It took quite a bit longer than we first imagined, but our new Matmi website was finally launched this week. After 2 and a half months of discussions, designing, coding and banging our heads against a brick wall, we said a tearful farewell to our beloved Matmi monkeys and replaced the old run-down, out of date site with an all singing, all dancing cutting edge web experience.
We’re really proud of the new design. Not only is it colourful and very reflective in what Matmi can do these days, but it has a very strong content management system which makes it so much easier to update the site in the future. All you technical geeks out there may like to know a little more about the web structure: an OOP PHP-based site, abiding to the laws of w3C validation (XHTML strict in most cases), with a dynamic Flash AS3 banner that streams FLV videos. And for the non-technical geeks, well…its very colourful and fun to look at.
My favourite feature is the dynamic banner (which we call the Matmi Lid). For those of you who haven’t yet played around with it, try clicking on the lever to the left hand side. There’s a few little extras in there. Something you may not have noticed are the random heads that can be found just above the Matmi Lid (pull the lever down to reveal a different head each time). You may ask “why?”, you may think “eh?”…well basically we wanted to put something in the site that has inspired us. Each “head” you see represents a character from a TV show or a film. We think it’ll give you more of an understanding of how Matmi think and what we like.
You will no doubt notice the Space Invaders game in the lid (pull the lever up to reveal it). Over the coming months more classic games will randomly appear in there, just to keep you entertained. We love retro games!
The snapshot section is pretty neat too. It will keep you up-to-date with some of the work we are currently doing. Also its a nice way to show you some of the work that is never officially used in our projects. We have a whole server full of graphics and animations that we did just for fun and it’s nice to finally be able to show you some of them.
The blog has also had a make-over to match the new site. We hope you find it a bit more insteresting and we promise we will try hard to keep the news up-to-date.
Keep an eye on our new friends section. this is still in progress. It’s something a little bit different but we think you’ll like it.
We’ve got plenty more games and projects on the way so keep an eye out for all the latest and greatest at Matmi. And if you get a spare second check out our portfolio and have a read through the rest of our new site. As always we’d love to hear your feedback. You can either comment in this blog, send us an email or fill out our online form at www.matmi.com/contact.php
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