A Lidl Bit of Magic features a wagon load of recipes from them’z there chefs off the telly, Nick Nairn and Lesley Waters, including videos and interactive brochures, and all sorts of bits and bobs that’ll float your Yuletide boat. I’z be damned if it don’t!

We had the pleasure of the company and services of the very fine folk at Generator Films to conjure the magic of moving pictures and imagery. And they sure know how to shoot a bit of brownie – check out this little motion pictorial treat, it’s good enough to spread on your crumpet:

We didn’t stop there my app prodding chums. Our downloadable Lidl Christmas Mobile Phone App was developed totally in-house, without any help from our mothers. It includes clever little tools to help with Christmas cooking, like recipes, videos, cooking calculators, a shopping list feature, and a tiny, tiny bottle of gin to help the day pass…I jest thee. He he.

A shopping list on a phone you say? Yes. I suppose I do. The mobile app lets users select individual recipe items and add them to the shopping list, and then mark them off as they walk round store using the clever touch screen facility. Magic! Not really, a simple matter of a little dwarf dust is all.

You can also view Lesley Waters’ recipe videos right there on your little ol’phone, so you don’t even need to turn on your noisy ol’computer. And, the cooking calculators give you the times, quantities and conversions needed to make sure everything’s cooked just right and proper, so you hardly need bother.

A Lidl Bit of Magic is well and truly live, and the Lidl Christmas Mobile Phone App is available to download on site for iPhone, Android phones, and DwarfCom. For information on our Mobile App Development, visit our site and say “was’up”. Until the next time, farewell blud.

It’s a handy and convenient way to surprise a new mother and father with all the items they require for a new born child, tastefully packaged as a gift that’s both beautiful and practical.

You can choose from baby boy baskets and baby girl baskets, featuring clothes, thermometers, baby wipes, photo frames and albums, baby spoons and more, presented in charming natural wicker baskets.

You can even choose from a range of premature baby gifts, specially for those with little ones that just couldn’t wait to enter the world, featuring antibacterial and temperature regulating clothes and blankets.

Simply pick from the range of pre-selected baby gift baskets that come in a variety of sizes and prices to suit your requirements, or you can also select individual items from the gift category.

My Baby Basket strive to source and supply products that are both of quality and relevance – important considerations when it comes to celebrating the arrival of a newborn baby.

For more information on Magento development, please visit our site or call free on 0800 043 1040 for a chat about what we can do for you.

With the ever increasing popularity of smartphones like the iPhone 4, LG Prada, HTC Touch and the recent launch of the Windows Phone 7, the need for mobile apps and mobile accessible websites has risen faster than programmers can punch out code. Android, a cross platform, open source OS for smartphones is backed by Google and is the nearest thing the market has to a standardised format.

The development of large, full spanning screens and the increase in mobile internet access speeds via standards like 3G and the new 4G (set to sweep the mobile device market) has meant that real net access, large enough to deliver content in a usable format has become a reality.
So no more dodgy Google map printouts to find your way to the new tandoori – just follow your touch screen. But what it also means is that a wealth of tasks and applications can now be achieved on the move, with information moving from peoples’ desktops to their finger tips.

We’re currently in development of several new iPad applications, the details of which will be released very shortly. Until then it’s a secret, but do keep you eyes peeled for all the gossip. If you’d like any information on our mobile application development services, please get in contact for free on 0800 043 1040.

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.

The Pixel’s Lychee CMS is a new PHP system designed to be easy to setup and create and manage websites, with a simple to use WYSIWYG editor.

Designed specifically to manage our own content orientated website, TotalVideoGames.com, Lychee has been implemented specifically to cope with an ever changing content environment with a large archive of pages.

Most free to download Content Management Systems cover the basics of content management, offering only limited features and facilities – making them useful for smaller websites with a limited number of pages.

The advantage of Lychee to companies like NaturalMotion is that it can be used for large scale websites where content changes on a high volume basis – making it perfect for TotalVideoGames.com, NaturalMotion.com and more.

For more information on our Lychee CMS please give us a call on 0800 043 1040 or get in contact via The Pixel’s contact form.

Without further ado, let’s have a gander…

Homepage

The homepage features a picturesque overview of the entire fantasy land, with a cunningly handy signpost that’ll let us direct customers to all the wonderful services we offer. Fairies armed with pixel-dust will draw you into our splendid world of internet design and marketing wizardry, with enchanting SEO sonnets like cyber sirens. Do come in…

The Boat House

Other habitats include ‘The Boat House’. That rather nautical looking fellow stands in this humble abode producing expertly written product descriptions, whilst keeping a look out for other ingenious web developers lurking in dark and cursed cyber space – and shoots them with his cannon.

Balloon Station

Our beloved ‘Balloon Station’ stands proud as the hub of our land, guiding airships in safely, bringing in essential supplies for the web development and internet marketing journey ahead. Extra shipments of Google AdWord’s have been requested.

The Dark Tower

Ominous and domineering, ‘The Dark Tower’ commands a respect throughout this and other distant lands. Riddled with mystery and intrigue, tales of ghosts and legendary Magento development surround this fiery, dark turret. It’s also where we make our tea.

We hope you like the look of our new website and expertly produced concept artwork as much as we do. And if you’re not already, we hope you’ll soon be as excited as we are about The Pixel casting our spell over the web development market by creating a world where anything web related can happen. Keep your eyes on this space for the launch of the new website. You won’t regret it!

Please do give us a call on 0800 043 1040 or use The Pixel’s contact form to find out what we can make happen for you.

Why such a high conversion rate? Well our Clothing Widget lets you choose clothes from Play.com’s fabulous range, add them to your virtual wardrobe and then arrange them creatively on a mannequin to see what stylish outfit you’ve selected.

This type of facility allows users to combine different garments much like they would in a changing room in a shop. This in turn helps give the high street shops a run for their money, removing the need to leave the house – thus leading to a lot of people clicking ‘Buy’.

The flashy interface is created using…Flash, and the database using PHP. The main problem we faced when creating such a dynamic system is that all Play.com stock levels and prices are constantly changing based on what users are buying.

Our Clothing Widget automatically connects to the website to constantly update prices and stock, so all the items being browsed are available and display up-to-date prices.

So it really is as good as hitting the high street, and some might say (me) even better as you don’t have to waste time trawling the shops gagging for an overly priced latte.

If you like what you’ve read and think your company might benefit from our services, widgets or not, please take a look at our services pages on the right or just give us a shout from our contact page.

66% of users on the day were using Mozilla Firefox compared to only 8% using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. To put this in context (just in case you’re wondering), IE usual commands a 65% market share of the web in total, and Firefox usually around 26%*.

So considering IE normally beats Firefox by 39% globally, Firefox defeating IE by a massive 58% based on visiters to our website (mostly coming from online web design publication Smashing Magazine) shows clearly the difference in preference between those in the web development community, and those that are not.

In fact, IE was beaten by both Safari with 12% and Chrome with 9%, making it the 4th preferred choice by web techies.

So why the difference between web-heads and Joe public? Despite IE 8’s obvious increase in speed since version 7, Firefox’s JavaScript performance, expandability and customisation options seem to win over the design and development crowd.

These features are less likely to concern the casual surfer; IE’s brand recognition and tie-ins with other big software packages make it an easy, pre-installed solution for most.

*Statistics sourced from Wikipedia’s Usage Share of Web Browsers