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11 April 2016

The Horizon Interactive Awards, a leading international interactive media awards competition, has announced the 2015 award winners to highlight this year’s “best of the best” in interactive media production. LightMedia was recognized for their excellence with a Bronze award within the Health / Human Services category. LightMedia submitted the BAUS Public and Members website which was assessed by an international, volunteer panel of industry professionals with diverse...

03 March 2016

We are delighted to announce that the new website for the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) wins the 'Best in Class' Award in the Interactive Media Awards 2015. The Best in Class award is the highest honour bestowed by the Interactive Media Awards. It represents the very best in planning, execution and overall professionalism in the digital industry. In order to win this award level, a site has to successfully pass through a comprehensive judging process, an...

28 January 2016

Developing a great online community site is a painstaking process involving a wide range of different skills, including good communication, a thorough understanding of the community’s environment and culture and a lot of patience. For many agencies, a great website is all about what looks good on the page and how the imagery, fonts and colours work together. Whilst we also think this is important, unfortunately it’s not what creates an enjoyable or smooth experience for your...

28 January 2016

SSL and the newer version TLS are used commonly to protect people while communicating with e-commerce and online banking websites. This type of protection mitigates the risk of someone being able to observe what you are sending and receiving with the website. Let's have an in depth look at how the protocols of SSL/TLS work when you visit a https website. Architecture SSL/TLS has two layers of protocols which 'sit' on top of the TCP layer (OSI layer 4)....

13 August 2015

On a day when UK A-Level exam results are released showing an 11% rise in Computing students and an increase in the pass rates for the top A and A* grades, it's worth considering what kind of people it really takes to build great websites and web applications. The truth is that if you ask 100 different developers, you'll get 100 different answers! But what we all have in common is a love of solving problems, wherever we can find them. The kinds of challenges we look for vary...

03 August 2015

With so many high profile public internet hacks making the headlines almost weekly, you may be thinking that hackers are just targeting large enterprise companies. You may be thinking your company is too small in the eyes of a hacker. Infact, smaller companies could be easier targets as they are normally easier to penetrate, especially thier websites. Small companies are having data stolen every day, quite often without them knowing. I can't see them targeting...