<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><!-- ckey="5EC0D2B2" --><channel><title>digitl.co.uk blog</title><link>http://www.digitl.co.uk/blog/</link><description>All the latest tom-foolery from digitl.co.uk</description><image /><copyright>Created by digitl http://www.digitl.co.uk/</copyright><item><title>Developing for the Doonhamers</title><description><![CDATA[<p>As Queen of the South prepare for their first ever Scottish Cup Final, we are delighted to be working hard on the new Doonhamers website. We&#39;re working on a fresh new design for the site, taking across the very best of the existing site and putting it into a fresh new design which rightly reflects the status of a Scottish Cup Finalist team.</p><p>The new site will feature all the usual Digitl refinements, with advanced blogging, latest news and photo galleries, media integration and a range of football-friendly features which will bring a whole new dimension to the club&#39;s online profile.</p><br /><a href="/blog/2008/04/developing-for-the-doonhamers.asp" title="Developing for the Doonhamers"><img src="http://www.digitl.co.uk/assets/images/1342008152954_thumb.jpg" alt="" style="margin: 0px;width: 160px;height: 84px;border:none;;padding:3px;" height="84" width="160" /></a>
<br/><br/>Posted by Kit Allen in Digitl News]]></description><link>http://www.digitl.co.uk/blog/2008/04/developing-for-the-doonhamers.asp</link><pubDate>2008-04-13T14:24:00+01:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Leader of the Pack?</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.fiveofclubs.co.uk/" title="Rally Championship" target="_blank">Five of Clubs Rally Championship</a> site is the information centre for the coming together of 5 South West Scotland Rally Car Clubs to promote a class based championship that any car in any class could win overall.<br /><br />The site is updated by members of the club and promoted by community businesses and organisations.</p><p>A straightforward out-of-the-box digitl CMS website with an image gallery on each page made available. Have you ever found a way to wrap a link around a block level element in HTML still get validated? <br /></p>  <br /><a href="/blog/2008/03/leader-of-the-pack-.asp" title="Leader of the Pack?"><img src="http://www.digitl.co.uk/assets/images/2432008101710_thumb.jpg" alt="Five of Clubs Rally Championship" style="margin: 0px;width: 160px;height: 98px;border:none;;padding:3px;" height="98" width="160" /></a>
<br/><br/>Posted by Stephen Thompson in Web Development]]></description><link>http://www.digitl.co.uk/blog/2008/03/leader-of-the-pack-.asp</link><pubDate>2008-03-24T10:17:00+01:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Don't Be Accused of Getting Rusty</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Recently online is the revamped E-Teq website, a long standing client from the manufacturing sector in Dumfries and Galloway based in Dalbeattie.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.e-teq.co.uk" title="Stainless Steel Catering equipment" target="_blank">Stainless Steel catering equipment</a> has been a developing focus for the local company and the new design for the website captures this while keeping the strong iconic elements of the original design.</p><p>Featuring the revised digitl CMS, the website has a built in google sitemap generator to assist search engines indexing all the pages of the site. There is a lot of information throughout the site on several subjects relating to stainless steel fabrication.  </p><p>&nbsp;</p>  <br /><a href="/blog/2008/03/don-t-be-accused-of-getting-rusty.asp" title="Don't Be Accused of Getting Rusty"><img src="http://www.digitl.co.uk/assets/images/53200811261_thumb.jpg" alt="E-Teq Stainless Steel Dalbeattie" style="margin: 0px;width: 160px;height: 100px;border:none;;padding:3px;" height="100" width="160" /></a>
<br/><br/>Posted by Stephen Thompson in Web Development]]></description><link>http://www.digitl.co.uk/blog/2008/03/don-t-be-accused-of-getting-rusty.asp</link><pubDate>2008-03-05T11:26:00+01:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Project Developer Wanted</title><description><![CDATA[<p>As part of Digitl&#39;s continuing expansion, we currently require a Project Developer to work with a key client on the development and administration of their website from our offices in Dumfries.<br /><br />The successful applicant will have a background in ASP-based web development and will have experience with the administration of Windows IIS server systems. Experience with CSS, XHTML and MySQL will be necessary. A basic working knowledge of Photoshop, video (encoding and editing with Final Cut Pro) and Flash may also be advantageous, although not necessarily essential.<br /><br />Full details can be found here: <a href="http://www.digitl.co.uk/jobs">www.digitl.co.uk/jobs</a>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>  <br /><a href="/blog/2008/02/project-developer-wanted.asp" title="Project Developer Wanted"><img src="http://www.digitl.co.uk/assets/images/1922008153015_thumb.jpg" alt="Digitl is recruiting!" style="margin: 0px;width: 200px;height: 106px;border:none;;padding:3px;" height="106" width="200" /></a>
