So if you are in Newport Pagnell, Milton Keynes, or any of the surrounding areas and are looking for an honest and reliable London tech savvy web developer, then I am your man! Please do contact me though the web site for more details of how I can help you realise your web goals.

Nomad Media Channels

We originally built the Nomad Media web site and as part of the ‘Phase 2′ of this project we were tasked to create the Nomad Channels. The Nomad Channels are a series of bespoke Channels/Sites to deliver Audio, Video, Images and Documents to clients and users worldwide.

The site was based around a starting point from the main Nomad site and the resultant system allows Nomad to create highly advanced and completely bespoke Channels with content that is completely managed in-house. Each Channel uniquely serves up embedded Vimeo Video and downloads that are flexible and fully monitored with stats built in to the system. The front-end boasts individual Post and Page full-size background images as well as extensive jQuery scripting and effects. Each Channel also has it’s own dedicated Dashboard and extensive suite of Styling and Layout Options as well as all the benefits of a WordPress site.

This is bar far our most advanced and flexible site to date, taking WordPress to levels with are seldom (if ever) seen.

Tehnology

• WordPress MS, Extended
• CMS
• Html 5
• CSS
• jQuery
• Javascript
• SEO
• Php/MySQL

Add this to your site’s functions.php file:-

/*----------------------------------------------------------------
 *  CUSTOMISE ADMIN AREA
 *---------------------------------------------------------------*/

function customAdmin() {
    $url = get_settings('siteurl');
    $url = $url . '/wp-content/themes/your-theme-name/styles/admin.css';
    echo '<!-- custom admin css -->

          <!-- /end custom adming css -->';
}
add_action('admin_head', 'customAdmin');

Replace ‘your-theme-name’ with your actual theme name and now simply create a ‘styles’ directory in your theme if you haven’t already got one and then add a css file called admin.css. All you now have to do is add your CSS styles in the admin.css file as norma – So Easy!

What if I’m using WordPress Multisite?

We’ve got you covered. Just change ‘site url’ on line 06 to ‘network_home_url‘.

Nomad Media

“Nomad is an independent production house, dedicated to producing the highest quality production content” and they have just undergone a major rebrand by ‘Branding by Garden‘ (their site recently built by Slick Media). As part of our continued collaboration with Branding by Garden we were pivitably involved in the development and build of the new Nomad Media web site.

As always we like to push the boundaries of WordPress and coding and the site boasts a unique and highly configurable template and is loaded with jQuery goodness. The client is able to manage all aspects of layout, colour and content via a fully fledged Content Management System and an advanced custom Options panel.

Notable on this site is the unique home page Gallery, full sized Background Images and also the amazing responsive layouts on ‘the Den‘.

We are now working hard on the Nomad ‘Channels’ which are coming your way very soon.

Tehnology

• WordPress, Extended
• CMS
• Html 5
• CSS
• jQuery
• Javascript
• SEO
• Php/MySQL

You must be able to demonstrate a high level of knowledge of WordPress as a fully fledged CMS and be familiar with all aspects of a WordPress. We will require past projects and work to substantiate your position as a skilled ddevloper in this field.

Other useful skills include knowledge of Fireworks or Photoshop and an active knowledge of jQuery.

Ability to work under fixed timelines.

Initially work would be conducted on a Freelance basis.

Apply to Glenn on jobs@slickmedia.co.uk

City Opticians full E-Commerce Store

This is our second and latest web site for City Opticians and this time we wen’t all out with a full E-Commerce store. It boasts a fully fledged Content Management System (CMS) which allows City Opticians to manage all the content of the site, sliders, testimonials, news and products which are accessible full a full E-Commerce system.

This online store has a highly adaptable interface and includes extended products sale items, variations, multiple product images, related products and quick checkout (and much more). The system is fully integrated with secure payments which are processed via SagePay.

Tehnology

• E-Commerce
• WordPress
• Html
• CSS
• Php/MySQL
• CMS
• Javascript
• SEO

Branding by Garden – UK, UAE and International Branding Agency

Branding by Garden is the very exciting new Branding Agency that becomes the mother to the existing and very successful branding agency RF Branding. With offices in the UK and the UAE RF Branding already boasts an exceptional client list. With the launch of the new Brand ‘Branding by Garden’ the company will be hitting new levels in 2012.

Here at Slick Media we have a long standing relationship with this agency and were thrilled to continue this with the build of the client’s new web site for their own new brand ‘Branding by Garden’. One great thing about this business interaction is that both companies are always striving to push the envelope of what is possible and with this site we tried (and succeeded) a whole host of things that had either never been done before, or certainly not in the way that we did it. Indeed this site pushes the limits of WordPress to new levels with a highly advanced and fully loaded CMS and tons of cutting edge jQuery techniques to create an immersive and conceptional unique site.

Technology

• CMS on WordPress
• Full Size Image Galleries
• Unique Scrolling Galleries
• Advanced screen positioned elements
• XHTML
• CSS
• Php/MySQL
• jQuery

jQuery LocalScroll & jQuery ScrollTo

We aren’t going to go into loads of detail on the scroll as it’s covered fully here:-

http://flesler.blogspot.com/2007/10/jquerylocalscroll-10.html

Basically with this excellent jQuery script you can scroll any element on a page or within a div. We like the ability to scroll the body as it performs our anchor text replacement beautifully. However if you are new to jQuery you’ll probably find the instructions on the project page rather complicated and so we’ve got together a demo which you can use as the basis of your projects. It gives examples of how you can scroll body content with a jQuery anchor div and also how to scroll across content within a specific div.

