Ok so who do we need?

Firstly and mainly we are looking for someone who can write a weekly news segment for us. This will follow the same sort of posts that the Weekly Tech Bite (see an example here) did. It’s simply a round up of the main tech news that has happened that week along with a round up of the Posts that have appeared on Cloud Bite! Also if the person wishes they will be able to write news of major events when they happen. So if Apple have announced a brand new product, or something else big has hit the tech world then it would be great to write that the day it happens and sum it up in the Weekly Tech Bite.

What we don’t want though is someone who heads over to them other tech news blogs and simple does a copy and paste. The idea of Cloud Bite was to give you, our readers information in a more personal way so we want someone who can write with their personality injected into it!

So, What we need from You…

• We want a writer who can give up a couple of hours of their time (or however long it takes to write the Tech Bite) each week.
• We want a writer with a personality not a robot who just churns out other peoples news!
• We need your dedication, if you think you can spare time but aren’t sure or will have to quit in a few weeks/months time then this is not really what I’m looking for.
• We need someone who has the passion like we do to make Cloud Bite Bigger and better. We have a great foundation now it’s time to build on it!

What you will get from us…

• We will support you as much as possible as you write for us.
• We are happy to take a look at your ideas for the future.
• We will give you a trial if your not too sure it will suit you.
• A platform to share your writing skills and your passion for technology!

What next…

Firstly please don’t apply if you are expecting to get any sort of payment. Cloud Bite doesn’t make much money at all, and anything it does make gets put straight back into the site and usually the running costs.

If your still interested though that’s great, drop me an email to info @ cloudbite.co.uk (remove spaces) and we can take it from there.

If you have your own blog or have written tech posts before be sure to mention them! If your new to all this don’t worry we all have to start somewhere.

There isn’t a closing date for applications until I update this post but I will give it a little time to give everyone a chance and if you don’t wish to do the above but would like to help another way be sure to get in touch!

New Updates to Cloud Bite

Over the past couple of weeks there has been some great posts on Cloud Bite with unboxings and reviews of several products. When writing these reviews and inserting images, video etc for them I have noticed a few issues with Cloud Bite Website which have either made it harder and slower for me to add updates or are just general styling that I thought could do with been changed in order to improve your experience as well as my own. I thought I’d write this update to outline some of the changes that will effect you as a viewer of the website, however there is also a lot of changes made underneath! Please just bear in mind not all changes are complete at this time and small tweaks will no doubt be made over the next few days! In fact just writing this now I have just made a “tweak” to the Style Sheet of the website.

What’s Changed?

• Sharing - We all like to share right? Well I suppose it all depends on what is being shared. I mean you wouldn’t really want to share your last Cadbury Button would you? Arhh Cadbury Buttons mmmm. Blog posts though, well good blog posts like mine , should be shared with your friends and beyond!  Cloud Bite fully integrated the Tweetmeme button right from day one but other social networking sites like Facebook were overlooked, that is partially due to the fact I’m not a fan of facebook, however there are gazillions of people on FaceBook like there are on Twitter and other Social Media Sites. Now as the aforementioned social networking sites are the biggest, or appear to be, they have their own dedicated buttons right up the top of the post. However at the bottom of each post is also a ShareThis button which you can click and the post link gets repeated across all your social sites.

Facebook and Tweetmeme Sharing

ShareThis Button

• Font – You may have notice the fonts have changed a little, or you may have only noticed when reading this. The reason the font has changed is I noticed that this font looks clearer especially on mobile devices like the iPad and iPhone. Other than that theres no other reason!

• Width - Another small change to the site is the width of the main post area. The extra width even though a small increase aids the layout of a blog post and the ability to have larger images without effecting the sites design.

• Article Information - At the bottom of each post you will now see the article information box. This contains the tags, category, last updated information and the ShareThis button! You can check it out below.

Article Information

• Lightbox – The site now uses light box features to display images it just makes it that bit easier for you! At the moment not all of the images on the site have been fully adapted to correctly work with this feature but they soon will be.

Click to try the Lightbox feature.

• Featured Posts - The Featured Posts at the top of the main page has been updated. This is more of a Style change than a features change.

Cloud Bite New Featured Posts

Ok so thats a round up of most of the changes that are obvious. There will be more updates soon but these will be gradually integrated into the website. If you spot any issues make sure you comment below also make sure comment if you like the changes of course!