http://www.lightbox.ie/blog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:14:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Continuing our ongoing relationship with Media Contact we have just launched a brand spanking new site for their suite of media related products and service. The company offers a searchable database application on a subscription and pay as you go model, they organise conferences and training sessions relating to the ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/media-contact-gets-a-facelift/ We're delighted that two of our sites have been featured in one of our favourite websites, SmashingMagazine.com. TotallyDublin.ie was featured in an October 2009 article "Showcase of Web Design in Ireland" by Lee Munroe and WhoseView.ie was featured in an article in February this year "Color Theory For Designers" by Cameron ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/smashing/ Celebrations will be taking place today all over the globe to mark Photoshop's 20th birthday. Photoshop has been, and still is, the staple diet of every designer. Check out the video below of the original Photoshop team (together again for the first time in over 18 years!) Happy Birthday Photoshop! http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/happy-20th-birthday-photoshop/ We are currently looking to hire a web developer to join the team. Working with our designers and software developers you will be responsible for the front end output of our client projects. We are looking for a motivated self starter with at least 2 years experience in a similar role. ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/web-developer-role-available/ Here is a link to a bit of media coverage from the Bizstartup.ie website relating to Whoseview.ie. http://www.bizstartup.ie/news/item/16264-social-review-website/ http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/social-review-website-start-up-stands-out/ This is the video created by Mediacontact.ie to support the Content is King conference that I was speaking at the other day. http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/content-is-king-conference-2009-video/ Unfortunately Joan has announced that he is heading back to Catlunya and as a result a developer/programmer role will become available at the end of January on the Lightbox team. The successful candidate should be experienced and proficient in the following technologies: Programming: Good knowledge of Java EE and PHP Knowledge of one of ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/we-are-hiring-developer-role-available/ The 2009 Golden Spider Awards were on last night and I am delighted to say we didn't come home empty handed. Between Lightbox and our clients we were shortlisted in 5 categories and Whoseview.ie managed to win the Best New Indigenous Website Award. This is a great honour for the team ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/whoseviewie-wins-best-new-indigenous-website-award-at-golden-spiders/ Growing up is Optional - A video produced by our friends in MediaContact.ie for the Content is King conference. http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/growing-up-is-optional-a-viral-video/ We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the fourth year in a row for the Best Web Design and Development Agency category at the Golden Spider Awards. Two of our clients are also in the frame for silverware on the night - Whoseview.ie and Mediacontact.ie. Whoseview are up for 3 ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/golden-spiders-shortlist-announced/ I will be giving a talk as part of the "Content is King" day organised by our friends in Media Contact on November 19th. Thankfully people won't just have to listen to me all day. There are lots of other interesting speakers that I hope will make the day memorable ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/content-is-king-how-to-create-exceptional-blogs-videos-and-podcasts/ We worked with our content management partners Terminal Four a couple of years ago to design the interface of the National Employment Rights Authority website. The following website of a business providing employment law advice in Ireland was brought to our attention this morning: This would seem to me to be quite ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/design-plagiarism-ceci-nest-pas-le-meme-site/ There's a reason that Seth Godin has a gazillion people reading his blog posts every day and why he has sold millions of copies of his books. Simple. He has good ideas and knows how to communicate them. His latest offering could (and should) torpedo the slew of "social media, buzz ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/social-media-consultancies-bewarebrands-in-public-goes-live/ The Irish Web Awards are upon us again. We were delighted to have been involved last year as a sponsor for the inaugural awards. What a refreshing experience. We tried to sponsor a category again this year but were told that if we or any of our clients wanted to ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/irish-web-awards-shortlist-announced/ The Whoseview.com site has now been up for over a month and the site is flying. Traffic to the site has been very healthy and people are engaging with the site on a daily basis, posting reviews and comments about all of their experiences in Dublin. During the first month we ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/whoseview-homepage-gets-a-makeover/ A thought for Friday http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/make-me-a-millionaire/ You can't open your email/browser/feed reader/blog these days without being confronted by someone trying to flog you social media services, social media courses, social media marketing advice etc. Companies are popping up all over the place charging you money to teach you how to  use Facebook or set up a ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/social-media-weve-been-doing-it-for-years/ http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/social-media-is-here-to-stay/ Having been a judge for the Digital Media Awards in 2009 I decided we should take it one step further and provide our services to redesign the Digital Media Awards website. We felt that previous iterations of the Digital Media Awards website didn't do the event justice and wanted to ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/lightbox-team-up-with-the-digital-media-awards/ The Tuesday Push has been good to Whoseview this week and a number of people have written about the site. Today was the turn of Silicon Republic which we hope will get the site viewed by a more mainstream audience. All the comments and opinions that we have been reading ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/tuesday-push-helping-whoseview-get-exposure/ I am sure that the irony of this post will not be lost on you since it is clear that we have not been taking our own medicine over the last few months. Our blog/news feed is hopelessly out of date since we launched our new website and the excuse we have been giving ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/why-is-maintaining-your-blog-important/ Well it's been a while coming but we are delighted  to announce the launch of Lightbox Mark 4 today. We have concentrated on providing more detailed information on the projects we have worked on recently to give clients and prospective clients a better understanding of what we do and how we ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/lightbox-launch-new-website/ Our lead designer Tony O'Donohoe is up for the prestigious IIA Net Visionary Awards again in the Web Designer Excellence category. We're delighted that Tony has made it to the final for the second year running - here's hoping he will go all the way this time and bring home ... http://www.lightbox.ie/blog/tony-up-for-net-visionary-design-excellence-award-again/