We first learnt about Conlan Schools of Abergele when their Managing Director Francesco Cendron offered a Programming Student Wu Jiang to reside with us for a three week period back in 2008.

Wu gained industrial and language experience with Pamaya Ltd who are one of North Wales’ leading Web and graphical design companies.

CTO Maja Williams said that it was a pleasure to have provided Wu with this opportunity and was impressed with his knowledge so early in his career. Wu showed signs of becoming an accomplished Programmer once his training was completed. Working on both in-house and commercial projects has given Wu the insight of commercial requirements in a fast moving sector.

More recently, Pamaya have provided placements for Vanessa Gorga from Bari in Southern Italy and also Silvio Boldrin from Milan.

Vanessa’s work has been widely varied and has focussed on Pamaya’s Client The Llandudno Victorian Extravaganza; meanwhile Silvio has been flexing his muscles in design concepts and deliverables for some of North Wale’s leading businesses.

Pamaya M.D. Paul Williams said “ Once again, it has been a real pleasure in hosting these young European professionals, it is fantastic to see the standard of work they are able to deliver and in many cases puts our UK students to shame because of their business awareness.

We look forward to a continued relationship with Conlan School in the not too distant future and we wish Vanessa and Silvio good luck with their studies; we are sure that the will make ‘model’ employees.

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 Introduction to HTML5

HTML5 is a lot of things-
Ongoing. This is a moving target. The spec can change underneath you. This can be fun, I swear. It also means there’s not always an answer. That, too, can be fun.
Occasionally controversial.
Full of cool stuff that’s got both browser and web developers excited
Something to pay attention to/ experiment with/ discuss and give feedback on (which is why we’re here today)

The talk is going to be about some new, semantic elements and attribues.. This is a subset of the spec that’s relatively stable and is usable right now. We’ll use a small bit of JavaScript or the Modernizr library to make styling these elements work in Internet Explorer.

(as usual things don’t really work in IE!)

<section>

The section element represents a generic document or application section. A section, in this context, is a thematic grouping of content, typically with a heading. Examples of sections would be chapters, the various tabbed pages in a tabbed dialog box, or the numbered sections of a thesis. A Web site’s home page could be split into sections for an introduction, news items, contact information.

<nav>

The nav element represents a section of a page that links to other pages or to parts within the page: a section with navigation links. Not all groups of links on a page need to be in a nav element – only sections that consist of major navigation blocks are appropriate for the nav element. In particular, it is common for footers to have a short list of links to various pages of a site, such as the terms of service, the home page, and a copyright page. The footer element alone is sufficient for such cases, without a nav element.

<article>

The article element represents a component of a page that consists of a self-contained composition in a document, page, application, or site and that is intended to be independently distributable or reusable, e.g. in syndication. This could be a forum post, a magazine or newspaper article, a Web log entry, a user-submitted comment, an interactive widget or gadget, or any other independent item of content.

 <aside>

The aside element represents a section of a page that consists of content that is tangentially related to the content around the aside element, and which could be considered separate from that content. Such sections are often represented as sidebars in printed typography. The element can be used for typographical effects like pull quotes or sidebars, for advertising, for groups of nav elements, and for other content that is considered separate from the main content of the page.

<hgroup>

The hgroup element represents the heading of a section. The element is used to group a set of h1-h6 elements when the heading has multiple levels, such as subheadings, alternative titles, or taglines.

<header>

The header element represents a group of introductory or navigational aids. A header element is intended to usually contain the section’s heading (an h1-h6 element or an hgroup element), but this is not required. The header element can also be used to wrap a section’s table of contents, a search form, or any relevant logos.

<footer>

The footer element represents a footer for its nearest ancestor sectioning content or sectioning root element. A footer typically contains information about its section such as who wrote it, links to related documents, copyright data, and the like. Footers don’t necessarily have to appear at the end of a section, though they usually do. When the footer element contains entire sections, they represent appendices, indexes, long colophons, verbose license agreements, and other such content.

<time>

The time element represents either a time on a 24 hour clock, or a precise date in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, optionally with a time and a time-zone offset.

<form> <input> attributes

Placeholder Text/Search Boxes
<input type=”search” placeholder=”Search Example.com” name=”s” id=”s” />
Email Addresses
<input type=”email” class=”text-input” name=”email” id=”email” value=”" size=”22″ tabindex=”2″ aria-required=’true’ />
Web Addresses
<input type=”url” class=”text-input” name=”url” id=”url” value=”" size=”22″ tabindex=”3″ />

And as usual, most of this would not be possible without the wonderful CSS3!

