Jim is able to offer his services as technical tier 2 supplier for clients in London and the South East, including Brighton ;)

He has built up a strong reputation for delivering high quality web sites and apps for some of the worlds best known brands.

The award was for the WordPress development for Microsoft Xbox which was for their E3 conference in 2010.

What the judges said:

The complete freelancer, Jim is not afraid to take original, highly creative approaches to high-pressure assignments. With so many clients unaware of the vast, untapped pools of creativity out there in the freelance market, his work is a reminder that that a fresh approach can be worth a whole boardroom of full-time company thinkers.

Jim Callender, Will Russell, Matt Potter & Emma Brierley, Chairman

Further links

• Read his comments on his freelance / contracting site – Jayonline
• See the full results on at Xchange team

Book a consultancy session

Have an idea for a web project? Need some advice on how to make it a success? Want to talk over your web project with an expert third party?

A consultancy session is an online meeting where you can discuss your web project with Jim Callender, to take your project forward.

Complete our online form to arrange a session.

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Social Media Training

Social media is defined by tools that allow groups to generate content and engage in conversations and share content online.

Your customers and clients are already at social media Web sites; they’re on share photos on Flickr, they’re LinkedIn, and they have Facebook pages.

We can help you understand your target audience, develop a social media strategy allowing you to engage with them, leading to long-lasting results between you and your customers.

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View all our training courses.

Thank you WordPress!

Pretty much the main reason we redesigned, and in record time – is due to WordPress finally coming of age and being the CMS that everyone who publishes and manages content on the web.

Quick history of our sites

Our first site, Version 1 was static HTML / CSS, Version 2 static again with a WordPress powered blog, and now finally with Version 3 – we have a fully content managed site with some lovely features such as jquery goodness giving some nice animated interactions – drop downs, galleries, etc.

New technology available

We have also embraced the latest CSS3 and HTML5 standards – you will see this scattered throughout the site. If a browser does not support these new standards, then it just degrades nicely and the user just gets served the ‘normal’ experience.

Redesign more often

Redesigns in the web industry are set to become more common as new technologies are adopted commercially, lessons from improving past designs from user experience feedback, and company products can change more often to keep up to date with the market and demand of customers.

Any questions let us know

History of our web sites since we began in 2005

Version 1 – 2005 to 2008

Version 1 – 2008 – 2011

Version 3 – 2011 onwards

These have proved to be popular with colleagues and clients alike. Why? Perhaps as we are sharing what we think is the latest trends, advice and best web services and applications out there.

We aim to continue to write guides about topics which affect how we work and make web sites work harder for you on the web. If you have any questions, or have a suggestion about one you would like to see get in touch.

Feel free to share the PDF eguides with your contacts and clients, they are published using a creative commons licence.

See for yourself at our eguides page, or download them directly here:

Download ‘Top five tips to stay secure online’ (PDF 6MB)

Download ‘Top tips for your ecommerce web site’ (PDF 2MB)

Download’ client eguide to social media’ (PDF 2MB)

Download client eguide to online image editors (PDF 1MB)

Download ‘What is Link Building?’ (PDF 3MB)

Download ‘What makes good Copy?’ (PDF 420KB)

Download ‘What is Pagerank?’ (PDF 1MB)

Why expand in a downturn?

This allows us to be at the cutting edge of new developments in the capital, as well as collaborate with our friends, colleagues and other agencies on exciting digital projects.

It also allows us to attend fantastic networking events like open coffee, minibar and a wide range of regular and one-off ‘web-tech’ events that give us the opportunity to meet new colleagues and clients, talk to people about our work and look for new products to perhaps sell in the future.

As well as go after the larger range of work that is available in London.

We feel this will give us the advantage to learn, collaborate and deliver higher quality than before.

If you are based in London, or even if you are not and want to come to visit us and see the new office. Or meet up for a coffee, and an informal chat feel free to contact us.

Likewise, if you are looking for meeting roooms, permanent or hot-desking office space check out eoffice. Tell them we sent you!

Our London address is:

Callender Creates,
2 Sheraton Street,
London, W1F 8BH

Tel: 08456 524 203
Email: info@callendercreates.com

You can view a Google map and all our other contact details on our contact page.

