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What’s Happening to Cloud Bite?

Mark Haynes — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:06:13 +0000

Hello everyone, it’s very rare I, the sole writer of Cloud Bite talk to you so informally but if your here, reading this, then I class you one of the sites friends and therefore my friend! Ok so as you will see its been nearly 2 months since anything appeared on Cloud Bite. The reason for this is because I have been really busy setting up a web design business as part of my University placement. I was hoping by the beginning of August everything would be sorted but when does anything ever go smoothly? Well its starting, for now, to settle down a little and I should be back writing posts, reviews, you know, the usual Cloud Bite quality content, sometime next week.

I have reviews of products coming up including the Harmony Remote Control from Logitech (thanks guys for hanging on), some app reviews I think you will like, a new keyboard/mouse desktop suite, a laptop (or 2) and a couple of other things. I have allotted time during my business hours that should allow me to do a post a day also! Also in the future im hoping to change Cloud Bite a little. I still love how Cloud Bite looks but its falling behind a little in terms of technologies and design so needs a, “Spring Clean” we will call it (and possibly a face-lift) but at the moment that’s in the future.

So yeh, I just wanted to update you with my status and the blogs status. Cloud Bite means a lot to me and I hope you like it to so it’s coming back just think of it as a long holiday!

Cheers guys, and remember you can get in touch with me at all times (apart from when im asleep) just hit contact us up there or email me at mark(at)markhaynes.me!

Cloud Bite’s 1st Birthday (Giveaway)

Mark Haynes — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:14:29 +0000

Today is Cloud Bite’s very first birthday. 1 year ago today the first Blog post was written introducing Cloud Bite to the world. It has been a journey that has had it’s ups and downs but overall has been great. With the support from some great people (see the Links to the Cloud Page) Cloud Bite has gone from strength to strength and we couldn’t of done it without you so thanks so much! Over the past year we feel Cloud Bite has evolved from a little amateur blog to a more professional brand. Not only has the design of the site dramatically changed from the original but the YouTube channel has grown into a more informative and professional feel. (We hope you think so too!)As we are so grateful for your support we wanted to give something back. Therefore we had a look at the stats and one of our most popular videos and blog posts was the Plantronics Gamecom Headset one. Now I wish we could give everyone a set of these but budgets are tight so 1 of you has the chance to win a brand new pair. For more information check out the Birthday video below!

Cloud Bite Cake

For anyone who wants to see the Cloud Bite Cake:

Thanks so much for your support and lets hope we can do this again next year only bigger and better!

Updates: Links to the Cloud and Badges

Mark Haynes — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:30:45 +0000

Cloud Bite is exactly that, a bite of the cloud. The cloud is huge though and so we felt it was necessary to link to some other great parts of the Cloud to help you find them! Therefore we have added the new “Links to the Cloud” page. It features the great companies that we have worked with and some of our favourite sites/blogs in the Cloud. The “Cloud Badge” as we call them are designed completely by us and are only available to those who we feel deserve them or have worked directly with Cloud Bite!

Get your own Cloud Badge

You should think of the “Cloud Badge” as a achievement, which you could feature anywhere, just be sure to mention it too us so we can tweet it out! Also only Cloud Badge holders get exclusive membership to Cloud Bite! We are happy to create a Cloud Badge for anyone just be sure to work with us! Also you can get a badge for your company if you sponsor us! It will be featured on the homepage too, get in touch at info@cloudbite.co.uk for more details!

So go on then, check out who so far has managed to achieve a Cloud Badge by visiting our Links to the Cloud.

If you think your site deserves a Cloud Badge or you wish to sponsor us then please feel free to contact us at info@cloudbite.co.uk

Updates to Cloud Bite

Mark Haynes — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:47:53 +0000

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!

Cloud Bite’s First Merchandise

Mark Haynes — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:50:29 +0000

Today I arrived home to find a parcel from PhotoBox waiting for me. I would of done an unboxing but felt it was a rather boring one to do for the viewer so just ripped open the Packet. Inside I found 3 Cloud Bite Keyrings that I had ordered only 2 days ago.

Cloud Bite Key Ring

Why am I blogging about a keyring I hear you ask?

Well it’s a good excuse to tell you about the great service from Photobox.co.uk. I have used this company for the past few years and never had a problem with them. By goods have always arrived on time and are great quality. Photobox let you upload your photographs and have them printed on, Paper, key rings, cusions, T-Shirts, albums, Paper weights and you can even make a Cadbury Chocolate Eye Brows mug.. Don’t ask just check it out!

The prices are really good too and new customers get 40 free 6×4 prints for just signing up all you need to do is pay the P&P.

Cloud Bite, Mouse Mat, Stickers and Keyrings!

With the age of digital cameras we very rarely print our images any more and it’s a shame really. You buy that great camera but never get prints made and can only see them on the computer… how fun! So go give PhotoBox a try, and no I have nothing to do with them and aren’t getting commission… I wish I was though!

UPDATE: As a quick update the Mouse Mat and Stickers have now come too!

Oh 1 last thing, if you really love Cloud Bite, who doesn’t, feel free to order your own version of the Key Ring / Mouse Mat or stickers just download this photo: Cloud Bite Photo and upload it to PhotoBox!