HomeGrown Films

After five years of providing cost effective communication solutions to an array of clients in the UK and overseas, HomeGrown Films is closing it’s doors.
Managing Director Bart Hulley comments “We’ve actually had a very successful year and so, contrary to the industry trend, we are not closing as a result of financial difficulties. The [...]

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Our first all-french website has gone live. Eaux les Bains uses a french inferface version of Wordpress to drive the CMS. Unfortunatley there is no such thing as a French template file yet - so we’ve had to do a little bit of tweaking.
Here’s hoping the site does it’s job and pulls in [...]

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A fancy little update to the Ice Factor website for this seasons festivities.
The new splash page involves some Penguins larking about. Built in 3D and published using php-streaming.

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Here’s a site we recently provided the information design and layout work for. Many Thanks to the team at Littlehampton Book Services for making it happen, and of course to Hachette Children’s for their confidence in us. [visit website]

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The unfortunate thing about registering your details in the ‘Who is’ database, which is required by international law should you own a domain name, is that certain companies will use your details to send you junk.
One guilty party to this extent is the Domain Registry of America . These cowboys send mail (that is [...]

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Remarkably there are many small firms still out there whose marketing activities are either non-existant or entirely paper-based. Parvalux UK used to be one of those firms, but having recently realised that their return on investment (ROI) for trade advertising was unquantifiable while at the same time [relatively] expensive; they have opted to move [...]

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As the amount of content on the internet grows exponentially it is becoming increasingly difficult to search for and find information. I am becoming increasingly disillusioned with Google’s search engine, the results it posts are rarely as reliable as they once were - back in 2000.
Microsoft has just launched it’s rival product [...]

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Now, those of you have no grasp of French can relax, I have posted below an English translation of my last news item. This comes care of Worldlingo - the free online text translation service.
Although Worldlingo has it’s shortcomings (as you will see) it is a fantastic tool for translating short phrases [...]

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Je vois que le Wordpress est disponible pour la communauté francophone. Très bon.
Ils disent:
“WordPress est ce qu’il se fait de mieux en matière de moteur de blog.
Libre, ergonomique, respectueux des standards, il est également rapide à installer, simple à personnaliser et profite de nombreuses extensions et d’une communauté très active.
Grâce à [...]

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I have a contact at IBM who has had the chance to install and use the new Microsoft operating system. So I didn’t pass up the opportunity to gauge his thoughts on the supposed successor to Windows XP. “Well - it looks nicer” he said.

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