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December 2005

And again!

We've been so busy working on our Clients' sites, we've neglected our own - again!

Amongst the updates and new sites:

Easy (Ez) Revenue Management Solutions

We've made further changes to the Client's web site within the overall corporate branding parameters set by the Client to match their traditional media advertising. It now features a new menu system and a different client hotel image each time the site is reloaded.

SightRightUK

The new web site for SightRightUK has gone live now, featuring a very low cost online shop for their products using PayPal but with multiple shipping cost options (not found in the usual PayPal shipping options).

Kawasaki ZRX Owners Club

We have now moved the hosting of the ZRX Owners Club web site from an ezboard Inc. message board to a new hosted solution using vBulletin software. We have also deployed a summary of the Board for its home page, with the content delivered to the browser being dependant upon the registration status of the visitor.

In Other News...

...we mentioned last year a number of scams being operated that appeared to require domain name registrants to use other firms' services to renew them. Well, Nominet, the Internet registry for .uk domain names, carried this news story:

"Peter Francis-Macrae found guilty, gets six years

December 02 2005

Nominet UK, the .uk Internet domain name registry, has given decisive evidence at the trial of Peter Francis-Macrae, the man behind a series of domain name scams reportedly worth £1.6 million. Francis-Macrae has been sentenced to two years for fraudulent trading - which included his .uk domain name scam - and a year for other related offences.

Francis-Macrae was charged with nine offences, including fraudulent trading charges relating to the Domain Registry Services scam in 2004, and a blackmail charge in relation to threats he made to Nominet UK in November that year. He was found guilty of these offences, plus others including making threats to kill, in Peterborough Crown Court today.

Nominet UK's warning statements about the Domain Registry Services scam alerted .uk domain name users to the threat, and its initial civil litigation against Francis-Macrae (based on infringement of Nominet UK's rights in its WHOIS database) lead to large amounts of evidence being collected that was used in the criminal case. Nominet UK representatives gave extensive evidence in the criminal trial after 'denial of service' blackmail threats were made to the organisation by Francis-Macrae.

Edward Phillips, Nominet UK's Company Solicitor, said: "I am very pleased with this result. When we saw that the scam had spread to .uk domain names we took swift and successful action in the civil courts to stop it. We also offered help and assistance to the police to make sure that this man was properly convicted".

June 2005

Long Time, No Update

Phew! We've been so busy working on our Clients' sites, we've neglected our own!

Amongst the updates and new sites:

Easy (Ez) Revenue Management Solutions

We've carried out a complete redesign of the Client's web site within the overall corporate branding parameters set by the Client to match their traditional media advertising.

MotorcyclePrizes.com

The MotorcyclePrizes.com web site is up and running with a number of domain names all linking to different competitions within the same overall web site.

The Motorcycle Folly

We have now taken over the design and hosting of the Motorcycle Folly's web site. One of the main aspects of their new site is their Discussion Forum which uses the vBulletin Forum Software we mentioned last year, so much so that we've redesigned the general information areas to have a very similar look and feel to the Discussion Forum.

The site also features a Gallery of photos from their trackdays with the added function of an eCard system that enables a logged-in member to send images as virtual cards to their friends.

We've also integrated the two registration systems for the Forum and the Gallery to use the same membership database therefore meaning that registering to use one immediately registers the user to the other as well.

Haverhill Association of Voluntary Organisations

Another new site we've recently taken live is a small site for HAVO, written to be quick loading and accessible whilst still being attractive to view.

SightRightUK

And finally for this month, a holding page for SightRightUK whilst we await the main site copy and images, featuring separate styles for screen and printing.

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