Archive for March, 2009
TD-Aviation Website Launched
Quba are pleased to announce the launch of TD-Aviation’s new website. The private aviation firm which offers flexible leasing plans for businesses and individuals is based in Chorley, Lancashire.
The website can be seen at: www.td-aviation.co.uk.
Web Video: File Formats, Video Sizes and Compression
Over the last few months I’ve been learning more and more about publishing videos online and in this blog post I’ll share some of the things I’ve learnt along the way.
File Formats
The most common way of showing web video is to use Flash players which come as either two separate files (the player and then [...]
Google Orion Technology – an unfair advantage?
It was announced today by Google that they are rolling out changes to their search results to provide more context and help users find the best results. A company they acquired a few years ago, Orion, was originally behind this technology and in theory, it is a great idea. An example of this working well [...]
Quba on Google Street Maps
Google’s street mapping van has been past our offices and taken a rather nice picture of the front of the building.
http://tinyurl.com/cxwen9
We were admiring the technology Google have employed when we noticed three shady characters walking down the street:
http://tinyurl.com/Quba-Directors
Yes it’s Darren, Matt and Matthew off out to lunch, immortalised forever by clever technology.
Tweety Time: Quba have been Twittering
Firstly if you’re not aware of the social marketing phenomenon that Twitter is then I recommend you watch this short video:
Clear now? I hope so.
Twitter’s been the hot web brand on everybody’s lips – Stephen Fry is a huge Twitterer and recently Tweeted an afternoon he spent stuck in a lift! As well as being [...]
Beauty optional?
Recently I’ve been looking at the excellent mySociety.org network of websites in some detail, and I was struck by this sentence on their “about us” page:
Often people use the word ‘minimalism’ when describing our interfaces, and that’s not something we’d deny.
I interpret this as an admission that the mySociey.org team considers visual design to be [...]
