Posted by Mark McDermott on 15 July 2010 at 03:33 PM
Categories: Codegent News

Mark McDermott
Co-Founder

Can you believe it's already time for another instalment of codegent news for our monthly newsletter Third Thursday? In August we will try and get the camera to line up a bit better! Either that or it will just be Mark on screen (wearing the same jumper) with smart ass quips from David stage left. Thoughts? A Ferrari Team photo from Jon Nicholson - part of our new photography iPad App Other links referenced... Procuremen... more

Posted by Mark McDermott on 17 June 2010 at 04:32 PM
Categories: Codegent News

Mark McDermott
Co-Founder

The action packed second video instalment of codegent news for our monthly newsletter Third Thursday. Let us know what you think! The team do some Circus Skills training! Other links referenced... Our new HR referral scheme - Help us hire, get Cash! Stephen Fry tweets about Pownum Tepilo featured in HSBC Customer Newsletter Google UK adds house-hunting to Maps - The Guardian 10 of the Most Inspiring F... more

Posted by Nick Woodbine on 17 June 2010 at 04:10 PM
Categories: Codegent News

Nick Woodbine
Exec Producer

You may have seen on our site and in our collective tweets that we are on the hunt for two new people to join our happy throng. This time we are looking for a Senior Project Manager and a Mid-level Python or ColdFusion Developer for the London office. We are 6 years old now and in that time people have come and gone but in all of the hires we have made there has been one consistent pattern; we have found our best staff through our own netw... more

Posted by Mark McDermott on 20 May 2010 at 06:46 PM
Categories: Codegent News

Mark McDermott
Co-Founder

We are trying something new (and foolish?) this month for our Third Thursday newsletter by putting together a video of codegent news. Just click on the player above to get the lowdown on what the agency has been up to recently and let us know what you think! Our new office in Bangkok Other links referenced... Our latest web app - Dash New launch - Pownum New launch - Hoxton Hotel David Heinemeier Hansson pr... more

Posted by Karine Tonson la Tour on 19 May 2010 at 02:57 PM
Categories: Codegent News, Musings

Karine Tonson la Tour
Designer

There are 2 things that you want to avoid when a user lands on your site; firstly scaring them off with too much copy, secondly not giving them enough information to enable them to use your website or even understand what you do.  A video is a great compromise; it can explain your proposition in seconds whilst simultaneously increasing accessibility and engagement. Creating, producing and editing a professional quality video seems lik... more

Posted by Lisa Leitner on 14 May 2010 at 02:49 PM
Categories: Codegent News, Musings

Lisa Leitner
Project Manager

Guerilla Marketing campaign In a world where people have become almost completely de-sensitised to advertising in any traditional sense of the word, trying to infiltrate people's consciousness is an increasingly impossible task. Smart advertisers recognised that the way to combat this apathy was to get their message into places where people wouldn't expect to find them, making them impossible to ignore. This practice has become kno... more

Posted by Mark McDermott on 20 April 2010 at 12:30 PM
Categories: Codegent News, Web Apps, Twitbooth, Snapper

Mark McDermott
Co-Founder

Brizzly is a popular third-party Twitter & Facebook interface, built by Thing Labs, that launched in 2009. We caught up with them at the recent Chirp Twitter conference in San Francisco and demoed our Webcam Snapper application - which they loved! (a demo of the Snapper in our Twitbooth website is in the video above) So without further ado they bought the widget and integrated it straight into Brizzly. So far it has proved to be a hit ... more

Posted by Lisa Leitner on 15 April 2010 at 07:00 PM
Categories: Codegent News

Lisa Leitner
Project Manager

Understanding what your competitors are doing on the web and what they are offering to customers is crucial information for your business. It enables you to stay ahead of the game (or at the very least keep up). We are often asked to do this research on behalf of our clients and these are some of the key things that we look at: The visual design – Do the colours, fonts, lines and shapes your competitors use in their designs communic... more

Posted by David Hart on 03 March 2010 at 01:02 PM
Categories: Codegent News, Press, Awards, Tepilo

David Hart
Co-Founder

We did it again: this time for Tepilo. The company that we started last year with TV's Sarah Beeny has been ranked as a top start-up business by Smarta. A judging panel that included Dragons Den's Deborah Meaden and the Founder of Bebo, Michael Birch, has ranked our property selling website as one of its top 100 in their inaugural awards. According to the blurb: "The Smarta 100 is the ultimate business accolade, recogn... more

Posted by Nick Woodbine on 18 February 2010 at 05:14 PM
Categories: Codegent News, Site Launches, Mobile

Nick Woodbine
Exec Producer

We have just launched a lightweight mobile and smart phone friendly version of our website. codegent.com/mobile This is a classic WAP style site that has been designed to work across the broadest range of mobile devices that still dominate the marketplace. Our focus here has been on keeping the code limited and easy to navigate with minimal images to download. codegent.com/iphone We have also produced a sexier version that is o... more