Label Blog

The Label Media team has just sent three ideas to the BBC in the hope of securing a place at the up and coming BBC Labs. We’ve entered one idea based around mobile and web based content and two around social networking within the music genre. This year over 2000 ideas were submitted which means the competition is high as ever, hopefully we’ll tick the right boxes.

Other news is we’ve secured three new clients so far in Jan, Explosion Promotions, Right Angle PR and Sunderland College, the team is looking forward to working on these new projects and producing some great work. Sunderland College is another fantastic education based client for us along with Kings College London and Aim Higher Yorkshire and Humber.

We are recruiting a new Junior Developer; the job advert will be up on Monster soon, applicants please send your CV’s to jobs@labelmedia.co.uk.

Lastly I’d like to welcome Maddie to the Label Media team. Maddie will be starting in Feb as an account manager; we are all looking forward to working with her and hope she enjoys her time here.

First thing’s first - welcome to Label Media’s new blog!

We decided it might be fun to try to maintain a regular journal of life at Label, comments on our ongoing work, interesting articles and comments, design and development tips and tutorials and the like. So please do stay tuned; heck, why not subscribe to our RSS feed while you’re here.

So - who are we?

Well i’m Sam, one of the web developers here at Label. My day to day tasks usually involve making updates and amends to the various websites we run for our clients. In addition to this usual maintenance, I spend my time building the HTML and CSS that makes up the visual appearance of the sites you see, write Javascript for the fancy bits, and program the backend scripts which tie it all together, usually in a language called PHP with a database engine called MySQL which holds the data. I’m also jointly responsible for the work on our proprietary Content Management System, which we call LabelEd.

We do have a demo of that available if you’d like to see, although you will have to contact us for access.

Of course i’m not the only guy here, so i’ll lead on to Rich..

Hi, I’m Rich one of the Directors at Label Media, I look after the design side of things at the company. Design has been my passion for the past 20 years and I’m still learning new techniques and thinking up new idea’s everyday.

Sam and I have been working on updating the Label website with new work, please take a look and let us know what you think.

We’ll get the others to add their updates asap. :-p

At Label Media Ltd we are always looking at new technologies and trying to stay on the cusp of our industry, developing new ways of doing things. We see spending time off commercial projects and working on “in house” development projects very beneficial to the development of our staff and the company. Using a Research & Development environment we’ve looked into technological advances in the field of unique interface design and experimental development. One such project is LabelED which is a constantly evolving R&D project, a working version of which is available online at: http://labeled.labelmedia.co.uk/If you’d like to view a demonstration of the LabelED backend, please contact Richard Turnbull or Simon Latham on 0113 2458870.