29
Jul 10
Posted By
Paul

Website Wins National Award

It’s been an exciting time for the web team involved with 360 diversity.  The website that we created has been instrumental in helping Core Assets win the 2010 EFA & EFB Best Small Organisation (under 1,000 employees) award.
The Employers Forum on Age (EFA) and Employers [...]

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25
Jun 10
Posted By
Nick

Bird & Co World Cup Party!

Bucking the trend of the Bird & Co office being a hive of productivity, Wednesday afternoon was given over to slightly more fun proceedings (what could be more fun than programming websites I hear you say!)
In an effort to make the most of what could [...]

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28
May 10
Posted By
Martin

Bird and Co World Cup Pool

With the World Cup only two weeks away the team at Bird and Co have decided to pick who we think will win! Well actually we drew teams from a hat/tupperware box, each drawing a team and then repeating the process three times so we all had a trio of countries to help us win the £25 prize, or £5 for second place

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23
Apr 10
Posted By
faye

Percy’s Spring Chickens

We are used to hatching great designs here at Bird and Co
But this month, something else has been hatching…
10 little chicks!

It all started with 4 of Craig’s hens and a Cockerel!
The eggs were put into an incubator…
and 21 days later he has the most adorable [...]

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13
Apr 10
Posted By
craig

Welcoming Home the Grand National Winner

Bird and Co would like to congratulate Jonjo O’Neill and the rest of the team at Jackdaws Castle on winning the Grand National with “Don’t Push It“.

We are currently redesigning and developing Jonjo O’Neill Racing’s website and I had the privilege of being invited to [...]

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8
Apr 10
Posted By
katy

Race for Life

The birds of Bird and Co are putting on their running shoes and dressing head to toe in pink in the hope of raising money for Cancer Research. Yes that’s right, on the 13th June we will be attempting to complete the three mile race [...]

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23
Mar 10
Posted By
Nick

Bird & Co Produce new website for MDC Pool Services

Bird & Co have recently started working with MDC Pool services who provide any of the services you may need for your pool, from winterising and valeting, to maintenance and advise.
Based in the Redditch, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire and Birmingham areas, Mark Cresswell is a fully qualified [...]

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24
Feb 10
Posted By
Martin

Bridging the Gap Between Photoshop and your Web Browser

No Compromise Design
We’ve got a good bunch of designers in our office. They churn out excellent design after excellent design and their websites are a pleasure to convert into HTML/CSS. But with excellent design comes complicated elements - rounded corners, drop shadow, transparency – and even [...]

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29
Jan 10
Posted By
Nick

PHP Shorthand if and else assignments

What you don’t hear as a beginner
When you are learning a scripting language such as PHP you will get the basics of assignment, evaluating and comparison operators such as == <= and != (equal, less than or equal, not equal). They are all you need [...]

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19
Jan 10
Posted By
faye

Photoshop Tutorial: Carved Wood Effect

First you will need to find a wood image try www.shutterstock.com to buy and downloads great photos

Open the file in Photoshop and save the wooded texture image as layered photoshop file
We need to make a pattern from this image to use later to create the [...]

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