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About me...

I am Zara Jones.

Production Manager of Coolhead Productions, specialising in Music , TV & Documentary. I live in Cardiff, having graduated in Media Production & Film in 2009 from AtRium School of Creative Industries. Currently, I am working on 'Saxon: Heavy Metal Thunder - The Movie' and have the honor of crediting myself as co-founder for upcoming Welsh co-working space, Indycube.

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Added by Zara Jones on February 24, 2010 at 11:01am — No Comments

New job site - Design Jobs Wales

After six months of searching I've finally found a new job but was very frustrated that there was no where to find design jobs in wales. The usual design job boards rarely have anything in wales and the generic job sites don't seem to have many design related jobs.

This week I decided to do something about it and set up http://designjobswales.co.uk

Posting and applying for jobs is completely free. I'll al

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Added by Steve Halford on February 20, 2010 at 3:36pm — 3 Comments

Dating site/events company

Currently working on my business plan to create a dating site that will be organizing, coordinating and hosting singles events throughout Wales.

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Added by paul bowen on February 17, 2010 at 12:02pm — No Comments

Hacio'r Iaith, Saturday 30th January 2010, Aberystwyth

Hacio’r Iaith is a new and exciting event where we will explore how technology applies to, around and through Cymraeg (the Welsh language). Subjects covered are expected to include localisation, internationalization, machine translation, APIs, mash-ups, education, mobile, blogging and other social media in Cymraeg. Hacio'r Iaith Saturday 30th January 2010 Parry Williams Building Penglais Campus Aberystwyth University Details: http://haciaith.com… Continue

Added by carl morris on January 6, 2010 at 11:24pm — No Comments

Hosting

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Added by Steve on December 28, 2009 at 5:05pm — No Comments

So what is 'Ignite Karaoke'?

When we came to announcing dates for Ignite Cardiff #3, along with new speakers a couple of our previous Ignite speakers got in touch saying they had such a good time before that they'd love to speak at Ignite again - but also wanted to give the newbees a chance. Not wanting to say no I discovered that a lot of Ignite's in the States run 'Ignite Karaoke' presentations, where I (as Ignite organiser) would put together a slide deck of random slides and our volunteers (in this case the lovely Mark… Continue

Added by Claire Scantlebury on October 14, 2009 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

Cardiff Design Festival set to Ignite Cardiff

Imagine that you're on stage in front of an audience of hundreds of people, doing a five-minute presentation using slides that automatically rotate every 15 seconds, whether you're ready or not. What would you do? What would you say? Could you stand the pressure? If you think that you could, Ignite is for you. Following the overwhelming success of the previous Ignite Cardiff events, Cardiff Design Festival thought that the night would make a great addition to their month of festivities in Octob… Continue

Added by Claire Scantlebury on September 16, 2009 at 12:31pm — No Comments

Nice Resource :)

Check Out Web Designer Depot for daily emails and some great ideas and pointers :) Continue

Added by vicmcd on August 26, 2009 at 7:51am — No Comments

Great Tips when Developing a Website

Minimize HTTP Requests from site 80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. Most of this time is tied up in downloading all the components in the page: images, stylesheets, scripts, Flash, etc. Reducing the number of components in turn reduces the number of HTTP requests required to render the page. This is the key to faster pages. One way to reduce the number of components in the page is to simplify the page’s d… Continue

Added by YODspica Ltd on August 23, 2009 at 3:15pm — No Comments

Creative code graduates: pitch your idea for TV Platforms to win an industry placement

Pitch your idea for TV Platforms to win an industry placement and attendance to a BBC workshop The BBC’s aim is to make available its TV and radio programming to everyone in the UK We are looking to find talented individuals who combine great software skills with creative flair and who want to work with world-class content enhanced by the latest technological developments The “creative code-swingers” will have skills in the latest web-programming code, including Flash, Java, XML and mo… Continue

Added by Greg Povey on August 10, 2009 at 11:35am — No Comments

Branding Talent: win £1,000 and potential commercial commission

Enter your seed idea, win £1,000 idea development money, and a potential commercial commission with Shop Direct! Just-b. Productions have teamed up with Aegis, NESTA and Shop Direct for Branding Talent #2 Shop Direct is a massive (and massively successful) home shopping organisation that has moved online in a big way over the last few years. They are currently in the process of preparing to launch a new fashion clothi… Continue

Added by Greg Povey on August 10, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Hey

Been a webdesigner for 7 years, curently running a few projects from cardiff including, my own hosting and development company http://digitalxtremes.co.uk innerbassradio.com and inspiremanagement.com to name a few, looking forward to meeting like minded people... Continue

Added by mike uncles on July 10, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

My hello here

I'm a sales copy writer by trade, but am looking into breaking into travel writing. Check out my sites below and tell if you think I've got what it takes -- but be warned, these sites are VERY "salesy"! lateral thigh trainer
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Added by Gorge Le on July 1, 2009 at 4:58pm — No Comments

Web Design - Getting your foot in the door!

This post was originally a reply to a comment Nadeem made on a few peoples walls. Basically if your just starting out in WebDesign here's a few tips to get you up and running. If your looking to further your knowledge try a subscription @ http://www.lynda.com they have very detailed tutorials on everything you need and for a relatively small price. Alternatively most collages and university's do short one semester courses in web design at higher and lower levels. If your looking for clients or… Continue

Added by Barry Madden on May 13, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Follow Me On Twitter! | @BarryMadden

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Added by Barry Madden on May 12, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Helping undergrads, grads and new businesses!

I match undergrads, grads and businesses together in unpaid work experience for mutual benefit! Email me for more info! tasters@cardiff.ac.uk and check out www.gowales.co.uk HELEN HARE Taster Manager GO Wales Continue

Added by HELEN HARE on May 11, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, in an interview by Veronica Belmont

The first question from Veronica Belmont was, what advice would Evan give to someone trying to build their own business startup. Evan's answer: The core thing would be just do something awesome. Try not to get caught up in the echo chamber. That is probably the toughest thing when you are trying to break out and do something original. A lot of things are evolutionary, and it is easy to get caught up on what the geek subculture thinks. There’s lots of valuable businesses that can be built there… Continue

Added by YODspica Ltd on May 1, 2009 at 1:27am — No Comments

How to create a best selling info product

Just about anyone who has spent some time in the internet marketing field understands how fantastically profitable information products can be. However, creating an information product and actually making money with that information product are two totally different things. Creating a profitable and successful information product can be quite a challenge to the average internet marketer. To actually be successful you need to find a topic with a lot of demand, research and write the material, cra… Continue

Added by daniel molano on April 30, 2009 at 12:58am — No Comments

How to be successful with google adwords

Pay per click traffic is one of the best means ever devised for delivering traffic to your website. Even if you have a very small budget to work with you can still use pay per click advertising to jumpstart your online marketing. There are many pay per click platforms available but the most popular is Google Adwords. Instead of offering placement in the standard search engine results, Google Adwords allows advertisers to place their ads in the right hand column of search results. Although Adwor… Continue

Added by daniel molano on April 30, 2009 at 12:56am — No Comments

A Confession of an Addict

I confess. I am an addict. Oops! Don’t be too harsh. Let me finish my confession first. I am addicted to reading books authored by one of today’s bests, Paulo Coelho.