It’s an unfortunate fact, but many businesses have had negative experiences with web developers. The global nature of the web and the ease with which an online company can be created with only a modicum of ability means that there are literally hundreds of companies fighting for your business. Hundreds of companies with limited skillsets using bargain basement pricing to hook your business.
There’s even a good chance your business has in the past gone into the website build process blind,
Read full post »1 commentsTags: buying a website, Bytewire, essex website design, web development, website design, website development
Over the weekend I took sometime to think about what makes a good MMO (massively multiplayer online) game. After giving it some thought and jotting down various combinations I decided that 5 points stood out for me more than any others.
Gameplay Variety
Release a “finished” game
Build a thriving economy
Make it easy to meet individuals / groups
Focus on the game and its story or theme
There is alot of reasons why these are very important factors when making an
Read full post »1 commentsTags: mmo game design, mmop game design, mmorpg game design, online game design, successful mmo
Yesterday here at Bytewire we had a most interesting debate about something which was seemingly un-important when it began. Let me explain the situation quickly before I dive right into the debate at hand.
Read full post »0 commentsTags: blue pill, importance of menus, long navigation menus, red pill, short navi, short navigation menus
Here at Bytewire we have the football fever! A few weeks ago whilst sitting in the summer sun enjoying a few quiet drinks after a kick about, some friends and us got thinking about upping the stakes a little bit this world cup, but we didn’t really know how or what we wanted to do. There were tonnes of people jumping on the dream team world cup site / apps wagon. But as there was no budget or any kind
Read full post »0 commentsTags: fifa, football, nike, predictor, world cup 2010
The last 2 years or so have been a huge learning curve for myself and Elliot, we’ve gone from novice programmers to learning and juggling 4-5 different programming languages on a daily basis. Some might say an impossible task, except….its not.
Read full post »0 commentsTags: learn to learn, personal development
At Bytewire we are often faced with long projects which are developed over many months, sometimes even years in the case of our biggest project Street Crime and it can often be demoralising to continue to work on the same project over such a long period of time. There can be times when you feel the project is not moving along as well as you would like or you are stuck in a bit of a rut.
Read full post »0 commentsTags: motivation, project, project motivation, Street Crime
Adding google adsense to a facebook application has been a rather taboo subject for the last few years that you have been able to develop applications fully. It is now however becoming easier.
Read full post »1 commentsTags: adsense, facebook, facebook applications, google adsense
close