The much anticipated Drupal 7 has launched. It is now easier to use An entirely revamped administrative interface makes your daily tasks easier to find and carry out. Many improvements were added specifically for website builders and content editors. Making website development and administration easier More flexible Define your own content structure and add custom fields to content, users, comments, and more.

Our client mima (middlesbrough institute of modern art are one of the first organisations within the arts to use crowdfunding to good effect. You can play a part in the commissioning process of this new work by Richard Forster. mima curator James Beighton is inviting funding partners to take part in conversations shaping this new commission from mima, that will go on to become part of the collection. Through this collaboration James Beighton is looking to explore the nature of the relationship between artist and curator.

We are using Userfly to peform advanced usability testing.
userfly.com provides instantaneous web user studies by recording user visits and letting you play them back to see every mouse movement, click, and form interaction. With userfly.com you can perform simple and cheap user testing with your real users.
Click here to visit the userfly.com website

Google has released an open-source Web security scanner called Skipfish that is designed to allow people to scan Web applications for security holes.

The tool scans a Web application for flaws including "tricky scenarios" such as blind SQL or XML injection, Google developer Michal Zalewski said in the Skipfish wiki.

Skipfish prepares a site map annotated with interactive crawl results, highlighting flaws, after a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probing of the target site. The tool can also generate a final report that can be used as a basis for a security assessment.

Caroline our Intern Web Developer has grabbed to opportunity to make the ISIMO green official, and has also incorporated into a neat colour palette, both of which can be found on ColourLovers.com.

ISIMO Green - http://www.colourlovers.com/color/A7DE00/ISIMO_Green
ISIMO Palette - http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/1244264/ISIMO

Let's hope others can enjoy this as much as we do! Stay tuned for more palette's from the team...

If you don't renew your .uk every two-years, it will become available for anyone to register.

If you register your domain name through ISIMO we will ensure that this never happens and that your website and email continues to operate uniterrupted.

What happens if my domain name expires?

• Your customers won’t know where to find your website anymore. This means no more access to the information you provide about your company online on your website, your customers won't know where to shop, and all that brand equity you’ve built up will be undermined.

fring is a free mobile application that lets users communicate with friends on popular networks over their mobile phone's internet connection.
fring users make free mobile calls, video calls, live chat & more, from their mobile phone with all their friends on fring & other internet services like Skype®, MSN Messenger®, GoogleTalk™, AIM®, ICQ® , Facebook® & Twitter, all through one central, integrated phone book. See the full feature list here.

Free of charge and ready to kick Google Docs' butt.

Microsoft has unleashed Office Web Apps, to bring Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote to the cloud hoping to apply its desktop dominance and ease Google Docs and OpenOffice into oblivion.

The free web applications are available to use now for anyone with a Windows Live account, after a months of beta testing on the SkyDrive platform brought positive feedback from users.

Google announced it would start phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 on Orkut and YouTube, and started pushing its users to modern browsers. The search giant has now given a specific kill date for old browser support on the video website: 'Support stops on March 13th. Stopped support essentially means that some future features on YouTube will be rolled out that won't work in older browsers.

Advised by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt and others, government is opening up data for reuse.
This site seeks to give a way into the wealth of government data. As highlighted by the Power of Information Taskforce, this means it needs to be:

* easy to find;
* easy to license; and
* easy to re-use.