With summer on its way and the snow season looking pretty dismal, it’s time to start planning those summer holidays! The time where business slows down and the drinking quickens. I can picture it now, sitting on the beach with a VB in hand, sporting my tight assed Speedos and a beer gut to die for! – Bring it on!!
Last Sunday (150902) spelled the end of the Sony Ericsson Text Message Championships where we saw James Trusler become the Champion of Champions. Nice work James! The only male amongst the finalists and a network engineer…. a computer geek – Nice!! James has won himself a free Gruden Web Package where we’ll be putting together a site for him. Ideas anyone?? something along the lines of him doing some sexy moves on his new Vespa maybe??? James does the exhaust pipe perhaps?!! now we are getting silly! Anyway check out the Gruden Crew showing off our latest summer line of clothing at the Finals.
The Retreat at Wisemans has just under gone a total site rebuild, which includes some subtle flash work, custom built CMS and site usage tracking software. I reckon it looks pretty good! To check it out, Click Here. We recently had our director’s conference at The Retreat and have to say it was our best conference to date! Our only gripe was the fact they closed the bar too early! (Personally, I think they did it for our own benefit. Thanks guys – only had a dull pounding in the morning.)
PPCA have also undergone a complete site rebuild and are using a total site wide CMS. The site has been in construction for quite a while now, but is finally released. YAY!! Check it out Here
Our good friends at ARIA required the talents of Gruden once again, this time to build this years ARIA Awards Voting website in conjunction with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. As per usual, there wasn’t a hell of a lot of time to bang this puppy together, but we pulled it off – damn well actually!
The feedback from the site was better than any had expected. With comments such as “This is the best method of voting ARIA has ever used. Well done.” and “Superb navigation, stunning GUI and such an easy backend system which quickly resolved all pages with out any error what so ever. I think you did a fantastic job Gruden on the whole experience.” *#cough#!cough*! Why Thank You!
Lots of exciting jobs coming up soon. Graphic Overprint’s new website, more CBOnline enhancements, -BLIP- new sites coming (can’t say who just yet…) more Collex, more Cookie Man and lots more in the pipeline.
Anyway peoples I was about to get carried away with ‘but wait there’s more, more, more!!!’ except we had no steak knives to give away and I’m not a fan of Tim Shaw. (sorry Tim)
Till next time!