More Info

http://www.whatwg.org/
http://diveintohtml5.org/
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
and many more arising each day…

Redevelopment of the existing blogging website.

Brief

aberconwyconservatives.com had extended so much that they needed to create and own their own  website, as opposed to a website owned by a shared hosting company, where many other websites were held and none of the content was owned by the aberconwy conservatives. Pamaya was approached to provide an appraisal of aberconwyconservatives.com internet and marketing strategy.  Pamaya consulted, outlined a draft proposal along with a project brief for consideration by the management team.

It was evident from the start that aberconwyconservatives.com had a strong coherent brand but did not own the website nor the content hosted on it, which would serve several objectives.

1. To inform the website users what was happening in the Aberconwy Conservatives Party.
2. Allow users and all interested parties to interact with the website with the minimum of human action.
3. Promote the businesses effectively and to rank highly within the search engine indexes.

Solution

A fully interactive business portal website using a full range of programming techniques including flash, mapping, event management, newsletter subscription, dynamic site maps, content management, full user administration, automated payment processing, free text search, dynamically generated features and of course full search engine optimization.

Visit Website: aberconwyconservatives.com

If you’ve ever had your email service go down, you know how important uptime is. Businesses rely on email more than ever before, whether it’s a “contact us” link on your website, emailing client documents, or gathering your team for a meeting. In fact, over 80% of small business owners consider reliable email an important part of their success. However, maintaining safe, reliable email service is no easy task. Just ask the 25% of business owners who experienced major email outages last year.

The Satisfaction Guarantee 
Pamaya customers have the luxury of not worrying about uptime. We guarantee all systems related to delivering your email are operational-or your money back. We’re that confident because we have nearly a decade of experience successfully navigating mail to inboxes, safely, quickly, and efficiently.

How Do We Deliver?
That requires vigilance on multiple fronts to guarantee on demand email performance every time you hit “send”:

• Sending & Receiving-Across multiple data centers, we maintain over 1000 mail servers moving more than 50 million messages a day. Using simple, scalable inbound and outbound mail servers, traffic spikes are efficiently spread across data centers and new servers are deployed on demand. All of this happens without a blip in service on your end.
• Secure Mail Storage-If a catastrophe wipes out your systems, it won’t wipe out mail data. Two live copies are always available, plus a third offline backup. Messages are backed up daily and retrievable up to 14 days later. 
• System Metrics & Alerts-Real-time monitoring tells us immediately if there’s a broken link in our system before it affects your inbox. All day, every day from over 20 locations on five continents, we test mail delivery, server availability, and security. When a problem arises, dozens of experienced engineers handle the problem and plan to prevent reoccurrence.

Our People-Engineers and developers are the foundation of our guarantee. We’ve assembled functional teams dedicated to individual aspects of mail delivery. Within these teams, developers designing new features and fixes work alongside engineers responsible for troubleshooting and keeping the systems running. So if something goes wrong, the people who built the systems are working in sync with the people expected to fix it.

With our highly specialized, directed teams and processes focused on your email, you can go back to focusing on your business.

For more information or to sign up for services:
Call us at +333 6666 555
or contact us here

With Pamaya Ultimate Email Sync, users of can keep their calendar, contacts, and tasks synchronized across Microsoft Outlook, BlackBerry mobile devices, Windows Mobile devices, and Pamaya Ultimate Webmail. Sync is designed as a plug-in, using the open standard SyncML and can be installed directly on a user’s computer or mobile device. Users can customize the synchronization settings and also set up automatic synchronization.

Reduce frustration while increasing productivity by eliminating the need to enter the same data into several locations.

With Pamaya Ultimate Email Sync, you can:

• Synchronize calendars, contacts, and tasks between Outlook, BlackBerry mobile devices, Windows Mobile devices, and Rackspace Webmail
• Synchronize mail, calendars, and contacts to your iPhone
• View shared calendars in Outlook and Rackspace Webmail
• Schedule automatic synchronizations
• Manage and update data from any computer, BlackBerry mobile device, and/or Windows Mobile device
• Allow others to view your calendars online or offline
• Easily set up sync capability between multiple computers

For more information or to sign up for services:
Call us: +44 333 6666 555
or contact us here

POP3
Post Office Protocol (Version 3) is what most users need and use today.
POP3 is a client/server protocol in which email is received and held on a mail server. Periodically, you check for mail on that server and then download it to your email client. POP3 is the standard protocol built into practically every email client. This method is well-suited for users that don’t want to store email messages online.

