Most people who build for the web agree that trying to use Flash on anything to be used by mobile devices is a bad idea. Most people, however, don’t keep up with the state of the web as closely as we do. In the last few weeks we’ve had a couple of clients ask us [...]
Mobile First Device Detection (for .NET)
We have written about Responsive Design before, and for us it is become our default approach in all new design projects. We’re also starting to combine this with a Mobile First approach, designing for mobile devices first in order to focus the interface on only the information/tasks that a user really needs. However, sometimes a [...]
An Apps An App For A’ That
Last year, Storm ID helped The Scottish Government realise their ambitions to make the complete works of Robert Burns available, free of charge, on the iPhone for the very first time. This year we went a couple of steps further in the run up to Burn’s night and brought the works of Scotland’s National Bard [...]
Storm is hiring in a BIG way
Storm ID are expanding some of their key service areas and are looking for new talent. If you are interested in any of these roles – don’t call your agent, say hello to us: hello@stormid.com About Storm At Storm ID you will get early use of new technologies in the company of talented programmers [...]
Storm develops DirectScot – a prototype for a Scottish public services portal
>DirectScot, a prototype for a Scottish public services portal, was launched today by the Scottish Government. The site, which was developed by Storm ID, is designed to provide people and businesses with a simpler view of all public information and services available to them. The prototype currently aggregates data from a variety of sources including: [...]
Trinity Mirror Go Hyperlocal, Social and Mobile
> Trinity Mirror has just announced the latest version of their hyperlocal focused website Local Mole (www.localmole.co.uk) which was designed and developed here at Storm ID. Local Mole contains a list of 1.8 million businesses throughout the UK and is promoted through Trinity Mirror’s stable of over 100 local websites and 140 regional newspapers. The [...]
The Wisdom of SoLoMo
How social media, location services and mobile access are revolutionising bricks and mortar business. SoLoMo – not an ancient Middle Eastern king with untold wisdom and a penchant for threatening to cleave babies in two, but the acronym now increasingly bandied about as shorthand for social media, location and mobile. Yesterday, part of our Digital [...]
Mobile search – the future of web browsing?
The term mobile search refers to information retrieval via mobile devices. Mobile search requires interactive user input and most search methods also require a mobile Internet connection (with the exception of search by SMS). This blog post will broken down into three parts to provide an overview of important mobile Internet and search statistics followed [...]