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Welcome Jo

Jo has been working with me since the end of August, primarily on the work we do for AOL. I’m hoping though that we’ll find the time to get her to write some features for the miggle site and for this blog, as well as her own profile page, so watch this space!

Cosmofil

During August we picked up a new client, Cosmofil, a travel business focussing on cultural exchanges. The plan is that we’ll work with Cosmofil to help build their business online. The first step as part of this was to look a site redesign - something which would provide more flexibility and allow us to add to more quickly than their existing static HTML site.

Initially the plan was to build the site in Joomla, but after an extensive review we felt it wasn’t going to offer us the flexibility we needed, even though Joomla has some really great features. Instead, we’ve built it on our own evolving PHP/MySQL based CMS. There’ll be more on this, and on the Cosmofil site, in next month’s update.

dConstruct 2007 was a great event. It was the first one I had been to and was just a fine example of another one of those things which happens in Brighton that shows what a great community of web professionals we have in the town. The presentations apart, which were all based around User Experience, the best part of the day for me was having the opportunity to get to spend time with a good many of the people I’ve met since setting up down here, as well meet some new faces.

As Yahoo! Developer Network were one of the official sponsors of the conference it was a great opportunity to meet up with some old colleagues.

NixonMcInnes were one of the more local sponsors of the event and they were making a considerable effort to recruit new talent into their team. At this stage, I will unashamedly say that NixonMcInnes is pretty much the business I’d like to build miggle.co.uk into. They do some great work, for some high profile clients and service these really effectively through a team that’s based around a few, what I would call, classic web producers.

The role of a web producer has always been a hard one to define. Its so ubiquitous. To me, a good producer is the person who makes things happen. They’ll likely be multi-skilled and will just do what it takes. This comment from Jenni Lloyd’s profile on the NixonMcInnes site really sums it up. She says:-

Producer is one of those funny job titles that confuses more than it enlightens. As my friend Ali asked me at Christmas - ‘Yes, but what do you actually do?’

I’ve found that question asked of me a lot during my career. What I think it shows though is that if you have a business built from people who can make things happen, then things will happen. So, with a good team of producers, I don’t really see it as any surprise that NixonMcInnes does so well.