Hit Reach are looking for a full time sales person to join our expanding team and growing business.

Hit Reach provides Web Design and SEO services and specialise in WordPress websites. Our clients range from small local businesses to international companies with round one funding of 3.1 million!

All our full time staff receive profit share, gym membership, fruit and water & more!

The right candidate will be dynamic, energetic and passionate. They will be self-driven, motivated and outgoing with a desire to achieve and help customers. The role will primarily cover Angus & Tayside.

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One of our web designers, Matt Braddock is running 3 Marathons In 1 Month to raise money for a Motor Neurone Disease charity.

He is running the Barcelona Marathon – 25 March 2012, Vienna Marathon – 15 April 2012 and Virgin London Marathon – 22 April 2012.

Matt explains better than I could so here’s his reasoning:

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We recently set up annual scholarships and awards worth £1000 for web design students at Angus College.

Last week Hayley and Lauren formally presented our cheque to the Chairman of the Angus College Charitable Trust, William Lawrie.

The College have posted a news item on their website. Overview:

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We have been noimated for September’s Heart Internet Website of the Month award.

There are 6 sites to vote for including ours and the winner receives promotion from the Heart Internet team in the form of, a listing on the previous winners page, interview on their blog and featured in their newsletter.

You also get a badge to put on your site, listed on their facebook profile and featured in the annual winners summary.

If you can take 30 seconds to vote for us we’d really appreciate it!

Just visit: http://www.heartinternet.co.uk/wotm/ and click the stars next to the Hit Reach site in the bottom right.

If you work with a lot of different file types regularly in Photoshop, for example editing lots of company logos which are often sent in a wide variety of formats, it can be time consuming over a period of time to have to check and change a file type from Index mode to RGB mode so you can edit it properly.

If an image file is left in Index mode you are limited in how it can be edited. For example:

• It will become distorted if you try to resize it
• You cannot paste new layers on top of the image (instead they will just be merged)
• Colours cannot be added to the file
• And so on…

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We will keep this list of useful Web Design and Development Links updated. If you want notified when new addtions are made just leave a comment and check the box to receive notifications and we’ll leave a comment each time we update it with new resources.

If you have a resource you think we should add please do so in the comments at the bottom of the page.

HTML Tag List

http://w3schools.com/html5/html5_reference.asp
A list of all the available and deprecated HTML tags all the way up to HTML 5

CSS Property List

http://w3schools.com/cssref/default.asp
A list of all the available CSS properties and usage information all the way up to CSS3

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This year, in addition to setting up 2 annual scholarships and 2 annual awards worth £1000 for Angus College, we have started our annual DJCAD Web Design & SEO Competition.

The 2011 prize is worth more than £2500 and any undergraduate or postgraduate who finished their final course at Duncan of Jordanstone this year can apply.

The only stipulation is that applicants must be planning to start up their own business or work on a freelance basis aftter their graduation. Existing businesses or freelancers who graduated this year may apply. The prize is intended to help support a graduate launch their career as an artist rather than use it to find permanent employment. (Though we wish everyone looking for employment the best of luck).

The winner will be able to choose from any of the following services up to the value of the award:

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We have recently set up annual scholarships and awards for web design students at Angus College worth more than £1000.

Each year we will donate a scholarship worth £200 each to an HNC & HND student who undertakes the Web Design course at Angus College.

We will also provide cash prizes worth £300 each to the top student on each course. They will also be given a small souvenir and added to the winners shield.

In addition we also provide both the local high schools and the college with work experience placements, donate to charities and support local enterprising artisits and passionate entrepreneurs.

We are having a web design and SEO open evening at our offices in Arbroath on Thursday 23rd June, 2011 from 5pm-7.30pm.

All of our friends and business contacts are welcome to come along and enjoy some socialising and networking over drinks in our newly extended and redecorated offices.

Please feel free to bring a friend or colleague with you and just let Hayley know your numbers in advance.

The team will be available so please come along and discuss your website ideas and projects with us. We will be able to offer free advice and guidance on ways a new website could be used to support your business more effectively, how best to promote an existing website you have using SEO or even just answering your questions.

You can also have a play around with some content management systems or view some recent work we have produced.

If you are looking for web designers in Dundee or surrounding area then why not come along and meet the team and see if you think we’d be a good fit for your business.