Steve from Vingo.tv approached us with a problem - their existing Java chat widget had broken and they felt it was time for something faster with better cross-browser compatibility and improved reliability. Read more…

At BrainBakery we specialise in PHP, MySQL, AJAX and other web technologies, but occasionally we do a bit of design for our clients and our own web apps; for example, the sumo.tv facebook app was one we had full design reign over. However, for the most part we partner with design expert friends of ours like Caffeine Hit and Display Digital. But we’re a big fan of tinkering with designs, so specialising in code sometimes leaves us with a vacuum of design lust.. which is invariably sated by re-designing the BrainBakery site a few times a year.

What follows is a gallery of some of our old and more well-loved designs for BrainBakery.com: Read more…

There’s few things I like doing more during the daytime than turning my hand to a bit of JavaScript, so when karaoke startup LuckyVoice asked us to create a rich interface to for their users to create their own singing lists, I had to accept.

Even with the aid of the mootools JavaScript library, this was a fairly hefty bit of work. Peter wanted an AJAX search; songs that could be added with double-click, drag and a button; re-ordering; animations… you name it. Oh, and it had to work in pretty much every known browser! Feel free to check out the live version at LuckyVoice Playlist.