IMAP4
Internet Message Access Protocol (Version 4) is another popular way to access email messages. With IMAP4, messages and folders are always stored on the mail server. When users access their email, they are working directly with these messages. This means that any updates made to the email, such as moving, flagging, or marking a message as unread, is stored on the server.

IMAP4 is a convenient option for users who need to access their email online from multiple clients at multiple computers or locations.

Our IMAP server supports IMAP IDLE, which provides real-time push support for IMAP applications, alerting you the second you have new mail… which makes it very powerful for users on the go.

SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is the standard protocol for sending email messages across the Internet. It is also commonly referred to as an outgoing mail server. Our SMTP servers are configured to require SMTP Authentication. The servers themselves perform two important functions.
First, they verify that anyone sending outgoing email through the SMTP server has the right to do so. Then secondly, they send the outgoing email. If undeliverable, the mail gets sent message back to the sender.

SSL and TLS Encryption
We provide SSL and TLS encryption for POP3, IMAP, SMTP, and the Webmail client. This encrypts your data so that others cannot view it. Our servers also support opportunistic TLS, which allows your incoming and outgoing email data to be encrypted as it travels through the internet. This is very important for passwords and confidential emails.

Supported RFCs
RFCs are standards for email communication between servers and email clients. These standards are approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and are known as RFCs. These standards cover SMTP, POP, and IMAP, among other Internet technologies.

For more information or to sign up for services:
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Keeping the spam menace out of your organization is not an easy or cheap proposition. The software licenses alone are costly. Add to that constant maintenance to ensure protection against emerging threats.

Looking for relief? Look to Pamaya Ultimate Email.
With Pamaya, you get exceptional support and affordable, feature-rich business email and the strongest threat detection structure in the industry. We combined the best of our threat scanning capabilities with industry leaders in spam and virus protection. Before a message enters your mailbox, it undergoes four independent, threat blocking scans:

• Threat Blocker #1: Our Gatekeeper Scan. Our team of email experts developed the Gatekeeper scan to evaluate a message’s compliance with rigorous, internationally recognized technical standards. Messages are also checked against aggregated blacklists of known spam offenders.
• Threat Blocker #2: Message Sniffer. Utilizing user feedback and enhanced pattern matching, Message Sniffer seamlessly annihilates over 98% of spam in real time.
• Threat Blocker #3: Cloudmark and CommTouch. Advanced Message Fingerprinting from Cloudmark is strong enough to annihilate spam and accurately identify virus attacks. Plus, we added CommTouch’s thorough spam filters, featuring Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD) technology.
• Threat Blocker #4: Clam AV. Incorporating a three-layer virus scan on all incoming messages, Clam AV targets deceptive measures senders use to mask viruses, compares the message against known virus definitions, and evaluates attachments for possible viruses.

Maintaining this comprehensive level of threat protection could cost you thousands of dollars a month to maintain. As a Pamaya customer, these protections are free with every mailbox you add.

For more information or to sign up:
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or contact us here

10GB Mailboxes
Our goal is to take storage out of the equation. That’s why we offer users huge, 10 GB mailboxes. No longer will users have to worry about cleaning out and archiving their mailboxes to prevent running out of storage space. With 10GB of data storage space, your users can keep all of their emails in their account without deleting them. This helps users to create an effective archive of work activity. It also provides an excellent way to manage and retrieve information about past projects, decisions, and emailed conversations.

50MB Attachments
We want to be sure that your users aren’t limited by file size limitations when they’re sending an attachment. That’s why we are one of the leaders in the industry that supports up to 50 MB attachments on incoming or outgoing email. This helps to ensure that users can send and receive important attachments without concern for file size limitations.

With a 50MB attachment limit, your users could send or receive: 

• A 1,000 page Microsoft Word document *
• 200 slides in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation *
• 500 JPEG images *
• A 500 page Adobe PDF file *

* Illustrative estimate-Actual numbers depend on the size of a given file(s).

For more information or to sign up:
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or contact us here