the range of browsers, mobile devices and huge numbers of people searching the internet every day, how can you design an attractive, usable site that is also accessible to everyone?
The answer lies in how you work and how a new website design is formed, from the initial mockups and design through to templates, coding and the final, live site.
At Best Served Cold we start the design process with a knowledge of web accessibility and strict xHTML/CSS coding in mind. From the beginning of each website build we look at how the site will need to work with different technologies and what we can do to make those technologies accessible.
By using a system called semantic markup we ensure that each website is readable by all web browsers - even PDAs and mobile phones. This system of coding a website coupled with the strict use of xHTML and CSS gives our sites a great start towards full accessibility standards.
By coding to WAI guidelines we also give all our sites a headstart with SEO as many of the best practices used to optimise for search engines are also at the heart of a fully accessible website.
If you’d like to know more about accessibility please contact us. We are also available to consult on all aspects of web accessibility from initial design and code through to recommendations on existing websites.
Over the last 6 months we’ve been working a lot on WordPress sites - designing, templating and coding new sites and working with existing sites to integrate seamlessly. This site is WordPress based and we try to keep it up to date with the latest accessibility and xHTML/CSS standards - even if the news isn’t updated as often as we’d like!
We’ve noticed that there are a lot of WordPress sites that deal with themes and plugins but not many people talk about converting an existing design or bespoke solution into a WordPress template.
By working with a new design or integrating an existing website’s template into WordPress you end up learning a lot more about the background code than you would otherwise. With this experience we’ve found that WordPress can be used to power much larger and more complicated sites than just a simple blog.
With some judicious use of pages, categories and sub-categories and a bit of tweaking of the background code we are now able to design and build quite complicated, fully updateable sites with WordPress that are easy to navigate, accessible, use strict xHTML/CSS standards and can be updated very simply.
If you would like to know more or find out if we can do something similar for your site, please contact us
In 2006 Sebastian Errazuriz, the Chilean artist, created a piece of work called “The Tree”. Consisting of a 10 metre tall Magnolia tree the piece doesn’t sound too exciting until you realise it was planted at the centre of the Chilean national football stadium.
The tree was planted for one week and the stadium opened to the public. At the end of the installation a football match was played around the tree.
This is the sort of project that can make people smile, it reminds me of some of the better works that have appeared in the Tate Modern over the last few years - no need for art to be so stuffy and boring, it should be fun!
There are two new TV ads for World of Warcraft. They don’t make me want to play but they do make me realise how fantastic Mr T and William Shatner are.
Why isn’t Mr T on television anymore?
Now they just need to make some with the other members of the A-Team.
Everyone is turning into a blogoholic - even my Dad! Read his exciting language and news related word blog: Linguism.
Also, check out UK Temps if you haven’t already. It’s nearly ready to go live and it’s looking good!
Finally, another plug for one of our designs: 100% People are running a competition to get their forum kicking. Get over there to win!
Ever wanted to be in Star Trek? Of course you have! Now’s your chance, if you happen to be in Burbank, California on the 10th November and are “Ages 18-70, any ethnicity: to play Cadets: young, fresh-faced, Military types”
In particular they’re looking for: “Talent with interesting and unique facial features such as: long necks, small heads, extremely large heads, wide-set eyes, bug eyes, close-set eyes, large forehead, short upper lip, pronounced cheekbones, over- or undersized ears and/or nose, facial deformities, ultra plain-looking people, ultra perfect-looking people, pure wholesome looks, twins, triplets, emaciated talent, regally poised and postured talent, or other visually unique characteristics.”
If you’ve read previous news stories you’ll know that I’m a bit of a J J Abrams fan and having him direct this prequel to the Star Trek series means that this is a film I’m quite looking forward to. And the choices for the starring roles: Zachary Quinto (Sylar from Heroes), Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana (The Hulk), Chris Pine (Smokin’ Aces), Karl Urban (Lord of the Rings), Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead), Anton Yelchin (Charlie Barlett), Zoe Saldana (Vantage Point), John Cho (Harold and Kumar).
There might be a problem with having so many familiar faces as already familiar characters - they’re going to have to be very good to pull it off without the whole movie looking like a bad SNL Christmas Special sketch.
Our latest client site is launched today - Lennox Rods.
Lennox produce travel fishing rods to the highest quality and will make a bespoke, hand crafted specialist fishing rod for any type of fishing you plan on doing - Trout, Salmon, Blue Water and others.
I think I might have missed this somewhere over the last year but I love the intro to this skateboarding video. Directed by Spike Jonze with music from M83, it looks incredible and the music fits perfectly.
You can’t drink just six apparently. So, this was thought to be a marketing plot for Cloverfield (see our 11808 update but now it’s appeared in Heroes and there are rumours of a Lost appearance this season.
