News
The day to day goings on of Interconnect IT that we think are worth sharing with our readers.
Working with Liverpool Girl Geeks in 2017
If you work in the tech industry around the Liverpool area, you may be aware of the work Liverpool Girl Geeks are doing to help to reduce the gender gap in the tech and IT industry.
No, those animations won’t change the way we read the news
Our Senior Designer, Anthony Casey, looks at why you want your site to be more 60s Dieter Rams Braun, than 90s Aiwa.
My Career So Far
I’ve been working at interconnect/it for over three years now and in that time I have progressed from apprentice to developer. I thought it may be helpful to write about my experience, to encourage others just starting out in the industry.
Breaking into the magic of search engines
We have been doing some really neat R&D work for clients recently, focusing on the WordPress search functionality. This is the first in a series of articles I am intending to write on the subject of search engines.
Our Go Ape adventure
To celebrate the company’s 20 year anniversary, we decided to go on a tree-mendous team-building day at Go Ape in Delamere forest! Check out Laurie’s write up and some photos from the day.
How do we create something pretty useful, not just pretty and useless?
We feel it’s important to stay up to date with the latest industry best practice. Last month we headed to NUX5 to hear from our industry’s opinion leaders on the subject of user experience.
Twenty years of interconnect/it – and did you know we started as publishers?
On our twentieth anniversary we stop for a moment and think back over the success of the company; The clients we’ve helped, the friends in the web development industry we’ve made…
Continuous Integration with WordPress
New tutorial from our developer, Evgenii Nasyrov. Do you want to achieve continuous integration with WordPress? We walk you through the steps. Read on to get all the details.
The Blog from the Sea of Cortez
We recommend every project we undertake contains some aspect of ‘discovery’. Read on to find out more about this important part of any project we undertake at interconnect/it.
How The Spectator went from one million to ten million page views per month
There’s a direct link between web traffic and revenue when you’re a publisher. How well that works depends a lot on other factors – the business model, commercial relationships and so on.
Introducing our Summer Intern: Diane Dewez
This year we are pleased to welcome Diane Dewez as our Computer Science summer intern. Here she tells us a little about her career ambitions and what she hopes to take from her internship.
What web developers have in common with builders and decorators
Our Lead Developer, Damian, is in the middle of renovating his new home and believes he has spotted some similarities between the web development and building trades.
Sniff Petrol
Commissioned by Richard Porter, the previous script editor on Top Gear, and built on our new Standfirst Cloud platform, Sniff Petrol is the online satirical magazine dedicated to all things motoring.
Marketing Week Wins Award!
Since the relaunch of the new Marketing Week site, it looks like it’s been turning heads, again. This time winning an award!
The Art of Time Well-spent
Developing a new product is hard. Launching a new product is hard. Developing and launching a new product whilst delivering Client Services projects is a whole other world. Here are 5 things you can do to help use your time effectively.
Rage against the vending machine
It’s very easy to make the wrong decisions based on a lack of real evidence—especially if ‘best-practice’ takes over and we assume we know what our users and audience need. Throwing around some pop culture, I’m going to try and dig into the issue.
There’s life in Magazine Subscriptions
It’s a proud feeling for us when clients do well. Even better when they are on a list of top performers in the publishing sector. We’re passionate about developing for the publishing industry and love seeing our clients doing well.
