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...]

When Channel4 approached us, their goal was clear; their current blog system was causing them issues, and they needed to launch a new blog to coincide with their recent mission to reach out to their audience and get their thoughts about the future of Channel4. The blog solution had to share aesthetics with the existing C4 properties, and the hardware had to withstand tens of thousands of hits per hour during the peak periods. However - and here was the catch - it had to be launched from scratch in a week!

On Friday, Jof went into C4 and setup his laptop in their cafeteria. By the end of the day, he’d liaised with their design department and the other stakeholders, setup a server, installed wordpress, written the php templates and got the blog to the point the customer was happy with it. Over the weekend he tweaked the CSS/PHP and, after their approval, launched it the following Monday!