Written by Daniel Ashton | 06 September 2011

Some of you will already know I lead a bit of a double life, I'm a member of the Salcombe Lifeboat Crew, not something you'd usually accociate with a web designer. A couple of years ago my roll as a crew member expanded to becoming Salcombe's volunteer lifeboiat press officer, it's my job to manage the out put of media from the station. As part of this I set up salcombelifeboat.co.uk. A website that has become quite a beast. The RNLI have volunteer press officers all around the coast and last year they launched the new press centre on rnli.org.uk. It gives press officers the ability to upload their news releases directly to the central RNLI website. This is a fantastic development, but it now means on top of updating the station website, updating our social networks and editing the video we take during recues I now have to do another major update. With this in mind I have set about streamlining my updates, I have begun to integrate the press centre into the station website and I am using the mighy TweetDeck to manage my output across the social networks. I'm only hoping that the RNLI expand the use of RSS on rnli.org.uk so I can feed content through to our station website.

Written by Daniel Ashton | 19 July 2011

The phone hacking saga has dominated the news for the past few weeks, it's not an industry we're too unfamiliar with here it Salcombe Web Design. Our head design also doubles up as an RNLI press officer and whilst at university write a dissertation on the subject of mass media and cultural manipulation. Today all the resignation statements have been made public, the mist apparent thing is how short these statements are, and when checking their use of words it's interesting to see how few mention the word sorry. Here's the latest from The Guardian Newspaper - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Written by Daniel Ashton | 27 June 2011

You might already know that Salcombe Web Design are big fans of everything Apple. Including the amazing iPhone4. So you can imagine how excited we are to hear that the neww release of Apple's iPhone 5 is rumoured to be happeing in September. Find out more at our partners website www.baytekvoiceanddata.com

Written by Daniel Ashton | 26 June 2011

There are 3 easy ways you can keep up to date with my blog. First off every good blog should come with syndication. You an read all about rss syndication here.. Every time I update my blog I'll post a feed to Twitter and Facebook with a link to the new blog item, I do this using Tweet Deck on my smartphone. In fact I'm updating this blog right now from my smartphone using the BlogPress app. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone