The arrival of a new member in the company has always been an event to be celebrated, so we can’t wait to express our satisfaction for welcoming on board Emil – our first and brand new system engineer.
For almost two months now he’s been working hard to put some order in our hosting infrastructure. The latter is not a piece of cake as the number of servers is steadily growing and living in a world where even Amazon have cloudy Fridays the sanity is vulnerable and the stress is taking over.
But having Emil on our side – a server whisperer, Python zealot and a Django fan – the team is in full force to cope with any adversity the web could throw at us.
And what is more important – at last Milen can have his good night’s sleep not having to worry about the clouds in the web sky.
We’ve been busy lately with some stuff going on, so skipped posting for a couple of weeks. The main reason for the blog silence was the relocation of Milen, our managing director, (closely followed by his personal copywriter) in Wales in the beginning of August, so enjoying the English weather and the warm welcome Cardiff gave us was the main issue for a week or two and proved to be time taking for some of us, who are currently catching up with sharing the latest news about our projects.
Hopefully we are back on track and have a few new things to show you.
First of all we would really like to share what a wonderful job the Hugh’s Fish Fight website is doing. Last week the 4th episode was played on Channel 4 and we definitely hit some new records of public interest. The web site scored some of the highest numbers of visits we’ve seen and we are really proud of it managing to meet all the interest. Previously in the campaign our team expanded the range of the site and it went international – now it’s live and functioning on 11 different European languages.
The campaign is already making fisheries policy change and it wouldn’t be so successful unless it was the perfect combination of powerful and charismatic impact of the initiative and the strong and stable support of http://www.fishfight.net/.
Our arrival in UK was the perfect time for launching another MTR Design project – http://www.lifeinukthetest.co.uk/ which is quite a coincidence to start with. This site can give you some really useful information – something we could say for sure trying it at our moving to UK. So did lots of people who have benefited from it for the last couple of weeks (as free from the website stats). The website provides a throughout information about the history, society and everyday life in UK and scrolling through the variety of lessons one can receive the best chances to pass the British Citizenship Test.
We are having great time in Cardiff. And no wonder as the Dizzyjam headquarters is situated here together with its most eminent members – Daf and Neil who are dangerously familiar with the club life in the Welsh capital. Well it hasn’t been exactly partying all night long during the last two weeks, mostly because of the many thing we had to deal with. Nevertheless the results are dizzying at the end of the day and make us happy the morning after. Some of these are the new feature of Dizzyjam – embeddable shops.
The Dizzyjam shop owners now have at their disposal a tool which helps them set and embed their shop on their own websites. Following few easy steps every merchandiser can integrate the functions and adjust the looks of their shop in their own web space, thus gaining more popularity in the crowded merch scene.
Well, that’s all for now. A humble sunray is sneaking through the clouds so we’ll try to catch it. All of you – our lovely UK friends and partners, feel free to join us any time you are around – just give us a call and we will find time for a beer and a talk.
We are absolutely delighted to announce the launch of our new Facebook app dedicated to our beloved project Dizzyjam.
Diversification is the key to success. So now the artists can be successful merchandisers using not only their account on Dizzyjam, but making their Facebook profile work for them as well. And after all the more the pub - the more the fans – both results – multiplying the sales and the growing number of fans are gratifying. Just install the Dizzyjam Facebook app and enjoy your fans’ number boost.
The app is quite simple to manage and unobtrusively mingles with the interface of your Facebook page. It’s easy to install and configure, even easier to use and is a real business galvanizer.
So have a nice time on the web and feel free to be seen everywhere with your wonderful designs.
Although we could hardly call him “our” client (after all we are only web developers), some of the most interesting projects we have been working on were for his companies.
Internet definitely will not save the world, but I personally haven’t found yet a better way for meeting some of the best minds on the planet. Jamie is surely one of them: a person with a clear purpose, that excites and inspires thousands with his wishes big enough to change the world.
Hardly anyone (even in Bulgaria) could recall that MTR Design was started in 2005 as a design department of the highly successful Bulgarian online magazine Media Times Review.
Today, five years and a hundred completed projects later, we have established our UK branch, and it is pretty clear that 2010 will be for us an exciting year!
In our work we overcome many challenges, and constantly learn new stuff, so we thought it would be good to have a team blog, where we could share some useful info with you. Here we will be posting project updates, hot news and cool ideas! Keep an eye on it.
Milen is a Project Manager, and a co-founder of MTR Design. He is also the first point of contact for our clients, and is personally “guilty” for the successful completion of a long list of web projects. Throughout the years he was responsible for the crafty befriending of clients such as: The Electric Sheep Company, River Cottage, BAA, and many other happy “victims”.
Nikolay is a former salesman turned Marketing | Business Development | Project Manager, and a co-founder of MTR Design. He is also the last point of contact for our clients due to his imaginable inability to improve his level of English. Throughout the years he successfully produced a number of inappropriate ideas for web applications, but to this very day his status of a “co-founder” keeps him steady in the team.
There is also a whole bunch of other highly suspicious individuals at MTR, that must be mentioned as they love being noted. Elena, Velentin, Stanislav, Vladimir, Marush and Alex all say hello to you.
See you around!
