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We're on the look out for a talented PHP developer who is confident in HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and jQuery and preferably also has experience with Photoshop.
Codeworks is a small software development company who specialise in creating organisation systems for businesses through web applications, this is your chance to join a fun vibrant team of developers with a company that is progressing fast.
Your role would include the development of tools within systems we've already created and creating new ones from a specification. You'll also be expected to help answer office calls, support clients with problems and get involved with new client projects.
Do not apply if you are not confident in PHP as this is vital to the role.
For more information visit our vacancies page: click here
Everyone loves a good sweet, especially the classics like the drumstick lolly, the small foam mushrooms, gobstoppers and toffee bon bons! We love making people happy, especially our developers; which is why there is always a handful of sweets at hand in the office for anyone to dip into if they're feeling peckish.
We decided last week to extend this to our fans, clients and friends of the world; we're giving away hundreds of sweets to a selection of our fans who decide to follow us on facebook and twitter. We need more than 1,000 followers by the end of August, and if we reach our target we'll be selecting 100 lucky random winners to receive sweets! You could win anything* from a drumstick lolly to a big bag of rasberry millions! In order for this to happen though we need to reach our target! Simply retweet our tweets, @codeworks mention us and share the love with your friends, the more you share the more chance you have of winning. We'd also love to hear what your favourite past time sweets are! We'll keep you updated with progress!
@codeworks - twitter.com/codeworks
We've made a little progress bar to see far we are away from our target, it updates once every 24 hours!
Well the Barry and District ‘summer’ league is truly in full swing and the team are enjoying playing so close to home. The Bridgend ‘Winter’ league has finally finished, however, the ladies are STILL waiting to receive information about what position they finished from the Bridgend officials.
Westend Ladies are still as dedicated as ever and have expanded since the winter months.
Since we began sponsoring the ladies they have grown in size (numbers not physically). There is talk amongst captains and coach that trials for the A and B team will be taking place this autumn. So watch this SPACE.... New players to join are Abi Ladner, Nina Huggett, Emma Hughes and Stephanie Lima.
The Barry league has started well for both teams and they are preparing for the Annual Versatility Tournament held on Sunday 24th July.
The A team have lost their centre court player Stacey Brown due to an injury. Stacey is currently in plaster and will miss the rest of the summer league. We wish her a speedy recovery and hope she is back fit for the start of the winter league. We also say congratulations to Rebecca Haysom who is expecting her first child, we know she is missed on court and will be welcomed on her return.
If anyone is interested in joining Westend Ladies, contact jenna@codeworks.org.uk.
Shw mae Hello
Its Jenna here, Codeworks’ latest person to fill a desk. Just writing to say a BIG hello to you all and to let you know that I will be working here this summer doing all the donkey work that Kev no longer has time for. I am sure I will get the opportunity to speak to you lovely people at some point, as my role is customer service based mixed in with a spoonful of design and marketing, sprinkled with a smile.
So who is this Jenna?
Well I have just finished studying at UWIC and graduate this coming July with a BA (Hons) in Graphic Communication. (I am now ready for the big, wide world).
Some of you may be aware that Codeworks’ sponsor a ladies netball team, Westend Ladies...well I play WD for them and it is a great way to socialise with friends as well as keeping fit. I am quite competitive however, and Kevin has already challenged me to a game of squash. (Have to confess, I have never played it).
So I will let you all know the outcome via twitter.
My role here in The Coach House is to make sure that you, (our customers) are happy with us, (the company)...So if you have any issues feel free to send me an email. jenna@codeworks.org.uk.
Chow for now
We haven't had an opportunity to talk much about our sponsorship of the codeworks westend ladies that started November last year, we're busy putting the final touches to their dedicated area on our website but we couldn't let the opportunity pass to tell you about the great work some of the team are doing to collect money for charity.
Our ladies from the codeworks Westend Netball Club braved the freezing cold waters at Whitmore Bay to take part in the recent ‘Dip with a Nip’ - to raise money for CLIC Sargent.
Each person registered had to pay £5 and raise at least £50 each - seven of the team took part and raised a fantastic total of £1,500 between them.
Well done girls!
Many of our customers ask us about how to take payments from their website, they're usually aware of the well known methods such as PayPal and Google Checkout; but these come with high costs in fee's which affects the price of the product they're selling.
The other alternative is to use your bank, which usually provides an internet supplier who deals with their online payments directly. This comes at an even higher cost than the previous mentioned methods due to high setup costs, further ongoing monthly costs and a percentage plus fee for every transaction made. This isn't so bad if you're turning over tens of thousands each month, but for the average small trader who has only just started trading online this is a large drawback.
For over a year now we've been using a different method that requires absolutely no setup fee*, no monthly costs and only a small percentage fee for each transaction. (The * simply refers to the type of account you setup with them, their highest setup fee is £50, which is hardly a deal breaker). This company is called Nochex - and you can find their website at www.nochex.com
You get a dedicated account manager to lease with, their card processor is very customizable, you're able to accept all credit and debit cards and the percentage fee is variable depending on how many transactions you plan to process. If there we're any downsides to this service it's that each transaction will appear on your customer's statements as "Nochex" and this isn't changeable, you do need to keep a certain amount of money in your Nochex account so that you can refund any customers at any point, and this sometimes can be quite high depending on how much you plan to process.
It's important to note this is not a sales pitch, we're not getting anything for recommending this service, we simply wanted to point you in the right direction of a good company that offers a good service, and we’ve used them for over a year and recommended many customers to them.
If you want to get an idea of how much money they might** take from your online sale use the little tool we've created below. (** the transaction fee is variable, you will need to agree this with your account manager, the standard is 2.9% + 20p which is what our calculation is using below.)
Enter the cost of the item you're selling below and we'll tell you how much Nochex would take as a fee.
If you visit often you may have noticed sections of our site which are not quite finished yet, mainly because we were that excited about the animations we ran out of time to finish some of the less exciting stuff off.
For example you can't quite filter the blog posts yet, not that there's enough to filter through because we decided to start fresh with the new design. But its something we definitely plan to get sorted by the end of the week ready for our new bloggers!
Last year we went on the lookout for a team of geeks who could help keep our little corner of the internet exciting, keeping you up to date with the latest technology news, announcements and gadgets!
Well there time has come to shine as we're about to unleash our new system on the very people who will keep you updated on all these delightful happenings. We'll still be posting company news, announcements and tweets so make sure you start using the filter functions on the right hand side!
I'm very exhausted, proud to present to you our brand new website! With tons more content, updates, news, tutorials (to come), and extensive portfolio! It's finally a place we can show off exactly what we do and how we do it!
We still have a lot of fans out there for our old design and interactive office so we wanted to make sure it stayed with the site! So if you're missing a bit of monkey madness head over to the homepage and launch the interactive office!
It's been a few months in the making, we wanted to extend upon our flash interactive office from the last design but make it to available to everyone so we delved into jQuery animation and while working with one many great designers we made animation available to the masses, without flash! Go on, try it on your mobile, or your ipad! It's a taster of whats to come inside our great software for 2011.
Thanks for visiting, take a good look around and enjoy the hard work we've spent putting all of this together! Don't forget to become a fan on facebook and follow our twitter as there are definitely more updates to come!
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