The Media Collective

New Feature - Find our Office

13th July, 2007

The Media Collective Birds Eye View

We enjoy working in the peace and quiet of our leafy surroundings but occasionaly we find that customers have a bit of trouble finding us. With this in mind we’ve added a new feature to the site which uses the power of Google Maps to provide travel directions to our premises. We thought we’d take the traditional ‘Find Us’ map to the next level and provide customised directions from every single address in the UK!

So if you need to find our offices, go to the find us page, enter your postcode and generate a route from your premises to ours. As always with new features, any comments or feedback is welcome.

Back to School

3rd July, 2007

We are delighted to report that we have just won a significant contract to rebrand Etone Technology Language Vocational College, a leading school in the Warwickshire area.

How C.R.A.P is your design?

2nd July, 2007

The four golden rules of website design apparently. I’d never heard of this acronym before but apparently it’s a web design term first coined by Robin Williams (no not the actor) which stands for Contrast Repetition Alignment and Proximity. It may be just an attention grabbing construct but at least it’s easy to remember! And it may actually have some merit I think. Here’s how it breaks down:

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