On Friday the 11th of May 2012 the Scottish Governments’ consultation on the proposed independence referendum closed.
There has been a lot of debate over the currently proposed question so we thought we’d take a look at what makes the perfect question. We applied our UX and Market Research skills to design a suitable alternative question for the referendum. Read more about: Writing the perfect Scottish referendum question »
There are 12 days to go until the grace period for the revision to the EU’s Privacy and Electronic Communication Directive expires. We will be releasing a series of blog posts over the next twelve days to help you get your company’s website up to the standard required before the grace period expires.
Read more about: 12 days to go to cookie compliance »
photo courtesy of 'WillowGardeners'
Happy Easter from the Border Crossing Media Team!
Our Easter office will be closed from 5pm on Thursday the 5th of April to Tuesday the 10th of April. For all critical enquiries during this period please call your designated point of contact on their mobile phone.
We hope you have a wonderful Easter!
Last week was Scotland’s leading conference for the digital, creative and cultural sectors, organised by Interactive Scotland & AmbITion Scotland. This year’s theme was Monetising Opportunities - something we are always interested in - so off we went to Glasgow to find out more. Read more about: Digital 2012 »
Whilst undertaking a cookie audit of our website, a requirement of the new EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, I was reminded of one of my kids favourite stories. Half way through We’re going on a bear hunt the family “stumble, trip, stumble, trip, stumble, trip” through a dark, deep forrest. Now that’s exactly how I felt whilst trying to log and identify each of the cookies on our website. I trialled a number of tools and processes so I thought it would be useful to share the the approach I ended up settling on.
Read more about: We’re going on a cookie hunt »
On January 24th Google revealed some major updates to their privacy policy. There has been a mixed response to the changes that were announced on Google’s Official Blog, by Alma Whitten (Google’s Director of Privacy, Product and Engineering).
Read more about: Google announces new privacy policy »
The Nielsen Norman Group are bringing their usability week back to Edinburgh. From the 19th – 23rd of March 2012, they will be running 18 full-day tutorials. Sadly this means you can’t attend all of them.
Read more about: The Nielsen Norman Group is coming to Edinburgh »
You have installed and configured your Symfony2 project, added the Entity classes, prepared everything for persisting them into a database and, bam, you end up with the following error message after executing “php app/console doctrine:database:create” the command prompt:
Read more about: Resolve a path error in Symfony2 when using MAMP under OSX Lion »
User Interface 16, the User Experience and Design Conference developed by the amazing team at User Interface Engineering, was held in Boston, MA (USA) back in November 2011.
Read more about: Get the best of UI16 OnDemand »
Photo courtesy of Simon 'Kelp' Keeping
Merry Christmas from the team at Border Crossing Media!
We’ve had a very busy 2011 with new projects and even our own rebrand. We’d like to thank all the people we have had the joy to work with over the last year and wish everyone a wonderful Christmas and a spectacular New Year.
Our office will be closed from 12pm Friday the 23rd of December until Wednesday the 4th of January 2012.
We will be checking emails and picking up messages over the festive period but all non-critical issues or enquiries will not be dealt with until January 4th 2012. For all critical enquiries please call your designated point of contact on their mobile phone.
Have a wonderful Christmas & New Year!
