Black Lab Software

11/03/2022

Happy Friday Everyone.

13/01/2022

From way longer ago than i'd care to admit, from my first year in Uni i think.

Built in Microsoft FrontPage (anyone else remember that?) and The logo and graphics were done in photoshop CS1 if i remember rightly!

26/09/2021

Finallly remembered to slap my Ecologi badge on the website. We’re climate positive!

https://blacklabsoftware.co.uk/

17/09/2021

15/09/2021

Morning all!

I've given my website a wee refresh to better reflect what i do and can provide for businesses.

One single page to keep things simple.

Let me know if you like it.

Dan.

Web and Bespoke Business Software development, backed by industry experience, and supported with honest and friendly advice.

26/08/2021

Happy to the dog that puts the black lab in Black Lab Software. Office buddy, sofa snuggle pal and constant food watcher.

03/08/2020

Hey Everyone.

Contact tracing is a hot topic right now - with some businesses apparently handing around clipboards with pen+paper where guests can read other guests' contact details! 😮 - not to mention how unhygienic using the same pen for everyone is!

I'm looking for businesses of all types - both local and national to help test out our contact tracing web app - "VisitorTrace" - for FREE and get some feedback and raise its profile.

We have a focus on privacy, and we think the price is a steal at £80 a year anyway - but you could get a free account to take it for a test run.

If your business could use a better way of collecting contact tracing details, get in touch, or tell your friends or favourite businesses to get in touch.

You can see the features it offers on our homepage here:
https://visitortrace.app

Share & Boost this post if you'd like to help - nobody needs to have their phone number and details swiped from a shoddy clipboard ever again.

VisitorTrace allows you to check-in visitors and guests to your business premises quickly and hygienically on their own smartphones using QR codes.

13/07/2020

Hi all, hope you're all well.
I've been working on a contract tracing application for small to medium-sized businesses - to make it easier to collect contract tracing info from people, store it securely, and get rid of it after 21 days.

Well... it's ready!
https://visitortrace.app/

Some features:

- A ready-made downloadable privacy notice that you can print and display on your premises to comply with GDPR rules.

- QR codes that allow your customers to check-in on your premises or at specific locations in your premises (think tables for restaurants, or specific rooms you may be hiring out, etc - it's really flexible!).

- 5 Day free trial (card details required for trial to deter SPAM signups), but you can cancel with two clicks of the mouse and you won't be charged at all if you cancel within 5 days.

- Quick downloadable "table cards" with instructions on how to check-in - or download the QR code and make your own!
A pin-code based solution for people who can't scan QR codes on their phones.

- Visitor data is stored encrypted and automatically deleted after 21 days.

- Exportable tracing report that allows you to select a range of dates and exports the visitors who were present on those dates - this can then be passed to the health authority or can be used by yourself to contact people who may have been exposed.
- Only £80 a year (+VAT) for the next few weeks (will be going up in price slightly after that), that works out as £6.60ish a month (cheap as chips, and hopefully you won't need this tool in a year's time!).

I've made an in-depth video tour here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7trcradOfM

Any more questions - drop them in the comments or drop me an email to [email protected].

Big big thanks to Lorraine at Lake Mill Consulting Services for help getting the privacy details right, and to Scott at Foxborough for giving me the initial idea!

*Special limited-time launch price. Price does not include VAT. This price is for small and medium sized businesses only.

01/04/2020

We're proud to have helped build the Together14 website, and a big shout out to everyone working to help keep us all safe and well in these mad times.

TOGETHER14 - NHS FUNDRAISER

Website - http://together14.co.uk

Hey all, I hope you are keeping well in these crazy times.

I was recently feeling a bit useless when all I could do was sit at home, knowing some many NHS staff, and other sectors were going to work. I wanted to do something but was sure what. That’s when I came up with this concept.

I wanted to do a fundraising campaign based around the number 14, I kept seeing news articles about people working Intense 14 hours shifts, so I decided one day I would cycle on my bike trainer constantly for 14 hours to signify a frontline workers shift. Tomorrow is that day! Then I thought it would be wonderful if other people did their own activity based around that magic number “14” and showed a group togetherness, whilst raising vital funds for the NHS

So head over to the website and follow the Instagram. Read all about it, DONATE (any penny helps) and create your own challenge, then share to your world.

Share - Donate - Challenge - Do - Share

All for our glorious NHS, and those that work within it.

Instagram -

Please share this far and wide, I’ll be live feeding my ride throughout the day tomorrow,so join me if your bored, and head over to the website now to make a mini donation, any number helps.

Love Gavin. X

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Special thanks to Cannar Creative and Black Lab Software for their help with the branding and website for together14!

25/03/2020

Just a bit of fun this morning - here's some websites and branding I did EIGHTEEN years ago as a wide-eyed teen wanting to get into the 'new media' industry as it was called back then. These were all done in Microsoft Frontpage.

And then, some screenshots of logo development for Black Lab itself - it's mostly just me having fun around the concept of basing the company around my dog!