On Sunday 15th February, NSDesign celebrated 10 years in business – a very proud achievement and the perfect excuse to have a party – with a difference!

Teaming up with the Scottish Rocks Basketball team, we invited over 100 customers to the game against Cheshire Jets, enjoyed a load of on-court shenanigans, before opening up the bar with free food and drink to all..  In summary – a seriously good night.

We started the night (before the game) with our 5 competition finalists taking the court to attempt a free throw.  From the five, one made it, so congrats to Robert Scott who won an iPod:

We then picked Martyn Robertson at random, who won the chance to shoot for a brand new car…  Something we’d been promoting for the past few months, and given us a lot of publicity…  So did he make it?..  Check out this Youtube video for a full summary of all the shots!!

The Game itself wasn’t the best, and the Rocks ended up losing, but as with any Basketball game at Kelvin Hall, the excitement, cheerleaders, and genral fun and games kept everyone enjoyed until it was time to hit the bar…

After the game it was up to the “Kelvin Suite” (a very posh name for the wee bar up the stairs from the court), and everyone enjoyed some free food, drink, and birthday cake (both of them!)…  It was also our opportunity to say a few thanks for clients, like Simon Howarth – our very first customer back in Feb 99, to staff, and to everybody connected to NSDesign over the 10 years…  You can view my “Thank You” speech on You Tube.

All in all… a seriously good night, and one that marks a very special decade of NSDesign.  Here’s to the next 10!!

Check out more of the party photos at Facebook

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Ok – so we’re not actually for sale (before we get clients phoning in a panic), unless of course Microsoft wants to come in and offer $40 billion to aquire a thriving web design and consultancy company from Glasgow – the value they placed on Yahoo just last week, when they attempted to buy the web search company.

Their somewhat random offer was actually 62% above the “market value” of Yahoo, based on their share price at the time, a valuation most traditional businesses in the past would have jumped at.  But just how do you value a “Web Company”…  It’s certainly not an easy task, and (as MS have shown) not just down to the current stock market trends.

 So… will we see a MSNahoo?  Or will (as many as speculating) Google suddenly appear as a rival bidder.  And what will it all mean for us web users?  Less choice?  A better service?  Only time will tell…

Ps – I was only kidding about selling NSDesign for $40 billion…  I’d take less..

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Well… here it is – the traditional “hello world” post, to introduce the new blog from the NSDesign team.

Apologies in advance for the lack of effort in customising the wordpress theme, but we wanted to get this up and running before Christmas, and I promise to spend a little more time on it in January.

So why a blog?..  Well, we wanted an informal space where the team could post “non official” news, thoughts and random stuff.  Far too often we’ve had something of interest to say, but nowhere to say it – hence the birth of this blog.  If you’re a customer of NSDesign then be aware that existing support channels will not change..  you’ll still use the online helpdesk etc when you need support – this blog is not to supplement support – It’s just a chance for us to ramble on various issues (some work related, some not), and for you to get inside the heads of some of the staff.  We’re all really nice people (trust me), and I hope you get to know us all that little bit better….

 Ok…  thats enough for the first post.

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