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Grand Theft Auto Animators Install Lychee CMS

News, Web Development by Duncan

We’ve just implemented our new open source CMS, Lychee, for animation specialists NaturalMotion, who now use the system for all article publication on their website.

NaturalMotion Ltd is the creator of Dynamic Motion Synthesis (DMS), a break-through in 3D character animation that’s been used on games like Grand Theft Auto IV and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Read More…

 

Top 10 Tips for Avoiding The Football Word Cup 2010

News, Tips & Tutorials by Blog Master

1. Don’t watch TV at 12.30pm, 3.00pm, 7.30pm, or at any other time in-between because football highlights, post match commentary or some sort of late night football chat show will be on.

2. Don’t go in any pub that has a England flag – it will be full of people that should be at work and that have skived-off for an entire month with a sore throat, to become partial alcoholics in the name of football. Read More…

 

Gymworld.co.uk Achieves Early Ecommerce Success

eCommerce by dan

Gymworld.co.uk – one of the latest websites we’ve built – has achieved a phenomenally fast level of success and has placed highly in the Google rankings within the website’s first month online.

Gymworld’s early prosperity is likely to be down to a number of different factors. The website’s high search engine placement has been achieved by a combination of an SEO friendly build and a dynamic content update strategy. Read More…

 

Akamai Deployed to Aid Google Search Update

News, Search Engine Optimisation by Steve

As ever at The Pixel we like to keep our finger permanently on the SEO pulse, so news of a search positioning shake-up from Google made our ears stand on end.

Google have revealed that website speed and performance are now going to be prominent factors in their search ranking algorithm that determines website search engine positioning. To accommodate these groundbreaking changes we’ve deployed the Akamai Content Delivery Network (CDN) to provide some of the fastest download speeds on the web. Read More…

 

The Pixel’s New Website: Revolutionary Web Design Imminent

News, Web Development, Website Design by Duncan

Here at The Pixel there have been some dramatic developments in regards to our new website. Our final concept art has materialised and it appears to resemble yet another phenomenally original and revolutionary piece of web innovation from our good, good selves. If we do say so ourselves.

Without further ado, let’s have a gander… Read More…

 

Fun4Kids Re-launch – Increasing Sales for Future Growth

News, eCommerce by Steve

The Pixel have helped Fun4Kids grow into a hugely successful online enterprise that’s now widely seen as the UK’s leading outdoor toy website. This is something we are greatly proud of. And now we have something else to be proud of – the new Fun4Kids website!

We’ve re-launched the Fun4Kids website with a brand new design, navigation and administration system to help accommodate the ever increasing sales demand from the buying public. We’ve taken the branding of the last website and created a brand new design to complement and expand upon that success. Read More…

 

The Pixel Move to New Offices

News by Blog Master

My dear little kilobyte conjuring weblets…Let me tell thee of my wholesome glee. I can hardly contain my gaiety, in such a time of joyous prosperity. For The Pixel have moved! Yes, believe me do, as what I say is…right.

Our new abode has walls, a ceiling, desks and even some kind of running water system that lets us wash indoors. It’s bliss. We don’t even need to batten down the hatches when the airship takes off. Tis’ solid and true. Read More…

 

The Pixel Blog Featured in Brilliant Web Designs Article

News, Website Design by Duncan

The Pixel’s website has this week featured in the article ‘40 Brilliantly Illustrated Web Designs’ by website Psdtuts+.

Psdtuts+ is a blog/Photoshop site that features some of the most useful and fascinating Photoshop and design articles on the web, and we’re very pleased they’ve noticed our blog site. Read More…

 

Play.com Oscars Widget Set to Boost DVD Sales

News, eCommerce by dan

It’s that Oscar time of the year again, when everyone gets dressed up and cries mascara into their Gucci. And to celebrate we’ve just launched the brand new Play.com Movie Awards Widget!

This snazzy little app lets the great movie going public scroll through the 2010 Oscar nominations in all the leading categories, view trailers and even vote thumbs-up or down for their favourite films. Who needs an awards committee? Read More…

 

Video Banners that sell Video Games for Play.com

News, Video Banners by Duncan

It’s not just DVDs and Blu-rays that benefit from our video banner services. We’ve just produced 3 new video game banners for Play.com to advertise the new releases: Aliens Vs Predator, Bioshock 2 and Dante’s Inferno.

Video games have slowly become as narrative driven as any movie or TV show, and most now feature an array of leading characters and a big fat storyline to boot – which lends itself perfectly to our video banner services. Read More…