Our first promotional video has just been completed and can be watched below.

We’re currently refitting the offices with a new bathroom, new kitchen, increasing the workspace in the back room, painting the whole place and getting new flooring throughout. Once this is finished we’ll take some footage of the office and a kind bunch of local clients are going to pop in to do some testimonials for us so they will both be added later along with any new projects we’ve done in the meantime.

We’ll probably include some footage of one our monthly bring your pet to work days too for fun

Hayley is also going to do some voiceovers and introductions even though she hasn’t agreed to it. Yet!

Big thanks to our regular video partner company Aoken for an excellent corporate video and having lots of patience with us

If you want to know how to easily watch BBC iPlayer, Sky Player, Netflix, 4od (channel 4 on demand), LoveFilm, SeeSaw and a host of other video streaming websites abroad then read on.

The sites above offer streaming tv episodes and movies but are restricted to being watched in certain countries. Netflix is restricted to being watched in the US and the rest can only be watched if you are in the UK (aka have a UK IP address).

If you try and watch them from abroad then you will be shown a message to the effect of the service is not available in your area. [Read more...]

CSS3 PIE (Progressive Internet Explorer) is a new web toolkit created by Jason Johnston, It is an open source community project that allows anyone to contribute to it.

The aim of PIE is to bring the new css3 features to Internet Explorer 6+ through the behavior property in CSS. This allows us to move forward in web design and use new CSS3 techiques without needing to worry what it would look like to users of Internet Explorer.

These techniques include: (either fully or partially at the time of writing)

• Border-Radius
• Box-Shadow
• Border-Images
• Multiple Background Images
• Linear-Gradient as a background image

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This web design tutorial will demonstrate how to create buttons that are animated when clicked using only HTML and CSS (this tutorial also uses CSS3 techniques)

This Is My Button

First create your link that will act as the button, here we are using a standard anchor tag with a class:

<a href='#' class='myButton'>This Is My Button</a>

This is really all the html needed to create the button, the rest is CSS,
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This web design tutorial will demonstrate how to create drop-down menus that work using only html and css. Step One – The Basic Template

Set your top level menu up as an unordered list within your navigation container. Here we have used #navigation for the navigation container. [Read more...]

Brucefield is the only Arbroath B&B which is ‘Boutique’. The official 5 star B&B is contemporary & stylish and set in a 1920′s built manor house within walking distance to the centre of Arbroath town.
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If you are considering applying for a job at Hit Reach here’s some things you might like to know about us and how we work.

After 6 months all of our full time staff and contractors receive:

1. Company profit sharing each month on top of their salaries
2. Monthly gym membership at a location of their choice
3. Medical and health insurance for them and their partners/families
4. Birthday’s off. Fully paid. And it doesn’t come out their holiday allowance
5. The Friday or Monday off instead if their birthday lands on a weekend

Some  little things that can make a big difference:

1. We have free water and fruit in the office
2. We finish early on a Friday
3. We don’t class doctor/dentist/eyetest appointments as ‘time off’
4. We don’t embrace an ‘us and them’ management/employee structure
5. We pay for the Xmas night out each year. The whole thing.

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Everyone at Hit Reach would like to wish all our customers and users a Happy New Year and we look forward to working with you and supporting your businesses and ventures again in 2011.

2010 was a great year for us and we would like to thank everyone who contributed. Here’s a short summary of what we got up to this year:

We celebrated our 2nd birthday. Although some of our team have worked together for more than 8 years now, Hit Reach is only 2! We’ve made it into the 66% of business that don’t fail in the first 2 years and hopefully we’ll be making another list like this at the end of 2011.

We opened up new offices in Arbroath, Angus. Our new offices enable us to do our WordPress training for new clients and SEO training workshops in house as well as provide our team in Angus & Tayside with a base to work from.
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You may have noticed some subtle changes to your searching experience in the past few days if you use Google. Google have made changes to the paid search results displayed for Google.com and can also be seen across all English language local Google versions.

It’s a change which could be seen as a move to just simplify the search experience for their users, after all Google do have the most memorable, quick and simple homepage.

In this move Google are set to save 11 characters which is around 12 bytes of data per search that is eligible to display sponsored listings. On average over a 24 hour period there are more than 400 million search queries are made. Perhaps this is why? A saving which seems so small is actually a massive saving over the period of a year.
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