Position: Full time
Salary: Massively dependent on portfolio and experience!
Location: Nottingham City Centre
Recruitment Agencies: NO, None, Zero, Lets say this again shall we - recruitment agencies go away!!!
Closing Date: When we have found the right person - so hurry up people! 

Even though everyone is shrinking at the moment - we are growing and so yet again are having to further expand our already exceptional team  - but literally only the best will do.

Alight is a multi disciplined Creative Design Agency that cover many things but specialise in Branding, Graphic Design, Web Design and Web Software Development.

First and foremost we are a design agency, so exceptional design is at the core of everything we deliver, but we are also a very technically capable bunch who build everything from scratch including our own CMS and E-commerce platforms - open source is for saps!

We have a gifted team of web developers to help breathe life into the amazing designs you will be creating, be clear we are not after a techy here - you are pure design through and through with a love of the web and digital. If you know some coding that's great too and we're sure that will come in useful.

We take only the best so you will need a portfolio full of stunning and beautiful work that should shows you have an extensive knowledge of User Experience (UX) and are a GUI god this all on top of just making things look amazing.

A good knowledge of SEO would be preferable, not delivering it, but knowing what works within sites to get the best results within the search, if not - this will be trained.

We do a lot of web but we also do a lot of branding and graphic design, so if your branding jedi and print master, then that will certainly add some gold stars.

We require minimum 3 years design agency experience working on large and small brands alike.

Ok I like it, what do I do...

If you don't like fun and can't crack a joke this ain't the place for you. However, if you have design flowing through you and want to step up, then either call us on 0845 009 8020 or email us at jobs@WeAreAlight.com

Whichever way you contact us be prepared to show us your portfolio site or at the very least send us a design portfolio PDF with links to work you have done.

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After many years of dominance Adobe Flash (Formally Macromedia flash) is being challenged in the RIA (Rich Internet Application) space by a real challenger.  Microsoft is currently working on the third release of SilverLight, a rich media technology that has a lot of parallels with macromedia flash, and it’s starting to really get noticed by developers.
Flash was initially created by Macromedia, and it first surfaced around April 1996 and has been pioneering the RIA space since. More recently Adobe acquired Macromedia and as a result helped further the technologies development. There were some significant changes to Adobe Flash as it hit versions 9 and 10 that are worth mentioning, with the introduction of action script 3, which was ECMA Script 4 compliant, which was a huge leap forward for flash developers in standardising development.  In addition to that in version 10 there is 3D support, and inverse Kinematics and object animation, which has begun bringing a whole new wave of creative 3D websites into the RIA space.

SilverLight version 1 was released in December 2006, and version 2 was released in the last quarter of 2008 and is still a very young, but has some nice features that make it a real competitor for Adobe Flash.  Firstly silverlight can be authored with visual studio 2008 and Blend. The files that make the RIA could be easily digested by a search engine. Search engines have always been a problem for Flash websites. There is no 3D support but Microsoft has hinted there may be support in the next version, along with some other features like dynamic bit rate changing for video streaming.  Oh and one final thing, Silverlight can be authored in most common asp.net languages, that means that most asp.net developers already know how to develop Silverlight, and don’t have to learn another scripting language, that puts SilverLight in a very strong position to compete.

So in summery it looks like Adobe flash has the number one spot, with more time in the RIA development space, and over a decade of experience in delivering rich multimedia content.  Anyone who has been on the internet for over 10 minutes will get a request to install Flash. Silverlight does not have that penetration, and there for will have to be around a while to get installed on any significant percentage of browsers. Installation might work better if it would be installed as a windows update rather than a browser add-on.  

As a developer at the Alight Web Design Agency my hope is that both these seemingly competing technologies continue to push the boundary of the internet experience further for the user, and more people see the need for RIA’s and a better and more enjoyable internet experience.