Cultural Accessibility

Accessibility isn’t just a standards exercise. With a potentially global audience, firms need to consider the extent to which their selection of language, colours, symbolic graphics and layout relies on the popular perceptions of a particular cultural group.
HSBC has a very entertaining TV ad in which an American businessman is taken out for a [...]

Assanka first for PHP certification

This month we are celebrating a clean sweep of certifications for our PHP development team, which means we have submitted to independent testing by Zend, the PHP company, and they have given us their seal of approval.
The traditional nature of the open source community is that there are always a lot of new entrants to [...]

Educational Giant

Furryelephant is the new, exciting way for students to learn about physics the right way. A former physics teacher invested a huge amount of time in creating the perfect digital learning resource, and then we created the perfect delivery system.

To get the obvious question out of the way first, ‘furryelephant’ was born out of [...]

Talk of the Town

Twickenham’s Town Centre Management Board commissioned Assanka to provide new content management facilities and an event and venue database for twickenhamtown.co.uk, coinciding with a new design. The new facilities make for a more engaging, more useful and more productive site.
The historic and world famous town of Twickenham owes much of its fame to rugby; [...]