The Amazing Cuttlefish
Why Cuttlefish? I'm often asked why we are called Cuttlefish and have settled on a 'stock' answer that goes something like this.
In around 1995 I was looking for a domain name for my home page. Rather than going for the obvious "seanclark.com" I thought I would choose something more interesting. At the time I was working with a diverse range of people and the subject of 'cuttlefish' seemed to crop up in conversations a surprising numbers of times. In particular, the way in which these remarkable creatures use colour to communicate fascinated everyone who was aware of it. This, combined with happy memories of collecting 'cuttlebones' on the beach as a child, suggested to me that 'cuttlefish.com' would be an interesting and memorable domain name.
I seem to recall that it took me ages to register it, at the time domain names were still free, but the registration process involved sending various obscure forms to the States by e-mail that were auto-processed (or not) and sent back other forms.
If you want to know more about cuttlefish and their fellow cephalopods, such as squid and octopus, then follow the links below. I would add - just in case you were about to e-mail us - I don't think I can help with your class project on cuttlefish, nor am I interested in buying a container of cuttlefish from a supplier to the Egyptian government, nor can I sell wholesale cuttlefish in the UK on behalf of Japanese companies, nor am I actually a cuttlefish, as one enquirer once asked...
Sean Clark
Director, Cuttlefish Multimedia Ltd
seanclark@gmail.com
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We were very pleased to hear that the Charnwood Borough council website has been assessed in the 2009 SOCITM Better Connected survey as being one of only 13 Shire District Councils in England to have a website with "Excellent Content".
We moved CBC over to a new version of our Content Management System last year and it's great to see that the hard work, both within the council and at Cuttlefish, has paid off Well done all.
We have launched two new websites this week. The site for Procraft Design Ltd (www.procraftdesign.co.uk) is a CMS site with Flash elements. Graphic design was by our regular collaborator Jason Marriot Design.
The new Spark Children's Festival site (www.sparkfestival.co.uk) contains a full programme for the Arts Council funded annual festival, with on-line ticket purchasing.
Cuttlefish Digital Arts has launched 'Stench' a new online community aimed at digital artists and experimental performers. The website makes use of our 'cSocial' community building system and has full social network integration. Go to stench.org.uk.
Our new site for Andy Reed MP is amongst the first to make full use of the latest version of our 'sPortals' content management system. Andy is a keen user of so-called 'Web 2.0' tools and his new site integrates content from his Flickr, YouTube and Twitter pages, as well as providing him with full blogging facilities. Visit his new site at andyreedmp.org.uk
We have launched a new content managed website for insurance brokers Blythin and Brown. See their new site at blythinandbrown.co.uk.