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New Site Launch: Park Lane Champagne

Posted: 01/05/2009 - 14:11

Pure Innovation have just launched the new Park Lane Champagne website. Park Lane has been importing and supplying champagne to the UK under their customers' own brands for 15 years. With Pure Innovation's help Park Lane have taken their business online with a content managed e-Commerce website. At the heart of the new site is the label-maker, allowing visitors to customise their champagne bottle with images and text before checking out. Visitors can also read the owner's musings in...

dateToString() PHP Function

Posted: 24/04/2009 - 15:31

We've recently had a project where a calendar was central to the build. We wanted it be really simple and intuitive to use, so we decided to represent dates in both a traditional format and also in a more conversational style such as 'Yesterday' or 'In 2 weeks'. This function works by taking a time stamp in the format yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS. Feel free to use and change the code below, but if you improve it or fix any bugs, please let us know! One thing we would say is that whilst every...

Pure Innovation Are Recruiting

Posted: 04/03/2009 - 9:00

Despite the current economic outlook, business at Pure Innovation is continuing to expand at a dizzying rate. To cope with demand we are expanding our team with two new roles - a graphic designer and a PHP developer. Graphic Designer: £20k - £30k per annum An exciting opportunity for a talented and motivated graphic designer to become an integral part of our development process. A customer-facing role with responsibilities ranging from wireframing and designing websites, through...

The future of PureRSS

Posted: 26/01/2009 - 16:45

PureRSS has served us incredibly well as an initial forray into Android development and we have built up loyal band of users. Version 1.3 has just been released which clears up the last of the memory usage worries by tidying up the main database and shifting as much of the content storage as possible to the SD card, as well as adding a few new features. At Pure Innovation we've been pondering the future of PureRSS as it is clear that there needs to be a major restructuring of the way the...

New Website Launched

Posted: 15/01/2009 - 17:30

Our new website launched today! Have a look around and let us know what you think. Keep an eye on the case studies section as there is more to come showcasing our recent design and technical ability. If you are a PureRSS user you can expect updates and development news to be detailed here as always. Check back often for the latest web industry news and more of our musings in blog posts just like this one.

Our New Website

Posted: 08/01/2009 - 13:16

Our new website is almost ready for launch. The main build is complete and we are just going through the process of entering all the content into the content management system. We’re still a few days away from the formal launch, but to whet your appetite here is a small teaser of what is coming:

PureRSS Released for Android

Posted: 04/12/2008 - 16:07

We have just made PureRSS (surprisingly enough an RSS reader) available for alpha testing on the android marketplace - following the "Release early, release often" mantra. We welcome any and all feedback, and aim to make point release upgradesPureRSS is an application and background service that trawls RSS and Atom feeds that you subscribe to every few minutes, alerting you as and when new posts are available.As this is an alpha release there are further features that we will be adding over...

Developing for Android

Posted: 18/11/2008 - 16:10

We’ve just completed our first commercial mobile phone application, a relatively straight forward tech demo providing an image slide-show with accompanying text, with links through to associated web pages! This is an exciting new avenue for us, one which we feel could be a significant market player over the next 12 months. Android is the mobile phone platform created by Google that has been open sourced by the search giant, making it available to any hardware manufacturer that wishes...