Sticking your tongue out
Designers seem to love these:

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Tags: css, design
Behind our jukebox
If you take on Kyan as a client you’ll soon be aware that we love our music in the office.
We used to use a 3rd party music player, but decided a few years ago to build our own; this gives you a lot more flexibility in exactly how it works.

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Tags: rails, jukebox, javascript
Colophon the 2nd
I’ve had some requests for more info on the challenges involved in building the new site; read on for more.
For the most part the design is actually fairly simple. Nice clean fonts and a clear rhythm, but I had strong design direction which always helps when building a new site. I sit back-to-back with the designer on this so I could just turn around and ask questions if I needed clarity.
Hosting Kyan.com
It’s now been a week or so since we put the new Kyan.com live and we’ve been getting nothing but rave reviews from everyone who has seen the site. Whilst this is an amazing thing for us to get, it does come with some added side affects, namely the thirty thousand visitors we’ve had from around the globe coming in to see the new site for themselves.
Kyan.com design process

It’s great when you get a project you can really sink your teeth into. We pride ourselves on the effort we put into all our projects, of course, but when it’s for your own agency you can really ‘go to town’ and try new things. Our current website was out of date and needed to better reflect the business rather than just brochureware. We wanted it to focus more on solutions and our applications work. It’s great that applications are a big proportion of our work, so we needed something new and fresh… something that showcased our web talents (HTML5, JQuery, Ruby on Rails).
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Tags: kyan, website, process, design
Web Meet Guildford is on Thursday Nov 24th
The next Web Meet Guildford is almost upon us. Please come and join us to talk all things web from 6pm on Thursday 24th November at The Three Pigeons pub on Guildford High Street.
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Kyan.com colophon
Now that our new site is live, I can finally talk about development decisions we made.
The site last had a makeover in mid-2008 so what we can do has moved on quite considerably, and we’ve tried to take advantage of that where possible.
