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Last week saw the second annual Digital Dragons competition come to a head at Glasgow City Chambers with teams of four/five pupils from Lourdes, Govan High School, Lochend Community High School, Springburn Academy, Bannerman High School and St Andrews RC Secondary presenting a 15 minute pitch to a panel of experts.

To be honest after last year’s final, I didn’t think the quality of the presentations could be topped, but guess what, the teams’ performance was outstanding.

Following our last blog update, John Campbell (Spider MD) has finally managed to track down and meet our manager of the month winners for February and March…all except one.

Brian Nicolson (top left) picked up the award on behalf of his son, Gordon Nicolson (Saint John's Stones), who won the month of February with a total of 242 pts…hopefully his Dad has handed over the champers and not kept it for himself!

We all know that the percentage of users accessing the internet via mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets seems to be increasing every day.

Bearing this in mind it becomes more important than ever that our websites are truly optimised for performance in order to give our users the best experience possible.

The website that a user views on their mobile device will be one of a three things:

Unless you’ve been marooned on a desert island for the last couple of years you’ve no doubt heard of the current big trend in web design – namely responsive web design.

For our purposes let’s assume you have been living on coconuts for a while, so just what is this responsive web design stuff all about?

The goal of responsive web design is to create a website which provides an optimal user experience no matter which device the website is being viewed on.

Now in its second year Digital Dragons is inspired by a desire to offer children from less privileged backgrounds the opportunity to grow self confidence, improve their teamwork capabilities, social skills and getting insight into working life in a leading digital agency, and to instil in them a belief that it doesn’t matter where you come from, success can be yours with hard work, self belief, support and a bit of luck.