Chris Walton

12 Months at Creative Play

12 months ago today I started working at Creative Play in Chester (also happens to be my Dad’s birthday – happy birthday Dad), and a long, exciting and busy 12 months its been!

Whether working on the companies website, setting up email campaigns, monitoring Google Analytics or posting to Facebook and Twitter its been varied and challenging year.

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Cloud Computing, a help or hinderence?

Unless you have been living under a rock you will know that the next big thing is the concept of cloud computing. The basic idea has actually been around for some time when it comes to apps for authoring documents online such as the popular Google Docs which I have been using for 3 or 4 years.

Now there is one question which I asked myself last night, “what do you when the Internet goes off?”

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Boldly Going Where No Google Doodle Has Gone Before

Today Google celebrate the 46th anniversary of Star Trek first broadcast… and Im going to admit it, yes Im a bit of a Trekkie.

As usual the creative boys and girls behind the Google doodle have turned the Google logo into the iconic Star Trek The Original Series crew.

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3 years since Graduation

Its now been 3 years since I graduated from Liverpool John Moores, we all had our day at the Cathedral in the robes and mortarboards, unfortunately it was a pretty windy day in Liverpool that day but at least it wasn’t raining like it has been this July.

A great deal happens in 3 years, if your anything like me most people you spent 3 or 4 years with working hard to get your degree will have moved away and you will speak to them once in a while (even the ones you still live relatively near). Thats life though, it moves on.

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Alan Turing turns 100

Alan Turing, who is considered to be the father of computing and the man who tackled the problem of decoding German naval enigma would have celebrated his 100th birthday today.

Google marked the occasion in their usual fashion, with an interactive doodle based on the Turing Machine.

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To New Beginnings!

After just off 2 and a half years I am to bid farewell to working in Liverpool and am looking forward to starting my new job in Chester as the sole member of the in-house web team for www.creativeplayuk.com.

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Best CSS3 Techniques

CSS3 is one of the greatest tools in web designer and coders arsenal, even though CSS3 is not fully supported yet, many web developers are starting to use many of the new techniques it brings to the table.

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