You might have noticed our new showreel on the homepage of our site. We’ve created a short introduction to who we our and what we do. Along with this we’ve asked some of our clients to tell us what their experience of working with Viziononline was like. We hope you enjoy taking a look.

Along with this we’ve recently been working on creating flash tours for some of our clients, these short videos give a quick run through of how the client’s site works and the features contains within them.

To put all of these together we’ve created a Youtube page – you’ll find all of these videos along with some great beauty tips from another client of ours, Jemma Upton.

You can find our You Tube page at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/viziononline

Today marks a historic moment in time for the internet and world wide web. Today is the 25th anniversary of the registration of the very first .com website address. Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts have the honor of registering this. That same year saw just five other companies register an address. Nowadays, 668,000 dotcom sites are registered each month!

It’s amazing to think that something which is now such a fundamental part of our lives is just 25 years old. So many internet related things have entered the language – “Googling”, looking on wikipedia, emailing, surfing…. these would have meant nothing 25 years ago.

What the future holds is anyone’s guess – last week in a poll, 4 out of 5 people agreed that internet access should be fundamental human right. Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter believes that social networks will become the defacto way that governments and businesses will communicate with us. With the election coming very soon it’ll be interesting to see how the parties use this to try and get our votes…. watch this space!

Art should, in our opinion, always create an impact upon the viewer. Miroslaw Balka’s “How it is”, the latest in the series of Unilevel installations in the Tate Modern’s turbine hall, does just that, and in a big way. Almost looking like part of the turbine hall itself, the sculpture/installation, from the outside, looks just like a giant shipping container on stilts. As you walk around and under it you can hear footsteps and echos and it’s only then clear that it is something that you walk into.

This doesn’t prepare you for the vast black empty space that you are presented with as you reach the foot of the ramp into the work. And if that’s spoilt what’s there for you – nothing can spoil or come close to capturing the effect that you feel when you walk into this work. It’s unsettling both from a emotional and a physical perspective.

It’s been a while since a piece of art has had this much effect upon the viewer.

“How it is” is at the Tate Modern until 5 April 2010  and is free to visit.

Two interesting stories about Microsoft have emerged this week and both about their browser Internet Explorer. From today if you have IE installed as your default browser and automatic updates turned on, you will presented with large message : “An important choice to make, your browser”. You will then be offered the choice of downloading one of 12 browsers including Internet Explorer. If you choose to keep IE you will be prompted to download the latest version (if you don’t have it. This interestingly leads onto the next story.

It seems that, much to the relief of countless web-developers and web-designers, support for Internet Explorer 6 is finally going to be dropped. Why is it hated so much? Well, not only is it buggy, but it’s also lacking in any kind of compatibility with modern web standards, not to mention it’s age (it was released in 2001) . Just last year a group of frustrated developers got together to form www.ie6nomore.com.

How will this happen? Basically from 1st March Google announced that it no longer supports it, youtube are thought likely to drop support on the 13th … and these two players pack a punch. Of course Google has a good reason to want shot of IE6 – it was a flaw in the security of this browser that allowed hackers to get into the Gmail accounts of  Chinese human rights activists….

If you’d like to pay your last respects to the browser, a web design agency in Denver have set up a rather nice website:

http://ie6funeral.com/