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Here is Tim’s version of the event (although the facts are not corroborated and we are still unsure if it wasn’t all a dream)…

“Me and a bunch of mates took on the Brechfa Enduro 36k race on Sunday 13^th July. We are collectively known as the JNT (Just Not Textbook) group and we entered two teams of 3 people.

The course was pretty intense, made up of Red (Abergorlech) and Black (Raven) trails. This was the first time bikers were officially allowed on the new Raven (Black grade) trail (though between you and me, we’ve been doing sections of it for a while). The new black route is absolutely amazing! There’s a series of table tops that wouldn’t look out of place on Moto-X circuit, they’re massive!

We were blessed with some great weather on the day, though some of the ‘natural trail’ sections were still a bit sticky from bad weather last week. We set off at 10 o’clock and 2 hours 59 minutes later we rolled over the finishing line. We’d managed to pass a few bikers en route after the staggered start, but were not sure where we placed overall.

We were informed at the finishing line that we were the first back! 18 minutes later our other team rolled home, they were placed second overall! A big 1-2 for the JNT posse!

We kicked back and took on a few guest ales at the Black Lion and watched the crazy 72k bikers roll in. A great day, we’ll be back again next year!”

As demand for the latest version of our .NET Content Management System picks up, we have recruited for a brand new Implementation Team.

Leading the team will be our own Jon Jones and the two new boys, James Pugh and John Jones (yes, it’s pretty confusing for us too!) will be working on the CSS template development and integration.

Matt Howard, S8080 Technical Director said “We were absolutely delighted when Jon accepted the challenge of managing the new team. Over the years, he has helped us streamline the process of slotting the look and feel into the CMS and our web applications. With his new team behind him, these guys are really going to take what can be done with CSS to the next level”

The latest version of our .NET based CMS has just been rolled out into the brand new MBWales.com. Bryn Halliwell of Visit Wales who runs the website said “On first seeing the feature list for the new S8080 CMS, I was honestly surprised how similar it was to my own CMS feature wish list”.

“Any features I had thought of or seen in use on other systems were included.

From the straight forward [Social network integration, user friendly URLs and inbuilt site content searching] to the more advanced. [advanced Google map integration, multi template e-broadcasts, bespoke blog engine with comment and ratings functions and news and events feeds with tag cloud and auto archiving functionality.] All were covered”.

S8080 are well known for our comprehensive and thorough Information Architecture (IA) and Usability consultancy. We have built and refined our unique and scalable process over a number of years and now we are expanding our team.

We are happy to welcome recent graduate, James Frost to the IA team. James will be helping to hone the process further and will be charged with developing a new IA product aimed squarely at smaller organisations.

“Enabling SME’s to take advantage of our expertise has been an aim of ours for a while now. We have developed a User Testing service aimed at smaller businesses and organisations allowing them to really understand what is wrong with their old site before they invest in a brand new one” said Matt Howard, our Technical Director and Usability Expert. “Now we are working on refining and improving our high end IA consultancy, and at the same time, developing a cut down version that will pretty much guarantee that a website will be successful. It’s a bold claim, but it works”