SEM Studio

Clients of SEM Solutions are bucking the trends of the current economic climate through the use of an innovative ecommerce solution - the SEM Store. The SEM Store has been developed by the team of software developers working from SEM’s office in Ashford and is currently being used by more than 20 traders to sell goods and services over the World Wide Web. The collective total of sales generated by clients using the SEM Store has recently passed the £1 million mark, a landmark that the SEM Team are extremely proud of.

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We’ve just finished working on the new Launchpad tour which has recently gone live. The team here at SEMStudio were responsible for all the graphic design and coding (HTML, CSS & AJAX). It was probably one of the most interesting jobs I’ve been involved with as we got to work closely with Mark Shuttleworth, the man behind Canonical, Thawte, Ubuntu and the first African in space. The meetings we had to attend with Mark at first were nerve wracking but it wasn’t long before we settled into job and started getting very positive feedback from him. This was no mean feat - consider this; how do you impress a man that has been to space? The first time I met him I found myself completely lost for words - he asked me a simple question about our programming skills and I couldn’t give him a straight answer. I suppose this is what happens when your client is a world famous entrepreneur and pioneering space tourist with their own page on Wikipedia!

Back to Launchpad. As many of you will already know it is a “hosting service for open source projects that’s big on collaboration.” We had to get pretty familiar with it in the course of this work and its fair to say that it does have some very impressive features and if I ever decide to release any software under an open source license I will definitely be taking advantage of the Launchpad service.