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NuBlue go to Glastonbury 2009

July 10, 2009 at 11:31 am, Category: Business, Uncategorized, by robellis, 2 Comments

In which we discover just how many songs Bruce Springsteen has recorded.... Thanks to a special invite for yours truly from Carlsberg (other beers are available, just not at Glastonbury)...

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Dragon Boat Taming

June 10, 2009 at 11:40 am, Category: Business, by robellis, No Comments

May 31st 2009, 10am, Halton Army Training Camp, Somewhere near the River Lune....

The day has been exactly one month in the planning. Corporate hounding, public sponsorship, borrowing...

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Pixel Art

June 4, 2009 at 2:53 pm, Category: Featured, Photoshop, by Tom, 1 Comment

Recently i decided to have a dabble in Pixel art. I was very pleasantly surprised!... It's a really accessible form of skilled art because anyone with a basic paint program can have...

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NuBlue at Mage::Camp

May 1, 2009 at 4:35 pm, Category: Business, Featured, Web Development, Web Hosting, by Ewan, No Comments

We're not long back from attending the Internet World Exhibition at Earls Court in London, and have to say that it was a worthwhile (if tiring!) couple of days - particularly...

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Magento One Click Install Guide

April 21, 2009 at 4:06 pm, Category: Web Development, Web Hosting, by Luke, 4 Comments

Magento One Click Install Goes Live! We love Magento. It's powerful and it's free and you can use it to take over the world (this may be a lie). However...

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New Motion Tweening in FlashCS4

March 5, 2009 at 2:23 pm, Category: Unix, Web Development, by Luke, No Comments

Despite being a systems administrator for NuBlue, I've been a keen user of the Adobe Flash package since its Macromedia days. Flash has always provided a simple method for...

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The New Guy

January 22, 2009 at 5:35 pm, Category: Web Hosting, by Luke, 2 Comments

Starting a new job is always a scary thing, new people, new challenges, new parking space, thankfully my first two week with NuBlue were as fun as they were challenging. My...

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Create a newspaper clipping for an article page

January 5, 2009 at 10:51 am, Category: Uncategorized, by Lena, No Comments

A client recently requested a customised article page that would highlight particular articles as actual newspaper articles. What I thought would be a nightmare to produce was actually very simple. Read More »

Create glossy coloured text in Photoshop

November 9, 2008 at 11:47 am, Category: Photoshop, by Lena, 4 Comments

Whilst designing a simple email template, the use of this glossy coloured text gave my design the visual boost it needed. To create the effect firstly add your text to your document...

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Using the internet to help survive the recession

October 31, 2008 at 3:26 pm, Category: Business, General Computing, by Emily, 2 Comments

Banks are failing, stocks are falling and Governments around the world are finally admitting we are heading for a recession! So with all the doom and gloom in the...

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