Required Skills

• Strong experience creating interactive web applications and interfaces using HTML5 and appropriate technologies including CSS3, Canvas, Offline Storage, SVG, Audio/Video media

• Strong experience working with MooTools, jQuery and/or other JavaScript libraries including AJAX.

• Strong working knowledge of Photoshop; able to slice up concepts provided by the creative team in PSD format.

• Experience in developing accessible solutions.

• In depth knowledge of creating maintainable, scalable and cross-browser layouts supporting all major browsers (IE6-9, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera).

• Ability to work in a team environment, you will be required to work well with the existing development / creative teams.

• Familiar with source control principles and comfortable with Subversion.

Experience

We’re looking for somebody who has at least 3+ years of experience within the industry with at least some of it working in an agency environment. We will require example work that showcases your skills with HTML5/Canvas.

Fluid are always open to new ideas, new people, new talents and new concepts, so if you’ve got ideas and want a job where you can have a real impact, you’ve come to the right place.

To apply please send a covering letter and CV detailing experience and sample code/websites that demonstrate your skill set to careers@fluidcreativity.co.uk.

Strictly NO agencies

Fluid Creativity do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies

Web development applicants MUST be eligible to live and work in the UK and may be required to attend an interview based in Manchester, UK.

The term retro for myself conjours images of 80’s arcade games, and as far as I’m concerned a game is only worth playing if there is a cheat available for giving you a complete set of powers, infinite gold and as many optional extras as can fit on a screen. The result of this as you can probably guess, is that I don’t play games very often.

Probably the most famous cheat code ever incorporated into a game is the Konami code or “up up down down left right left right b a” which was written in 1985 by Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a games developer who was trying to port the arcade game “Gradius” to the NES.

Over the years the code has been ported for use on the web and today around 120 sites are known to implement it (or have used it in the past).

My idea of using it stemmed from April fools day where I wrote a set of scripts to turn the blog upside down as both a technical exercise and a practical joke. Not wanting to lose this code I stored it until such a time I could find a way of re-incorporating it in a less intrusive manner.

The problem with the original scripts was always flash. On a blog which references youtube and vimeo, how do you make these appear upside down natively in the browser without creating extra work? The answer, as it appeared was CSS3.

CSS3, for all you non-techies is an emerging technology for the internet which describes the styling of web pages. The latest incarnation (version 3) which is still in development allows for some pretty cool stuff including animation, rotation, drop shadows and much much more, all completely native to the browser.

Amongst the properties available in CSS3 is the transform property which can be used to rotate, scale, skew or distort any element on the page. Setting this to rotate: 180deg produces pixel perfect rotation to the entire document. Coupling this with a short script to capture the cheat sequence hidden somewhere in the website code means that at least as long as this version of our site exists, it will be browsable upside down.

Why not check it out now: “up up down down left right left right b a”

We are looking for someone who possesses a thirst for knowledge with an up-to-date understanding of current web trends, technologies, standards and techniques. Experience in any of the following would be a distinct advantage: Magento. Zend Framework, JavaScript, W3C standards, ASP (VBScript), Linux, XML and UML.

Fluid Creativity are a small army of super creative coders, designers, artists, writers and relentless marketers. With an award winning, multi-talented team we combine our creative forces to develop original ideas, fantastic designs, wonderfully crafted websites and seamless web applications.

We’ve got a hard working but friendly culture, you can leave your shirt and tie at home unless the Queen is dropping by. The studio is pretty cool too with a large meeting room complete with a Nintendo Wii, there’s a small gym for all you fitness bods and we’ve even got a space agency trying to put a man into orbit right next door, how many digital agencies can say that?

Fluid are always open to new ideas, new people, new talents and new concepts, so if you’ve got ideas and want a job where you can have a real impact on the business you’ve come to the right place.

To apply for this position with Fluid Creativity, please send a covering letter, cv detailing experience and sample code that demonstrates your skillset to careers@fluidcreativity.co.uk

If any of you lovely folk that read our blog know someone that might fancy working for us please pass on our details.

• Strictly NO agencies
• Fluid Creativity do not accept speculative C.V’s from recruitment agencies and will not be bound by terms and conditions we have not signed over C.V ownership.
• Web development applicants MUST be eligible to live and work in the UK and may be required to attend an interview based in Manchester, UK

The survey found that finding additional sources of revenue is the top priority for most business owners, but that many did not have “the Marketing skills to exploit their industry know-how”.  Those that were being successful were using digital marketing to attract new customers, and the article particularly mentioned search engine optimisation, or SEO.

One printing company hired a specialist to optimise their website, and their MD said, “We have found that embracing internet marketing has helped to reinvigorate our recession-hit sales”, adding that the SEO approach had “opened up an alternative market for us”.

SEO is certainly an area we recommend companies invest some time and money in, and Fluid Creativity can demonstrate excellent returns on investment in a number of industries through this work.

Robertson comments: “For many small and medium-sized companies, websites have become an important shop window that offer an opportunity to attract customers who would not normally have come across their businesses.  But even in the digital world it is important to stand out and search engine optimisation has become a key marketing tool”.

We would agree that if you do not stand out and if the right prospects are not finding your website your internet investment will not bring in the traffic and online conversions it could.

Fluid Creativity offers a free Website Health Check to ensure that your site is bringing in the visitors you want, and that they are interacting and engaging with you once they’re on your site.  Don’t assume that this was done when your website was built – many web developers neglect to include it in their web builds, and significant gains can be made by reviewing your site.