Due to recent large contract wins and an ever expanding customer base, we're looking to hire an experienced, top class Web Developer. You'll get to work in a friendly, laidback, vibrant but most of all hard-working office, and have an opportunity to help drive our company forward.

Based in Oldham, Manchester (right off the M60), we're a young firm with lots and lots of bright ideas. We're a bunch of geeks who love making the internet work, and we want the right person to join our team.

We're ideally looking for someone with 5-10 years of commercial web development experience that matches the following criteria to an expert standard. Your code needs to be tidy, concise and built with commonly accepted programming practices in mind.

• ASP.Net & classic ASP. PHP knowledge a bonus, but not essential.
• VBScript & Javascript
• SQL Server & mySQL
• HTML & CSS
• AJAX & knowledge of common Web 2.0 practices
• JQuery / Prototype / Mootools etc.
• All of the above requirements are essential, but good knowledge of related technologies will give you an edge. Appreciation of aesthetic website design helpful.

You'll be working on ecommerce website projects, and expected to manage all of the development after receiving fresh designs from our team. We're looking for someone who stands out from the crowd, someone who strives to be the best, and most of all someone that lives and breathes their role.

Send us your CV's to info@webvitality.co.uk. We want the best, and will pay very well for the right person.

We are proud to announce that Bath Shop 321, a brand new internet bathroom company, have chosen Web Vitality to design and develop their new website. Alongside the site, we will also be managing their entire SEO and Internet Marketing campaigns, as well as producing all of their offline literature.

Selling cheap bathrooms, bathroom suites, toilets, taps and showers - Bath Shop 321 will be offering some of the cheapest bathroom furniture around, with some mighty discounts available on the best quality products.

We will be launching their new website very soon at http://www.bathshop321.com. Keep checking the site - you won't want to miss on their amazing deals!

Evening all! I’ve just returned from four days in London, where I experienced the delights of the underground, the lack of Travelodge Wi-Fi (or rather the lack of free Wi-Fi), and the rigours of competing in a Triathlon.

I travelled down on a Virgin train which was pleasant enough, and due to the T-Mobile broadband I was able to spend most of my time on the internet, checking a few emails and putting together a couple of new website quotes. The speed wasn’t amazingly fast, but fine for general browsing and email, however the reception wasn’t constant – it cut out a few times when the train passed underneath a bridge (which I suppose is to be expected, however when it comes to using the internet, I want blazing speeds ALL of the time! - I’m very picky that way).

On arrival in London, we checked into a Travelodge Hotel which was a right dodgy old place. The hotel staff weren’t very good nor able to speak much English, the corridors smelled musty and stale, and the rooms were basic, but then again we did pay rock bottom prices to stay in central London.

Firing up my laptop I checked for Wi-Fi networks, and found the hotel ones, however the prices were extortionate! £5 minimum for an hour, or £20 for a few days access. Looking back now I suppose some may find that acceptable, but I doubt the hotels make much profit from it, so in my opinion I think they should make it free. Is it too much to expect free Wi-Fi in today’s hotels?

The next couple of days were spent doing the typical London thing – Changing of the Guard, Tower of London, The London Eye etc, before we got down to the whole point of the trip, my participation in the Mazda London Triathlon on Saturday morning.

Now before you start looking all shocked and think I’m some sort of super human ironman competitor I’ll stop you there. I entered the Super Sprint, which is basically a beginners Triathlon. Still swim, cycle and run, but much shorter distances. This was my second of such events, and I finished 45th out of 177 which isn’t too bad, but I was hoping to do better. I didn’t help matters by knocking my own goggles off right at the start of the swim and then proceeding to swallow a huge gulp of the docklands water. Nice.

Should be doing the same event next year, and after a few quick calculations and “guesstimates”, I reckon I can push for top ten. My first transition from swim to bike was terrible, however I somehow put in the 17th fastest run out of everyone despite having sprained my ankle 10 days before.

Onto Sunday night then, and our last meal before coming home on the Monday - we stumbled across a fine Persian/Iranian restaurant in Leicester Square called Apogee. Anyone who’s ever been out in Rusholme, Manchester might have heard of the legendary Rusholme Chippy Kobeda, which to those unbeknown is a fantastic lamb kebab, and to my huge surprise it was on the menu in Apogee!!! Amazing. And yes I did get one.

Seriously, if you’ve never tried one, go order yourself a Double Kobeda from Rusholme Chippy if you’re in the vicinity.

So it’s now Monday, and we get back on the train to come home to lovely Manchester. Again I spend the next 2 hours back on the laptop, checking more emails, triathlon results and browsing a few photos on Facebook to see if I could spot myself, which I couldn’t, however my Dad sneaked himself onto some! (Big up here for Dad, he did the Triathlon with me at the grand old age of 61!) And no he didn’t beat me before you ask :)

The Wi-Fi seemed a bit inconsistent on the way back, and I wasn’t that impressed, so there’s plenty of room for improvement here Virgin. Is 50Mb too much to ask? Go on Branson, you can do anything!