Posted by Javid Ali
In the first quarter of 2009, 3TM are due to release an ever expanding Content Management System as an additional service to existing web clients and future 3rd Time Media customers. spaceCMS is a secure web based multi-user and multi-access-level content management environment, providing powerful functionality and flexibility for a wide range of web applications.
Layouts for page interiors can be customised and built within minutes thanks to the simple-but-powerful Template Builder interface. It can then be shared across pages, which can in-turn be built within seconds. This provides users with consistency across pages, whilst having ample choices for the look and feel of each page.
Precise technologies and design patterns that support spaceCMS have been carefully chosen as a foundation, in combination with expert coding and factorisation of data pieces to allow for a lightning-fast data retrieval mechanism that displays pages rapidly to the front end user. However, speed and efficiency are not the only rare elements here; due to its flexible nature, it is possible for spaceCMS to act as a back bone for any kind of web site and it can be tailored to support all unique features that depend on its application.
Web sites produced by spaceCMS are automatically built using available Search Engine Optimisation techniques, ensuring that all content and pages are easily acquired by typical search engines such as Google and Yahoo. Generated pages are W3C compliant and conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. They are also loaded with security features to ensure a bullet-proof front-end interface protects all server-side components.
Currently a spectrum of spaceCMS packages are under trial runs with existing 3TM customer web sites. The rollout of version 2.0 will call for a deeper analysis - so watch this space!
More information can be found on the spaceCMS official page.
Posted by Will Barlow
Finally and with relief, after almost three years trying to find the time we have it…a new 3rd Time Media web site!
Why the relief? For those readers that are clients and friends of 3rd Time Media, you’ll know exactly why I’m relieved. Our previous website never reflected us, the work we do – the work we don’t do, the environment in which we work and who we are - on any level.
Why? It’s simple, the work for our clients comes first, which is the same for all agencies. It’s taken three long years to find the time to put our own house in order.
It’s been a tough ride over the past few weeks, trying to get this new website up and live before the Christmas and New Year break, but we knew that if it didn’t happen now we’d not get another chance for another 12 months or… possibly three more years!!
Our new web site is a great end 2008 for us, we’re all looking forward to the exciting work and challenges of 2009.
As always, we have people to thank, firstly our clients, thanks for your continued support, it’s been a great year full of interesting projects. And of course to our friends and families who have all played such an important role in where 3rd Time Media is today.
Happy 2009.
Posted by Rhonda O'Shea
A Very Warm Welcome to all you digital marketing managers, online marketing managers, directors, ecommerce managers…did I miss anybody? I bow down to you. Really! Being a digital marketing student myself who is frantically trying to finish a digital marketing assignment deadline, before Christmas, is on a seriously steep learning curve and, hence, my curiosity about your responsibilities and positions, is getting the best of me. Writing digital marketing objectives and strategies for the first time has been more than daunting and slightly intimidating at the best of times but I am nearly complete. That is just a fraction of the assignment. There is more to come. So, my curiosity is to all you managers that are tasked with this daunting challenge of objectives, strategy and justifying your decisions to maximize you’re budgets accordingly. Does it get any easier with experience and time? I would like to think so. How do you tackle this huge task and what do you like or dislike most about doing it? So many digital media channels to choose from. It’s great isn’t it?
Posted by David Laycock
This time of year many of us put down the mouse, tear our eyes away from our monitor screens, and head outside for some winter fun. As a web designer, I have fallen victim to the stereotype sport of many web designers out there and have started snowboarding. I have even had my first dramatic injury, falling victim to a dry slope classic of catching my thumb in the lattice of the dry slope and breaking one of the bones cleanly in two! With my thumb fully healed, I now feel ready to take on the mountain and recharge the batteries ready for the New Year. With all the snow I’ll be looking at, expect my designs to have a very limited colour palette of white with plenty of extra white for the first few months of the year!
