Cuttlefish today launch another cGov website, this time for Charnwood Borough Council.

Developed in parallel with North West Leicestershire District Council Charnwood's new website boasts the same new features including the popular 'My Charnwood' area.

'My Charnwood' allows residents to find out information about their property and locate nearby services all on a easy-to-use interactive map. Enter your postcode and try it for yourself.

Cuttlefish are proud to announce the launch of a new 'dot gov' website for North West Leicestershire District Council developed in partnership with Charnwood Borough Council.

North West are the second Leicestershire local authority to use our in-house cGov platform, the latest version includes a revamped navigation module, revised admin interface and all new 'My North West Leicestershire' feature.

Taking advantage of the back-end systems at the council 'My North West Leicestershire' gives residents a one-stop website to find out about their local area and council services.

Cuttlefish's extended family increased by one on Saturday night, we would like to wish a huge amount of congratulations to first time parents Justin & Claire, great work!

Now when will you be back at work?

Cuttlefish has been commissioned by Renaissance East Midlands to develop an exciting new location-based Internet system. "Empedia" will provide a range of tools to enable museums, libraries and archives to create interactive maps and exhibition guides that will be viewable on computers and mobile phones.

it is hoped that Empedia will become an ever-growing collection of maps, audio tours, picture trails, video trails and interactive guides that people can use to explore the rich culture of the UK's East Midlands. Users will be able access Empedia using a standard web browser on a desktop computer or laptop, but it will really come alive when used on a mobile device such as an iPhone. This will allow residents and visitors to the East Midlands to have Empedia - and all of the great content it will contain - with them wherever they might be.

The project officially started in April 2010 and development of the platform is progressing well. It will have a limited release in September 2010 followed by a full public launch in February 2011.

Cuttlefish is looking for expressions of interest in the project from museums, libraries and archives in the East Midlands. If you think you might want to add content to the Empedia system, or simply want to know more, then please contact Sean Clark at seanc@cuttlefish.com or telephone 01509 231233.

Cuttlefish have been working with Leicester based Promotional Product guru John Young for a number of years, over the past few months the MoJo Promotions website has been revamped with better features both for customers and the back end administration.

Along with a refreshed design the site has had an SEO overhaul and spawned a number of dedicated micro sites such as MoJo Promotional Pens, MoJo Promotional Bags, MoJo Eco Products and parent site to view the entire product range, MoJo Promotional Products.

Cuttlefish have once again given Loughborugh MP Andy Reed's campaign a boost with an updated website.

Having worked with Andy over the years we have great respect for his difficult and demanding job. To make things easier, his new website pulls information directly from his Twitter and Flickr accounts which he frequently updates throughout the day wherever he might be Along with this social media Andy also keeps his personal blog up to date regularly.

Update: Sadly Andy didn't quite manage to hang onto his Loughborough seat this time around therefore we imagine he'll be taking a well earned rest.

Cuttlefish and Charnwood Borough Council launch the third iteration of the long standing Charnwood Business website.

Dubbed as Charnwood's Essential Business Directory the website contains records for over 3,500 businesses in Charnwood. Using Cuttlefish's new cSocial platform it allows each business to manage it's own business profile, providing complete contact information, location and opening hours.

The site also allows companies to link up their twitter, flickr and linkedin accounts for simple social media integration, take a look at the Cuttlefish profile.

Cuttlefish has a strong in-house team, but we are always on the look out for good freelancers. At the moment we are looking for iPhone/Android Developers and CSS-based Graphic Designers. Your location is not important, but you need to be able to work both independently and, at times, closely with our core team at times to suit them. Please contact us with a short CV and examples of your work.

Cuttlefish has had its first App approved by the Apple iPhone Store. The Pineapster App gives members of our popular Pineapster community the ability to check news and events information and post to the discussion forums from the comfort of their iPhone.

We have a number of other applications for the iPhone in development so watch out for future announcements.

If you want to download the App then simply search the iTunes store for "Pineapster".

Since Google's recent announcement regarding the phasing out of support for Internet Explorer 6 within its Google Apps products pressure has mounted on various other organisations to drop the out-dated browser, including the UK Government.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) was first launched in 2001 and quite simply the technology has moved on. Because a number of users are still accessing web-pages using this out-dated browser, developers such as Cuttlefish are restricted in the use of newer techniques and methods that deliver a richer web experience.

Whilst we welcome this new pressure on consumers to upgrade to a newer version of Internet Explorer, or even an alternative browser, we will continue to test our projects on a wide selection of browsers, including IE6.

Where possible we allow IE6 to "fail gracefully" and still be usable by those 10-15% of users still using the the ageing browser, until ultimately these usage statistics drop even further.