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We're hiring: Are you a web developer with great WP experience?
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Deadline Friday May 29
We are looking for a web developer to join our team and help us capitalise on opportunities to build a stronger, more popular and richer service.
You should be someone who eats, sleeps, drinks and dreams their code and who wants to use their skills to help people lead more sustainable lives. You will need hands-on coding experience with XHTML, CSS, JS, PHP and MySQL.
You will need to have a black belt in WordPress and have worked on sites that integrate advertising. Knowledge of SEO, OpenX and e-commerce tools would be an advantage.
You should have a pragmatic approach to software development. You should have an eye for clean, usable, standards-compliant, cross-browser web design. Experience in creating graphics for the web is an advantage.
Last but not least, you should have a strong connection with the ethos behind walkit.com.
Location
walkit.com is based in London, Birmingham and Norfolk. You can work remotely but should be able to come to London or Birmingham weekly.
Terms
Initial 6 month contract, either part time or full time according to candidate's abilities.
Salary
To be discussed with candidates based on their experience.
Deadline
Friday May 29. Please send covering email to jobs@walkit.com with:
- your CV
- why you'd like to work for walkit.com
- how your skills could be used to develop the service
- links to examples of your work that you think are relevant to this role
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Our annual user survey: What do you really think about walkit.com?
A while ago nationalrail.co.uk had the habit of doing this intensely annoying thing where, after spending a lot of time working out your ideal journey, you'd then click the 'buy tickets' button and be 'cast off' to one of the rail operator's sites to complete the purchase….to find your carefully chosen journey details had vanished when being transferred from one to the other.
It was maddening, a waste of my time, bad for the train sector, bad for business.
And it would happen time and time again. But rather than write in to nationalrail.co.uk alerting them to this I'd just quietly (or loudly) curse their stupidity.
So welcome to our annual user survey!
If you're having a similar experience with walkit.com, we'd really like to know about it.
We do have a long list of improvements, but it's always helpful to know which our users think we should prioritise. Lots of you do already write in with ideas, complaints and praise – apologies if we haven't got back to you yet. It's all logged and helps influence future developments.
So please spare us no more than 10 minutes to complete the survey.
Many thanks.
Walk Sheffield Festival, May 30 - 7 June
If you're a Sheffield resident, worker or visitor, put a note in your diary for the Walk Sheffield festival from May 30 to June 7.
There are numerous organised walks around the city that you can join in for free.
Just turn up on the day and an experienced walk leader will take everyone on a new and exciting route, providing fascinating local information along the way.
The walks are different lengths and range from easy strolls to more challenging hikes, and many have themes such as history and nature.
Download a PDF leaflet to find out more.
And while we're talking about Sheffield, you may have noticed we're on the buses!
Campaign to reinvent the shopping trolley
Ever used a wheelie shopping bag?
photo: teaeff
Ever used a wheelie suitcase?
Why has it become socially acceptable for blokes (particularly Masters of the Universe businessmen) to use wheelie suitcases, but said blokes (and most women under a certain age) would not be seen dead walking their groceries home in a wheelie shopping bag?
Weird, isn't it?
We need a campaign to reinvent the shopping trolley wheelie bag thingy (in fact we could start with a new name – any ideas?).
“Think you can't walk home because you've got too much shopping to carry? Think again! With the new ShoppoLift you'll glide home in no time at all.”
So who could be the face of the campaign? Wayne Rooney? OK, maybe not. Alan Sugar? We're struggling. Alan Titchmarsh?
Come on all you PR people out there. We know you use walkit.com. Are you up for the challenge?