<br/><br/>Posted by Kit Allen in Digitl News]]></description><link>http://www.digitl.co.uk/blog/2008/02/project-developer-wanted.asp</link><pubDate>2008-02-19T15:46:00+01:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Local Hotel Inn Launches Website</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.criffel-inn.co.uk" title="Criffel Inn - Dumfries Hotels" target="_blank">Criffel Inn</a> website was designed using photoshop and photographs we took on location in New Abbey. Once the client was happy with the design our development team encoded the elements of the still image mock up to display correctly in website format.</p><p>We have introduced a more systematic checking system to ensure our websites meet our quality standards as there are numerous cross-browser and behaviour issues that must be addressed before launch.</p><p>The client supplied the content and we spent some time formatting this before tagging and submitting the site to search engines and relevant directory sites. This normally helps our new websites get indexed by the major search engines sooner, which benefits our clients.</p><p>A pleasing feature of the homepage is the flash image header which cycles through some of the high quality images we captured during content acquisition. </p>   <br /><a href="/blog/2008/02/local-hotel-inn-launches-website.asp" title="Local Hotel Inn Launches Website"><img src="http://www.digitl.co.uk/assets/images/622008122510_thumb.jpg" alt="Criffel Inn - New Abbey" style="margin: 0px;width: 160px;height: 114px;border:none;;padding:3px;" height="114" width="160" /></a>
<br/><br/>Posted by Stephen Thompson in Web Development]]></description><link>http://www.digitl.co.uk/blog/2008/02/local-hotel-inn-launches-website.asp</link><pubDate>2008-02-06T12:12:00+01:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Traditional Homestyle Baking</title><description><![CDATA[<p>One of my favourite local producers, <a href="http://www.irvingsbakery.co.uk" title="Irvings Homestyle Bakery" target="_blank">Irvings Bakery</a>, have allowed us to develop their first online presence. I found myself salivating every time I was confronted with images of Gypsy Creams, Millionaire Shortbread, and their award winning Perkins biscuits.</p><p>The site is another development of the Digitl in-house listings mod which is becoming more central to much of our website work. The mod is becoming more robust and flexible with each outing so should be a stalwart over 2008.</p><p>Anyway, back to <a href="http://www.irvingsbakery.co.uk/output/biscuits.asp" title="Lovely Biscuits" target="_blank">biscuits</a> and <a href="http://www.irvingsbakery.co.uk/output/tray_bakes_slices.asp" title="Sweet Sweet Tray Bakes" target="_blank">tray bakes</a>. I think a few product samples should be obligatory for the development team in projects like this! </p>  <br /><a href="/blog/2008/01/traditional-homestyle-baking.asp" title="Traditional Homestyle Baking"><img src="http://www.digitl.co.uk/assets/images/3012008152451_thumb.jpg" alt="Irvings Homestyle Bakery" style="margin: 0px;width: 160px;height: 100px;border:none;;padding:3px;" height="100" width="160" /></a>
<br/><br/>Posted by Stephen Thompson in Web Development]]></description><link>http://www.digitl.co.uk/blog/2008/01/traditional-homestyle-baking.asp</link><pubDate>2008-01-30T15:25:00+01:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Branding for the New Year</title><description><![CDATA[<p>The Wright Group has commissioned Digitl for 2008 to consolidate its web presence and build on recent web successes, the <a href="http://www.dryfesdalehotel.co.uk" title="Dryfesdale Hotel Lockerbie" target="_blank">Dryfesdale Hotel</a> and <a href="http://www.moffathouse.co.uk" title="Moffat House Hotel" target="_blank">Moffat House Hotel</a> websites. Both feature online booking systems (<a href="http://www.guestregister.co.uk" target="_blank" title="Guest Register Hotel Booking system">GuestRegister</a>) which are being updated to our new GR3 system.</p><p>As always there is a balance between development time and the timely completion of projects but with Wright Group we have an ongoing relationship which helps us learn more about the unique needs of the client and how best to achieve success for them.</p><p>We are creating a library of virtual tours in Flash for both websites and the <a href="http://www.hotelweddings.co.uk" title="Hotel wedding venues" target="_blank">hotelweddings.co.uk</a> directory now features both wedding venues to pilot the launch of this fledgling site. </p><p>&nbsp;</p>    <br /><a href="/blog/2008/01/branding-for-the-new-year.asp" title="Branding for the New Year"><img src="http://www.digitl.co.uk/assets/images/412008123840_thumb.jpg" alt="hotel weddings" style="margin: 0px;width: 160px;height: 79px;border:none;;padding:3px;" height="79" width="160" /></a>
