Facebook: should businesses bother?
Posted onApril 4, 2013
One of the most common questions we’re asked is whether businesses should be using social networking as a marketing channel. The answer is usually “yes...
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How to embed YouTube or Vimeo videos using the Noisegate CMS
Posted onFebruary 27, 2013
You can add a video from YouTube or Vimeo to your website through the Noisegate CMS. Here's how to do it in two easy steps...
Read MorePosting news straight to Twitter
Posted onFebruary 15, 2013
Did you know you can post directly to twitter from within the CMS? Here's how to do it...
Read MoreMagento go!
Posted onNovember 21, 2012
We've just launched our first Magento online shop, MacBrayne Wines, and it's been a really interesting experience. We first became aware of Magento about 5 years ago when we were building one of our first big e-commerce websites. At the time we thought it had promise but felt a...
Read MoreApps vs. mobile sites
Posted onJuly 9, 2012
We're quite often asked "do Noisegate make apps?" Well, yes, we do. But is an app really what you need? Apps, be they for iPhone, Android, Blackberry or anything else, can be extremely useful tools for marketing and delivering products and services, and lots of fun to work on and...
Read MoreOur first iPhone app is live!
Posted onApril 27, 2012
We've just received news that our first iPhone app is now available to download from Apple's App Store. AcuteMed is a fantastic online resource aimed at newly qualified doctors working in hospitals' Acute Medicine departments. It's a reference tool containing information on conditions, their diagnosis and treatment, and it's...
Read MoreIn development: CMS v3
Posted onJanuary 26, 2012
Exciting news this week: we've started work on CMS v3. CMS v2 was launched a couple of years ago and has served us all really rather well, so v3 will be more evolutionary than revolutionary. But it will introduce a number of rather excellent new features....
Read MoreWhat are the main barriers to growth in Coventry and Warwickshire?
Posted onJanuary 17, 2012
Noisegate Media are currently developing a new website for the Coventry and Warwicshire Local Enterprise Partnership and we'd like to invite you to take an active role in helping us make it a "go to resource" for businesses in Coventry and Warwickshire. We're really trying...
Read MoreGoodbye IE6
Posted onJanuary 4, 2012
A key challenge for web developers has long been the business of making sites work consistently in different web browsers. At Noisegate we've always considered it to be non-negotiable that all aspects of all of our websites intended for use by the public must work in all of...
Read MoreNew commission: Farm Energy website
Posted onDecember 14, 2011
A few weeks ago I blogged about our experience of working with FEC Services and copy writer Jane Heaton on the Gateway Energy Solutions website. Click here to read that blog, but suffice to say, I was pretty pleased with how the project had gone. Yesterday...
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