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Last week we had the pleasure of meeting groups of secondary and 6th form students, from across Norfolk, who attended Your Future in Digital. Hosted by Norfolk Network, YFID 2011 aimed to give students hands on experience of working in the digital sector and was a massive triumph with hundreds of young hopefuls attending.
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Marketing yourself in the digital industry
17.11.2011 By: emily">emily Under: General, Industry News, Soak Related Comments: none
CSS3 Thinking outside the box
06.04.2011 By: adamcollison">adamcollison Under: CSS, Soak Related, Technical Comments: none
CSS3 Child Element Detection… Is it possible?
I was recently asked by a fellow developer if there was a way to detect if a HTML object contains a certain element and alter the CSS styles depending on the element it contains.
The Scenario:
“You want to target all anchor elements containing a link to a pdf BUT if the link to the pdf contains an image you don’t want the same styling to apply:”
Creating your dream Christmas
08.12.2010 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Creative, Just for fun, Soak Related Comments: none
Christmas may be just around the corner, but at Soak we’ve been feeling all festive for quite some time as we’ve been working on a Christmas themed mini-site called Where’s your dream Christmas? The idea is to allow people to plot their fantasy Christmas escape, free from screaming kids and dozing grandparents.
Soak Team Building day
01.12.2010 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Just for fun, Soak Related Comments: none
Last week we all took a day off to take part in that dreaded workplace event, the Corporate Team Building day. Luckily working in a creative agency like ours means that instead of forced awkward pairings with that weird guy from the IT department (we’re all that guy in this company) we had an absolute blast, quite literally!
On Work Experience
22.10.2010 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Soak Related Comments: none
For the past two weeks we’ve had Harley in the office on a work experience placement. Initially this led to much nostalgia amongst the Soak team about past experiences, Eugene spending a week typing phone numbers or Steve sanding down a desk (both true stories), but luckily we’re not as cruel and heartless as those employers and we set Harley a decent and pretty challenging project to do.
Refreshing Soak
15.04.2010 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Creative, Soak Related Comments: none
Soak is one year old, and what a year it’s been! We’ve grown from a core team of six to eleven full-time employees, plus a network of freelancers that we work with. Our client base has also grown dramatically and it was decided that it was time to refresh the Soak brand and website, in order to reflect how far we’ve come in such a short time.
