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A great job for a Junior ASP .NET Web Developer (VB).

We are looking for a talented junior developer to join our technical development team.

Ideally, you will have some .NET experience, but then again, if you are a graduate level and love coding, let us know
In this role, you’ll be supporting, rolling out and in the future ,helping to develop our existing suite of applications and solving technical problems. You’ll be passionate about coding to the very highest professional standards and have an interest in the internet that borders on the obsessive.

Essential Skills

• Beginner knowledge of ASP.NET 2.0  – in VB.Net (or C# if willing to convert to VB)
• Familiarity with Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010
• T-SQL / Basic SQL (and an understanding of the concepts of Stored
• Procedures, Views, Triggers, User Functions)
• Knowledge of Relational Database Design
• Familiarity with SQL 2000/2005/2008 Management Studio an advantage
• Understanding of Object Oriented Programming
• Javascript

Desired but not essential

• jQuery
• AJAX
• CSS
• XML
• XHTML
• Microsoft Office Suite – Specifically Excel and Access

Roles and Daily Duties

• Product Technical Support
• Roll out CMS
• Involvement with the maintenance of S8080 CMS
• QA and testing of in-house technical projects to a high level
• Development of entry level technical solutions (small-medium sized applications)
• Creation of technical documentation (Technical Specifications, User Guides etc)

You’ll be working in our Swansea SA1 offices, a stones throw from the sea, in a fast paced, creative environment with 16 talented people. Ranging from ultra-techies, front end web developers and creatives through to unfeasibly organised project managers and information architects, our team work hard and enjoy what they do – this gives us very happy clients and lots of high profile exciting work to do.

You’ll have a pension, plenty of professional development opportunities, good holidays, flexible working, a state of the art working environment and the chance to work with the sort of clients Welsh agencies only normally dream about. And most importantly, we pay good people well.

Just send your CV and a quick covering email with salary expectations to Matt Howard at jobs@s8080.com

We look forward to hearing from you.

Absolutely no recruitment agencies.

A very happy New Year to you all.

Back in July ‘10, one of our email designs for the 2010 e-Crime Wales summit was featured in the Campaign Monitor gallery.

Just before Christmas, we noticed that it had been picked up by the excellent inspirationfeed blog as one of ‘45 eye-opening examples of email newsletter designs’ – you can find it at number 15.

We are proud to be featured alongside such amazing work.

PS. Take a look at the new year banner we put together for e-Crime Wales if you have a moment (it’ll only be around for a short time) – the site is chock full of useful advice to help businesses protect themselves.

We would like to welcome a brand new client, the Welsh Language Board. We have just completed an email campaign piece for a fascinating viral they are working on. As soon as it’s live, I’ll share it here.

We are obviously very pleased to be working with the Board – they are are an organisation we have longed to work with for quite some time. It’s always a pleasure to work with a team who are passionate about their cause.

e were  really lucky to work on the UX and web site design of the Judiciary of England and Wales web site recently, and here’s the result:

Judiciary of England and Wales web site design and UX

We recently launched a funky little microsite for the Lee Valley Park London 2012 Games White Water Canoe Centre.

The venue, due to open to the public in Spring 2011, will host the paddle sports events during the Olympic games. As well as canoeing and kayaking, visitors will be able to experience white water rafting in the steep obstacle filled course.

The microsite sits within Lee Valley Park’s main website, powered by our in-house Content Management System.

We recently launched a large content managed website for TES Aviation Group – a large international, but Wales based aircraft engine management company.

For Matt and myself, it was one of those dream jobs – a fascinating subject, a great group of people and a thoroughly professional and forward looking organisation. One of the highlights of our initial alignment workshops was the tour of their vast facility in Bridgend, south Wales and getting up close to some of the most powerful engines in the world. A schoolboy dream.

We worked through our UX (user experience) processes, spending considerable time talking with the various teams in the organisation, gathering valuable insight into a very complex industry and its own unique set of interactions between client and supplier.

These interviews, combined with alignment sessions with the sales and marketing director and his team, user journey design, process mapping, competitor review and content audit meant we could design the IA (Information Architecture) and wireframe prototype matching the user’s’ needs tightly to TES’s business objectives.

Then our creative and interactive teams were let loose on the look and feel, extending their existing brand into online. The design was then wrapped around our content management system enabling the TES teams to keep their content up to date from anywhere in the world at any time of day or night (these guys travel a lot!).

The site is attracting a lot of industry interest as the analytics are already proving.

We look forward to a long and interesting relationship with TES. It is worth a visit just to see the most amazing (and valuable) coffee table in Wales – made of scrapped titanium aircraft parts.

The brand new GoSafe website for the Wales Road Casualty Partnership launched this week.

The site uses S8080’s bilingual English/Welsh CMS and features an interactive and searchable road safety camera map, lots of help on what to do if you have been caught speeding and advice for driving safely for all types of road users.

GoSafe recently rebranded, so we were able to offer a very cost effective ‘refresh’ of their existing website, rather than a complete new build. Our creative and interactive teams also managed to re-skin the interactive driving game, ‘No Need for Speed’ – originally build by us several years ago.

The camera search application uses Google Maps to quickly show users the location of fixed, mobile and red light safety camera throughout Wales. Each precise location shows a host of data including the speed limit, collision and casualty figures.

The Dispelling the Myths section is a real eye opener – you can find out why cameras are placed at certain locations, and no, it’s not just to catch us out when we least expect it!

St David’s Day has taken over at www.wales.com. Fun, recipes and activities… you can even learn the Welsh national anthem phonetically.

Then test your Welshness with this multilingual interactive quiz.

The Audit Commission’s Oneplace website goes live today.

Oneplace, designed by S8080 for the Audit Commission, lets you compare the quality of life in your area with the rest of the country.

We have two three interesting openings at the moment.

Firstly, we need a project manager to cover maternity leave for 6 months (starting in December). Its a great role for someone who is meticulously organised!

Secondly, we are after a .NET web developer to join our technical team.

Lastly, we have an opening for a Front End Web Developer (XHTM / CSS guru who loves all things web and wants to build wonderful sites for some HUGE clients).

You can find full details on our jobs page. We look forward to hearing from you.