Click for Demo

The mobile web is growing at a phenomenal pace, and is forecast to overtake the desktop web in 2014. In other words, more users will access the Internet using a mobile phone rather than a PC for the first time.

Approximately 900 million people currently access the web with mobile phones, compared to 1.4 billion desktop Internet users. In 2014, mobile web users will outpace desktop users (approximately 1.7 billion mobile users to approximately 1.65 billion desktop users). By 2015, the number of mobile web users is expected to grow to 2 billion.

Assuming an annual growth rate of about 2 percent annually between 2010 and 2015 in cell phone subscriptions (77 percent of the world’s population will have cell phone subscriptions in 2010 and 87 percent will have subscriptions in 2015), about 6.35 billion people worldwide will have a mobile phone subscription and approximately 1 out of 3 subscribers(or 2 billion out of 6.35 billion) will be accessing the Internet on mobile phones. (Source: Wikimedia)

And according to the August, 2011 edition of eMarketer, 33 percent of mobile users are looking to access local content relevant to their GPS positioned location.

Is Your Website Ready?

So, what does all of this mean to you? It means more people than ever will be viewing your website through a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet computer, via a wireless network. It also means that if you want to survive and thrive, you have to adjust and adapt, and make your website mobile web friendly. The good news is, it’s easier than you think.

“Within the Alexa top 1,000 sites, 40.1 percent of all sites are mobile-friendly. These sites represent the world’s most popular web properties, like Google, Facebook and Yahoo!

Beyond the top 1,000, mobile friendliness still holds strong but is not yet as widespread. Of the top 10,000 Alexa sites, 29.7 percent perform well on mobiles. Once the input data is broadened to include the top 500,000 sites, the total number of mobile-friendly sites drops to 19.3 percent.” (Source: mobiThinking.com)

If you haven’t already done so, the very first thing you need to do is bring your website up to speed visually. In other words, you want to make sure that users of mobile devices can view your site optimally.

The quickest and easiest way to do this is to run your site through the MobiReady online testing site. This is a free service that evaluates mobile-readiness using industry best practices & standards.

The free report provides both a score (from 1 to 5) and in-depth analysis of pages to determine how well your site performs on a mobile device. There are also other tools that will allow you to test your site for mobile readiness. In fact, here are 10 Excellent Tools for Testing Your Site on Mobile Devices.

Personally, I have serious doubts about the accuracy of these types of testing tools. For example, I ran my site through MobiReady, and it gave my site a 2 out of 5 score which, according to their analysis is bad. I got the exact same score before and after I mobil-optimized my site.

Here’s the problem: I’ve had many friends and colleagues of mine, all with different makes and models of smartphones, on a variety of platforms, tell me that my site looks just fine on their phones. So while testing tools may be a useful resource, the true litmus test is what users of mobile devices are seeing – so be sure to ask them.

That being said, there ARE things you can do to mobile-optimize your website.

How To Make Your Website Mobile Compatible

1. Have a fast-loading site. Chances are, most mobile-web users who are using their phones to access the Internet are using a slower 3G connection. You can help these users out by making sure your website code is clean, which will not only make for a faster-loading site, but faster downloads as well.

2. Don’t use flash. Not all mobile devices can see flash? Personally, I’m not a huge fan of flash sites anyway. But if you absolutely, positively have to have a flash site, be both smart and considerate. Make sure you have an alternate HTML version of your site as well.

3. Have a clean, easy to navigate website. Remember, mobile users are viewing your site on a tiny little screen. In addition, there is no mouse and not all mobile devices are equipped with a touch screen. So don’t make it harder for mobile users to view or utilize your site than it needs to be. Clean up the clutter and streamline your content. Simplify, simplify, simplify. If you keep it simple, your site will be user-friendly for everybody.

4. Use HTML phone numbers. Don’t make mobile users have to type in your phone number. Use HTML so that they can simply click to dial the number.

5. Avoid horizontal scrolling. Mobile users prefer to scroll vertically as opposed to horizontally. It’s easier and less of a hassle for them. Always create your content as a single column of text that wraps for mobile users.

6. Use images sparingly. As I mentioned earlier, most mobile users are using a slower 3G connection. As a result, heavier images can take forever to load. To avoid this problem, you should use images sparingly on your website. But if you do choose to use images, they should be lighter-weight jpeg, gif or png format. Also, make sure to compress your images to avoid zooming.

7. Voice Search. Google’s Voice Search on smartphones, has increased voice search usage by approximately 600% in the past year. Since mobile devices don’t have a traditional keyboard like a PC or laptop, voice search makes searching quicker and easier for smartphone users. So you should definitely keep an eye on this trend for SEO purposes. Bear in mind, people tend to search differently when speaking as opposed to typing. For example, while you might type-search “best virtual assistants,” you might voice-search “what are the best virtual assistant services?” Again, it’s a trend you should keep an eye on.

From original article by: David Jackson