<br/><br/>Posted by Stephen Thompson in Digitl News]]></description><link>http://www.digitl.co.uk/blog/2008/01/branding-for-the-new-year.asp</link><pubDate>2008-01-04T12:28:00+01:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Digitl 2008</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Digitl are back to work this morning. We hope you had a good festive season - we&#39;re back to doing what we do best, with the usual variety of projects on the books for Spring 2008. </p><p>We&#39;re working internally on some excellent new apps which will be being released in due course - we can&#39;t tell you now because it&#39;ll spoil the surprise...And check back soon for our 2008 showreel, being cut this month!</p><p>&nbsp;</p> <br /><br/><br/>Posted by Kit Allen in Digitl News]]></description><link>http://www.digitl.co.uk/blog/2008/01/digitl-2008.asp</link><pubDate>2008-01-02T09:00:00+01:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Merry Christmas from Digitl</title><description><![CDATA[<p>We&#39;re almost ready to take a break for the festive season here at Digitl. Another hectic month has been and gone - we&#39;ve just finished up updated sites for the <a href="http://www.dryfesdalehotel.co.uk" target="_blank">Dryfesdale </a>and <a href="http://www.moffathouse.co.uk" target="_blank">Moffat House</a> Hotels (check the Flash virtual tours!), <a href="http://www.hotelweddings.co.uk" title="Hotel Weddings in Dumfries and Galloway" target="_blank">HotelWeddings</a>, and new <a href="http://comlongon.com/output/video.asp" target="_blank">video</a> and <a href="http://comlongon.com/output/comlongon_band.asp" target="_blank">bespoke content</a> for Comlongon Castle, and, coming soon, a new site with integrated booking for <a href="http://www.kippfordholidaypark.co.uk" target="_blank">Kippford Holiday Park</a> - amongst other work. </p><p>We are closing for the holidays on Friday 21st December, and opening again on Wednesday 2nd January. During this time, you can contact us for urgent support issues by phoning the number on the Digitl answerphone.</p><p>We wish all our clients - past, present and future - all the best for Christmas and the New Year - see you in 2008!  </p>    <br /><a href="/blog/2007/12/merry-christmas-from-digitl.asp" title="Merry Christmas from Digitl"><img src="http://www.digitl.co.uk/assets/images/20122007134913_thumb.jpg" alt="Merry Christmas from Digitl" style="margin: 0px;width: 160px;height: 111px;border:none;;padding:3px;" height="111" width="160" /></a>
<br/><br/>Posted by Kit Allen in Digitl News]]></description><link>http://www.digitl.co.uk/blog/2007/12/merry-christmas-from-digitl.asp</link><pubDate>2007-12-20T13:51:00+01:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Craigbittern Self Catering Cottage</title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Craigbittern Cottage website. We have installed a sweet offline booking system here that includes self catering availability dates and even send the web user confirmation with the terms and conditions included in the email.</p><p>This <a href="http://www.craigbitterncottage.co.uk/" title="Self Catering Cottage Holidays" target="_blank">self catering cottage</a> is annexed to the house featured in the image, a very interesting property in Dumfries and Galloway, nestled on the Solway Coast at Sandyhills beach.</p><p>The project also served as a good first run for our new photography kit, based around the brand new <a href="http://www.canon.co.uk/eos40d/" title="Canon official website" target="_blank">Canon 40d</a> digital SLR. It&#39;s a lovely bit of equipment, which we&#39;re really enjoying getting to grips with - you can see the results at the <a href="http://www.craigbitterncottage.co.uk/output/home.asp" target="_blank">Craigbittern</a> website. </p>   <br /><a href="/blog/2007/11/craigbittern-self-catering-cottage.asp" title="Craigbittern Self Catering Cottage"><img src="http://www.digitl.co.uk/assets/images/2311200717538_thumb.jpg" alt="Craigbittern Self Catering Cottage Holidays" style="margin: 0px;width: 160px;height: 101px;border:none;;padding:3px;" height="101" width="160" /></a>
<br/><br/>Posted by Stephen Thompson in Web Development]]></description><link>http://www.digitl.co.uk/blog/2007/11/craigbittern-self-catering-cottage.asp</link><pubDate>2007-11-23T17:05:00+01:00</pubDate></item></channel></rss>