New look for Morwellham Quay

Posted on June 2008 in Latest websites

Plymouth web design agency Four Degrees West have launched the latest website for Morwellham Quay.

The website is part of an ambitious restoration project at Morwellham Quay in the Tamar Valley.

Four Degrees West developed a content management system to enable them to maintain the entire content of the site.

Desperate SEO company

Posted on June 2008 in Articles

Here’s a new one…
We get a call from an SEO company saying our website was sending out viruses, we got chatting, and it didn’t take me long before I realised this was another obvious scam to find out information about our company.

That same day a customer of Four Degrees West called to say that they had received a telephone call saying that I had recommended the SEO company. The SEO company obviously mentioned the fact that they had spoken to me!

The SEO business seems like a desperate one, I’ve yet to hear about a successful one, and if there was such a company I’m sure Google would change an algorithm or two!

For the record we would never recommend an SEO company.

Our Internet marketing is based on an ethical approach, we can’t guarantee anything as we don’t have a share in Google, so unless Google call you up with some SEO promises be very careful before giving away any money.

Andy

It’s A Kind Of Magic (Software That Is!)

Posted on June 2008 in News

I’ve used the software development tool Magic (produced by Magic Software Enterprises since the early 90s at least) since 1999 when my previous company brought it in due to the recommendation of three of the senior developers (of which I was one). It’s still very much in use there today with about 350 staff members using it every day. My previous company used COBOL at the time we acquired it and needed a fast development tool that would run on VMS. Very fast and effective it is too. Blisteringly fast for writing applications that run on Windows (and soon fantastic for the web too - see below). Light years ahead of COBOL. This is already making me sound old, so before I get into punched cards and winchester drives, let me move on.

Yesterday we met with Elena of Magic Software, who incidentally, are based in Israel and have a large office in Bracknell, which I’ve visited a few times. We went for a great lunch at Tanners and then discussed business opportunities…

Magic Software have a very powerful enterprise application integration (EAI) and business process management (BPM) tool called iBolt (remember the name). Effective use of iBolt can save a company thousands and implementation timescales can be very short. Please contact me at Four Degrees West if you want to know more.

Four Degrees West hope to forge a strong business relationship with Magic Software as a Magic Solution Provider (MSP) for the South West. They are just about to launch a new product which will provide very strong capabilities for building robust, secure and extensive business applications which will run over the internet.

“Magic Software’s new upcoming Software-as-as-Service (SaaS) platform, Advanced XML handling, Web & mobile, as well as many more technologies that Magic plans to launch in the near future”.

…I’ve put the next Magic User Group conference in my diary!

Dave.