Thanks to our good friends at Winchester Travel Health, Charlecote Mews now has its very own recycling cooperative. Organised by Joanna Lowry from WTH, participating businesses in our little enclave can now recycle anything from paper and cardboard to plastic bottles. We were only happy to jump on board and send our thanks to Joanna for all her hard work in setting up the scheme.
Studio Republic’s Blog
February 18, 2010
February 2, 2010
Google drops support for Internet Explorer 6
Us web designers have known it for a long time and now thankfully Google have confirmed it – Internet Explorer 6 is past it! If only Microsoft would also take the bull by the horns and kill it off it would make our lives so much easier.
When building a site, a huge amount of time can be taken up with re-engineering bits of the code to work in IE 6. It affects our productivity and ultimately costs our clients more money so anything that goes some way to ending the life of this pain in the web designer’s backside can only be a good thing!
Here’s the email sent out by Google last night:
Dear Google Apps admin,
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.
Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.
Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.
In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.
Thank you for your continued support!
Sincerely,
The Google Apps team
January 18, 2010
Hampshire Dance presents – U.Dance
We were very happy to be asked by Hampshire Dance to produce a promotional leaflet for their latest show.
Taking place in at the Brighton Dome on the 21st Feb. The leaflet is as bright and as impactful as no doubt the performance itself will be. We hope it’s a great success – good luck U.Dance!
January 13, 2010
New business is welcome around the Solent
Studio Republic were approached by SEEDA to produce initial designs for a series of brochures to help promote and encourage new business to the South East, Hampshire and Isle of Wight region.
The result is this 8 page gate-fold brochure that can be used for overseas shows and as a quick reference guide of the area’s facilities.
January 11, 2010
Tourism South East members see the benefit
Cracking straight into 2010 and we’ve just finished the new look Tourism South East membership benefits literature.
We needed to embrace all aspects of the South East and with this bright and breezy style we’ve achieved exactly that.
December 15, 2009
Have a great Christmas, whatever it means to you
The festive spirit has landed in the studio and we’re all feeling very jolly!
So, in keeping with the festive season, we would like to wish everyone we know a very Merry Christmas. As it’s the season of giving, we have created a small gift of a game of Snowball Warrior to enjoy as we head towards the big day. Take five, put your feet up and let battle commence!
We’ll be off enjoying the festivities from 23 December until 4 January.
Have a great Christmas and New Year – we’ll see you in 2010.
All at Studio Republic
November 24, 2009
Seasonal greetings cards from the ICI-UKBA
OK Christmas is definitely fast approaching (and it seems to get earlier each year!).
We’ve just completed a Seasonal Reception invitation for the ICI-UKBA (that’s the short version of the Independent Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency).
A very tasty looking card printed on a heavy uncoated stock that just shouts quality and style.
Friends of the Republic
As our new studio has the room to accommodate 1000 small elephants we thought it was time we dedicated a small part of this to our clients (and we thought elephants would get in the way of the work).
We are proud to unveil the client wall – everyone gets their own bubble complete with logo so next time you pop in to see us take a minute to stop and admire our creative handywork – oh, and your logo!
Behold the wall…
November 23, 2009
Agent Smart website goes in for “some work”
Being very LA… err no err… well Hampshire, Agent Smart has “had some work done”.
Never fear he doesn’t now resemble a cross between Katie Price and a Sherlock Holmes, that really would be too scary to share here! The new improved website design has gone live now and as facelifts go, it has been rather successful.
Check out the all new improved homepage at: www.agentsmart.co.uk and while you’re there don’t forget to have a go at the 12 days of Christmas quiz for your chance to win some of the finest Hampshire wine available.
November 17, 2009
Christmas ecard – the eco way to say Happy Christmas
We’ve just completed a couple of jobs for one of our new clients, the very nice people at Winchester Travel Health. One of which is their Christmas ecard.
They have taken the eco bull by the jingle horns and decided that 2009 is the year of the ecard – not even a last minute postal strike can stop these from going out.
Here’s a sneak preview of the rather nice looking emailwe’ve designed and built and will be sending out soon.
