Blue Square are pleased to announce that after running as two separate companies under the one umbrella, Blue Square Design and Blue Square Ebusiness have now merged. The move has been brought about by both the ever increasing need that our clients have for all our services (design for traditional print, design for new media and ebusiness solutions) and to bring a younger member onto the board.

Behind the scenes we are now stronger and better structured, and our service to our clients will improve as a result.  The board has reformed with Nial Chapman joining Jim Patrick, Brian Cairns and Stuart Urquhart as the new team responsible for driving Blue Square Design forward.

The only change to clients is that all invoices will come from one company and ebusiness customers will require to change the bank account details for their BACS payments. Details are being mailed to your admin departments.

If you have any questions or queries regarding this article please contact Jim Patrick on 01382 223111.

Comments (1) Jul 27 2009

Advertising expenditure levels in the UK fell by a total of 4.0% last year, according to new figures released by the Advertising Association and WARC (World Advertising Research Centre).

Although the drop affected most traditional media, (including press, TV and Radio) both cinema (1%) and online (19%) saw rises in advertising spend.

So why are Blue Square telling you this? It’s simple really, there has never been a better time to advertise!  Blue Square can buy all kinds of advertising media (including, TV & Radio, Outdoor and Online) at prices you will not believe.  Furthermore we can create campaigns that will drive business to you in difficult times.  For further information contact Brian Cairns on 01382 223111.

Comments (0) Jul 27 2009

YouTube (a Google owned company) has recently indicated that it will be phasing out support for the browser Internet Explorer version 6.

The online video website is pointing to the fact that ‘modern’ browsers like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.5 are now widely available, highly functional, much improved and more secure alternatives for web users. 

A couple of newsletters ago Blue Square indicated the time was right for our clients (in their Browser Wars article) to move away from IE6 and (at the very least) upgrade to IE7, IE8, Firefox 3.5 or Chrome.  With YouTube leading the way in phasing out support for IE6 we can safely assume that the best of the rest will follow suit and soon web users on IE6 will begin to miss out on site functionality.

Although we will continue to support IE6 in the short term we now urge any clients still on IE6 to upgrade now!

Comments (0) Jul 27 2009