Cat in SEO

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Katie

The newest member to the SEO team, Catherine has picked it up fast providing quality SEO advice to a number of our key clients.

Qualifications: 9 A-Levels in Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Music, Law, Criminology, Sociology, Psychology and General Studies

Work experience: An Account Manager for Smart Source UK between 2006 to 2008, Catherine worked on accounts for a number of clients including Rentokil, Pirtek, Terrapin, Chelsea Artisans, South Leicestershire College and Woodteam Ltd

Joined Soula: 2008 as a New Business Assistant, Catherine progressed to the position of SEO Executive towards the end of 2008

Hobbies: A member of the Nottingham Arts Theatre as a rehearsal pianist and Music Director, Catherine loves to scuba dive, read graphic novels and watch Japanese films in her spare time

Catherine’s darkest secret: “Cat hates bunnies after watching Watership Down. In all honesty who wouldn’t after watching all those evil bunnies?”- Katie Clarke, SEO Executive

Interesting fact about Catherine: “She’s hard-core! She did ballet for 12 years, is a grade 8 pianist, appeared on ‘A song for Christmas’ when she was 15 and has got more qualifications than you can shake a stick at!” –Rowena

Will IE9 Win You Away from FireFox or Chrome

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Katie

Microsoft were pleased to announce the new features available on their latest release at Mix10 conference yesterday in Las Vegas. IE9 will support HTML5 and more interestingly HTML5 video, for anyone that hasn’t had the chance to fully appreciate all that HTML5 will bring please read the post on HTML5 and SEO – we are really excited. Continue reading →

Row in Copywriting

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Katie

Never far from a chocolate bar or a dictionary, Rowena writes copy for all of Soula’s core internal and external clients, giving her a breadth of knowledge in a variety of different industries and niches.

Qualifications: BA (Hons) English, MA in Creative Writing (both at Nottingham Trent University)
Work Experience: involved in the writing, editing, proofreading and publication of her Universities MA anthology, Rowena has worked in a variety of fields – library assistant and retail – before joining the Soula team

Joined Soula: 2008 as a Copywriter

Hobbies: Keen to publish her MA dissertation as her first novel, Rowena loves spending her free time doing anything creative – painting, writing and organising her wedding.

Rowena’s claim to shame: “I have got devil horns, no joke. After my sister dropped me on a concrete floor – head first – when I was six, my forehead became more angular forming 2 distinct points at the side.”

Katy on Rowena: “Rowena is the number one person to sit next to at a dinner party. Because of her job she knows a bit of something about everything… from property prices in Kent to the latest Celebrity diet – this girl is like a fact machine!”

Anyone for a Picnik

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Katie

Yesterday Google announced that it was inline to buy Picnik, for those of you who don’t know Piknik improves your photos with easy to use editing tools, with the capability to apply and create effects, remove red eye and generally alter your photos to get a great picture. Google already own Picasa so this addition is definitely another interesting addition to their portfolio of recent acquisitions. Continue reading →

Meet The Team : James Web Developer

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Katie

James nearly joined the Royal Navy before luckily deciding that his career lay in online marketing (Phew!)

Qualifications: BSc Hons Multimedia Computing at Staffordshire University

Work experience: Prior to joining the Soula team, James spent a year out in Munich, Germany (during his sandwich year) working for the IABG, a Ministry of Defence contractor. Required to maintain and develop their department’s internal staff information portal, James worked on numerous other projects including improving communication between departments.

Joined Soula: 2008 as a Developer

Hobbies: An avid follower of extreme sports, James can’t seem to get enough of them. From exercising at the gym to playing football, if he could he would go snowboarding all the time. Outside of work, James likes listening to music and messing around with graphical design and digital art – anything do with multimedia

Some interesting facts about James: “I have got so many stories it’s scary. To sum up my best one though: I nearly became a fighter pilot in the Royal Navy; I once fell asleep while running home drunk (never a good idea); the first time I did a skydive my parachute failed and I once ate a fruit pastel sandwich – yum.”

Thinking on James when speaking to a female interviewee: “Yeah, I do the same as Chad, but better (flirt much!)”

IE6 to Die Out

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Katie

Working for a digital design company you soon hear of web designers love of all things IE6.

When designing a site you want all people that visit your site to see it the same which is why IE6 has been subject to a lot of hacks. Google recently announced that they would join other browsers and no longer support IE6. Googles shift coincides with a lot of problems concerning compatibility and outdated technology and was/is a concern for general security and stability. Continue reading →

New Puppy!

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Katie

This is Ollie, Our New Puppy!

As I have been fairly sensible with my last couple of posts I thought it was time for a not so sensible one.

Recently I made a deal with my partner that if he “needed” a new car I needed a puppy. I thought this was a good deal and tried to sell it to him, he didn’t seem convinced until he found the car he wanted and then the shoe was on the other foot and he had to convince me that it was ok for him to spend money on a car. Continue reading →

Digital Design Blog

New Media Design

Author Archives: Katie