We’ll be there for one-to-one advice at the Portfolio Clinic from 5 to 7pm. It’s a great opportunity for those looking to carve a career in digital design to get expert advice and feedback on their portfolio. presentations. Along with some of Brightons other leading creative agencies.

If you are coming we look forward to seeing you there, there maybe some freebies too, shh!

UPDATE:
Here’s Wired Sussex’s review of the event on their blog.

Using open source software means you are not tied into any licence agreement with us or any other third parties. If you wish us to keep the content management or ecommerce platform up to date, its a very straight-forward software upgrade. Open source also means the software is contributed by the community of developers like us, who write plugins or extensions to make the software flexible and scalable like never before.

All the solutions are web based, meaning there is no software to install on your machine, so you can access the admin area of your site and edit pages wherever you are in the world!

CONTENT MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS (CMS)

• CUSTOM: Hand written custom code, unique to your sites requirements.
  
• STANDARD: WordPress – Excellent admin for managing site, very powerful CMS and publishing platform, many plugins to make integration with third party sites, rich media and social networks a breeze.
  
• LIGHT: CushyCMS – Easy to use, lightweight, unilimited users, unlimited pages, no training required.
  

» CMS prices start from £1,000, depending on site features, and flexibility of editing your site content.

ECOMMERCE

• CUSTOM: Hand written custom code integrated into new or existing web site, , unique to your sites requirements.
  
• STANDARD: Magento – Super powerful CMS and ecommerce platform, for up to 1000 products and beyond. Over 1 million downloads. Being adopted by some big international companies as they realise the potential.
  
• LIGHT: Shopify or WP-ecommerce (using WordPress) – Adding these extensions to a site adds ecommerce functionality seamlessly. For up to 100 products.
  

» Ecommerce prices start from £1,000, depending on how number of products, and the payment provider, ie: Paypal, Google Checkout or a merchant account, like Protx.

Not sure about what you are looking for? Don’t worry, our first job when we talk to new clients is always to listen and then devise a web strategy on how we can make your web project a complete success. Contact us

Applications for the Sussex Internships Programme went live this week – you can apply for one of 40 current work placements.

The Sussex Internship Programme will provide 100 short-term internships at a wide variety of games, web, software development, animation, TV, e-learning, music, film and advertising companies.

Check out the website today to find out who is involved and what internships are available.

In a series on monthly publications we will be publishing free e-guides for you to download for free. You are welcome to share and print these eguides amongst your company or organisation.

Who are these eguides for?

The guides are in PDF format, in a print friendly format you and colleagues can use for building up a well rounded knowledge of web trends and technologies.

Whether you are a manager, a stakeholder or you someone who is looking at making web sites work harder this collection of eguides is for you. We want to help those who are less internet-savvy through the digital minefields.

We realise that there is a huge choice of services and tools on the web to choose from, we want to be able to explain in simple terms what this means to you and how they can help you save time and money as well as increasing your productivity.

Download our first client e-guide

Our first eguide ‘what makes good copy?’ covers an often over-looked part of web sites. Well structured copy can dramatically improve the feel of your web site, and convey a message to visitors that will make clear, compelling offers. The e-guide also includes copywriting dos and dont’s, and a recipe for “good copy”.

Download what makes good copy? (PDF 419kb)

This e-guide has been written in partnership with Brighton copywriter Leif Kendall and illustration/print design by Door 22 Creative.

Future publications include

• Client e-guide to usability
• Client e-guide to monitoring your brand online
• Client e-guide to a web design project
• Client e-guide to search engine web spiders

We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we have getting our ideas down to help you make ‘useful web sites for everyone’.

Published using creative commons licence

Where we discussed a variety of subjects, including ‘user centered design’, and meeting client business goals. As well as showing some examples of effective and clear design process that make it easy for a site user to understand how a web site can help them in their task to achieve their tasks on the web.

Perhaps the most important question for a client is ‘essential pitch questions’ that you should ask any web design company, to help distinguish between an agency that will be good, and one that is going to be great and deliver results.

Read the full interview