Here comes the future!

With the development of 3D technology and the success of 3D films, most notably Avatar, it was almost inevitable that 3D would be developed for other digital platforms. 3D laptops are the latest step in the development of 3D technology, following on from blu-ray players and movies at the cinema. Acer and Asus have models in production, both of which are impressive bits of kit.

I went to see Avatar 3D at the cinema, and it was a pretty amazing experience, but with a lack of content to read, watch and interact with it seems as though 3D laptops still have a way to go. Check out Edward Baig’s article on USA Today for details on the current state of 3D laptop technology. There are plans to develop 3D websites, but its still early days. For us here at the Drawing Board this is very exciting and something we will be looking into! Watch this space.

Miller Brown Shop Fitting and Retail Design

We recently finished a site for Miller Brown, a Yorkshire based firm which specialise in shop fitting and retail design. They are very experienced with over 50 years in the business and do fittings for high-street stores, out-of-town retailers and golf retailers. It’s a great site so go check it out!

The Griffin has launched!

If you were expecting a story about some sort of mythical bird spreading its wings and flying off into the sunset then this post would be a bit of a surprise! But a good surprise all the same! We have just finished building a site for Steve Amor over at The Griffin Inn Pub Hotel in Newquay. The site focuses on promoting the business and generating bookings for accommodation, business functions and golf breaks.

Test Blog Post

This is a test post to show Tim how easy it is to create and maintain blog posts using Google Docs.

You can also add extra content and re-publish without having to first delete the original post.

Search Engine Optimisation

We are offering a new search engine optimisation service to enhance the number and quality of people visiting your site by improving your success in relevant organic search listings (Google etc). 


There have been some changes in this area recently and that is why it is even more important that certain things are done correctly.

Unlike some companies who will promise you the earth, give artificial guarantees and look for monthly fees, we simply have a one off fee to bring your site up to the latest SEO standards for content and structure and give you the highest chance of good rankings for relevant searches.

The fee depends on the size of your site but most can be optimised starting from as little as £180 depending on the size and scope of the job.

If you would like to find out more or discuss how we could enhance your search listing and increase visitors to your site, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Blogging with Google Docs

Testing out publishing to our blog using Google Docs!  Who'dve thought it could do that?!

With image support to boot!

Although Google Docs isn't a patch on Windows Live Writer as a blogging tool, there don't seem to be very many decent blogging clients for the Apple Mac platform - and fewer still which are free.  In lieu of a Windows Live Writer for Mac I think that Google Docs might be the solution we've been looking for to allow Mac users to write sexier posts!

There are a few limitations however such as:

• Although image resizing is available in the interface it just squashes the original image rather than resizing it into a smaller file. This could catch out some users.
• There is no facility to open posts previously posted to a blog by other users.
• No support for Alt tags on images.
• No support for tagging of posts, snippets and other familiar blog features (Google Docs is a word processor after all).

Overall, the WYSIWYG interface, rich text tools and good (albeit not perfect) support of images make this a tool which is significantly better than other free blogging tools on the Mac platform.

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Love geeks

Today Jake told me he had enabled “blacklisting support” on all our servers which to you an I means HUGELY less junk mail in all the inboxes for people who email host with us!!

Fantastic :)