The dpivision.com Ltd Weblog

Swashbuckling is an activity normally carried out on the high seas.

But piracy is as rife as ever online.

Notice anything familiar about these screenshots?

You’d be forgiven for thinking someone had got their hands on our carefully crafted creations but unfortunately, that’s not the case.

After a quick trawl of the Internet, our research revealed there are plenty of websites out there imitating both our www.dpivision.com and www.cannybill.com.

It’s just a good job we’re all flattered by it here!

dpivision.com Ltd – Original

Pirate Site 1

Now this person really hasn’t bothered to change very much at all!

Pirate Site 2

And again, another company taking our design and just adding their logo but worst of all, doing a terrible job of it!

CannyBill – Original Site

Pirate Site 1

Well again not much effort has been put in to change our original design. They’ve changed the logo and some text but that’s about it!

Pirate Site 2

Well this is not a pirate site as such, just someone taking our CannyBill and Tradingeye sites and featuring them in their own portfolio!

Come and meet and greet the Dpivision.com Ltd team as we host the after hours fun to a day with a top designer.

Designer and author Andy Clark from Stuff and Nonsense is stopping off in Newcastle to host an Advanced CSS Styling workshop at the Copthorne Hotel in October.

And we have joined forces with him to host and sponsor an evening of socialising at The Salsa Club, giving people the chance to unwind, swap top tips and beef up their contacts book.

The one-day masterclass offers ideas on how to use the most up-to-date CSS techniques of the moment, including:

- How to design balanced, inspired layouts using advanced CSS positioning techniques
- New ways to work with colour using RGBa
- Using multiple background and border images
- How to use text and box shadows
- About CSS gradients, reflections and transitions

Places are running out very quickly so book your place now!

http://forabeautifulweb.com/announcing/newcastle_upon_tyne_2009/

For the CannyBill sponsored after party, we are extending the invitation to our customers.

So come along and say hello to the team at The Salsa Club, West Gate Road, Newcastle on October 30 from 6.30pm onwards and fill yourself up with some of the tastiest free nachos and best Mexican beer.

Just so we know how much free food and booze to order, drop us a line to say you’ll be coming at info@dpivision.com.

We have been invited to join some of the country’s most prestigious digital people at an exclusive event.

Next week, we will be heading to the capital with one of just six North East-based businesses selected to attend the High Growth conference.

As part of the conference, which aims to give software and technology-based businesses the chance to explore strategic partnering, flotation or equity finance, we will be meeting with top bods at Microsoft, Google and Silicone Valley businesses.

We will also be given the chance to meet some potential corporate customers and be given advice on how to develop our business.

Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, project manager, said: “This is another great chance to spread the word about the work we do to some of the world’s biggest companies.”

Looking after our customers has always been a top priority for us and to say a big thank you for all our hard work, Steve, of Singleframe Media, sent us a treat to help us pile on the pounds.

He sent a whole box of Cadbury Cream Eggs to head office, which were all troughed within seconds by the hungry hordes at Dpi towers.

We were all over the moon when the box, complete with the note:

“Just a little thank you to all the guys for the hard work and the support over the past year! Kind Regards Steve Fairhurst Singleframe Media”,

Thanks Steve – not only did you help us fill our faces, the lads were so stuffed they couldn’t leave their desks to take their lunch break

After almost a year of development, testing and refinement, the latest release of the standards-based online shopping cart system www.tradingeye.com is finally here, and available for purchase.

The reboot of the award-winning software brings many new user-requested features, such as language packs, an Ebay feed, a new zone-based postage system, many extra shipping promotions, and both Google and Yahoo XML site maps for search engine submissions.

http://www.tradingeye.com/feature-list.php

As well as a completely redesigned admin panel, this latest release of Tradingeye adds multiple image galleries, a reworked navigation system and a new one-page checkout process, allowing even easier online shopping for your customers.

Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, Managing Director at dpivision.com Ltd., the Newcastle upon Tyne-based software development team behind the product states “Version 6 offers a lot more than the highly-regarded version 5, and will appeal to a much wider market. We have built on the success of version 5 and added many more features to benefit not only retailers looking to get into e-commerce, but also web development companies.”

For more information of the software, check out the all-new www.tradingeye.com site, where you’ll find out all you need to know, including a full feature list, live online demo, and our revised pricing plans.