August 2004
The Office Group Party
This was a long overdue get together where the Office Group put on a fantastic bash for everyone in the building. Needless to say we did manage to get through all the champagne and a big thanks to Corina, Charlie and Olly for a great night out.
July 2004
Welcome to the team - Blanche Carbello
Blanche has joined us as a placement from DCT. She is primarily helping with SEO and link building and we hope she has a great time with us.
May 2004
Welcome to the team - Paul Rudman
Paul has joined us to help support the ever growing SEO team and will primarily be working with Joaquim in developing our other marketing interests
May 2004
New Service - Virus scanning and SPAM filtering
Due to the increased SPAM problems we have upgraded our service to help compabt this problem - please call for details.
April 2004
Welcome to the team - Peter Edwards
Peter has joined us and will be working 2 days a week to support our many hosting servers and technical programming issues and brings a vast amount of knowledge and experience with large web based applications.
April Fools Day 2004
Further expansion
Blue chilli has reached the point where it needs a new office to accomodate 8 people and so we have moved into an office on City Road, Islington.
Many thanks to Rory from Embado for all his help in the past.
February 2004
Welcome to the team - Nick Houghton
Nick will be providing sales contacts for our marketing team and has an extensive knowledge of dealing with large multi-national companies.
Blue Chilli Xmas party - 20th Dec 2003
I don't think we should say any more except thank you to Cindy for acquiring a long overdue Xmas tree - it was an impressive feat.
November 2003
Upgrade to Hosting Service - Windows 2003
We have now upgraded our hosting packages to give you the latest software developments to give you an extremely reliable and fast hosting service
October 2003
Welcome to the team - Robbie Lockie
Robbie has previously worked for a large SEO company and will now form an integral part of our newly developed SEO team. Robbie will also be designing web sites and producing graphics and will bring a new edge into Blue Chilli's design capabilities.
September 2003
We lose Mark to the Aussies
Mark has decided that it's time to go home and is returning to Oz. We wish him all the best and will miss him deeply.
August 2003
Welcome to the team - Cindy Sasha
Cindy has been freelancing for Blue Chilli for some months now helping keep the accounts up to date. Cindy has now been taken on full time as the office managed and accounts administrator.
July 2003
Welcome to the team - Joaquim Periera
Jo has joined Blue Chilli and will be working on developing our many marketing ideas to help Blue Chilli diversify into other markets.
May 2003
Business Startup Exhibition
For the second time, we're exhibiting at the annual Business
Startup Exhibition (www.bstartup.com).
This year it's on the 10-11 May 2003 and is being held
at the NEC, Birmingham. Come and see us!
December 2002
Happy New Year!
It's the end of a successful year for Blue Chilli
and we wish all out friends and customers the very best
for 2003!
October 2002
Business Startup Exhibition
We exhibited successfully at the Business Startup
Exhibition at London's Excel Centre on 19-20 October 2002
(www.bstartup.com).
The exhibition was well attended and our stand attracted
a lot of interest. Blue Chilli are pleased to announce
that we have been chosen to develop the new Business Startup
2003 web site.
September 2002
Moved Offices
We've moved to new roomier premises in Upper Street,
Islington and we now have the additional services of a
graphic designer and a web application programmer.
June 2002
Yet Another New Staff Member
Lewis Evans (yet another straight guy) joins us for
web design work while he completes a college course. While
we were a bit nervous of him at first, we've found his peculiar
sexual preference to be no hindrance to his creativity.
May 2002
Gay Business Association
We exhibited at the popular Gay Business Association
Expo for the 2nd year running. Our Marketing Manager, Ross
Jackson, was also elected Chair of the Association at their
AGM. (
http://www.gba.org.uk)
February 2002
Another Temporary Staff Member
Daniel, a Norwegian born graphics student, joined us
for a month to sharpen his web design skills (and drink
his first Tequila!).
January 2002
New Staff Member
Another year, another new member of staff. Blue Chilli's
expansion goes from strength to strength, with the arrival
of Dean Steiner as design and marketing assistant. His input
will be invaluable in allowing Blue Chilli to further develop
the range of services it currently offers, (See
services
for more details).
December 2001
Christmas time...
Once again, Blue Chilli were inundated with Christmas cards
from customers, friends and well-wishers. We'd like to express
our heartfelt thanks to all those who took the trouble to
send us their best wishes for the year ahead. We can't wait!
November 2001
Marketing - Intergration
Blue Chilli launches the stand-alone web site for the Internet
Marketing side of its business -
www.intergration.co.uk
with a party for staff and sub-contractors at a local Italian
restaurant. A thouroughly enjoyable time was had by all!
And the web site has attracted much attention and interest
from those who wish to take advantage of the marketing potential
of the internet.
October 2001
New Staff Member
Lorenzo di Candia joined us for a temporary position as
design assistant. The staff and customers of Blue Chilli
found Lorenzo to be creative, committed, very personable
and hugely entertaining (for a straight bloke). When he
returned to Italy just before Christmas (he found it too
cold in England!), we all wished him well and are looking
forward to keeping in contact with him in the future.
October 2001
New Service -
PERSONAL CONTROL PANELS
PCP's give you full control over your web site for administration
of email accounts, FTP access and more.
VIRUS
ALERT
We now have a fully updated section which lists all the
current Virus Alerts and the severity they can incur.
August 2001 -
WE MOVED
New premises
Due to continued expansion, we’ve recently moved to new
offices in the City. Our new location is 56 Old Street between
Old Street and Farringdon tube stations. And as we’re above
a photo processing shop, we’ll never again be stuck for
somewhere to get an enlargement in the dark room…
A sporting gesture
In the guise of our parent company, blue-chilli.net,
we were immensely proud to be the official sponsors for
the London Lionesses women’s football team at the recent
Gay World Cup held in London. The girls did us all proud
by coming fourth in the tournament. (More details on their
own web site –
www.stonewallphoenix.org.uk)
- ExhibitABC
- new exhibition display service
- Software Training
- one-to-one training for a variety of popular software
- Type Setting and Graphics
- 10 years experience in DTP with Quark Express, Illustrator
and Photoshop
June 2001
Live Statistics
Our new Live Statistics package gives you valuable information
about who is visiting your site, where they come from, how
long they are there, what pages they are visiting, and many
other useful statistics.
April 2001
Marketing Your Business Online
Internet Marketing Consultant, Ross Jackson, joined us.
His expertise in promoting web sites on and off line is
the envy of the profession; and now we can offer you the
benefit of those skills. Click on "
marketing"
above for more info.
Jan 2001
Windows 2000 servers upgrade
Blue Chilli has just upgraded our web hosting facilities
to the faster and more reliable Windows 2000 standard. With
a 99.99% up-time our service is comparable to many of the
top hosting companies. Click on the web hosting link to
find out more.
May 2000
Blue Chilli, a gay-owned and operated web design and internet
marketing company, is born - with a gay-branded site, Pink
Chilli, for its many gay customers.
