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I’m just about to speak with a Financial Management guy who has set up a (terrific) web site and wants some strategic and general web advice I’ve been thinking of the way to differentiate him from his competitors on his web site when I saw he had this quote posted: at the top of a […]

There is tons of user generated content being added to sites – think Google Video, MySpace, You Tube – right now, along with a tremendous growth in video blogging. Whilst no-one (of the smaller video producers) has quite figured out to generate consistent revenue from it yet, there are huge opportunities out there in Internet […]

I’ve written a blog post pretty much everyday for the past 3 and a bit years. There’s a whole range of things I’ve written about and everything is easily accessible via the ‘Archive’ section. That’s at the top left of this page – just select a month and you can read everything I wrote for […]

Funny how these things happen just after I write about them. I’m a member of the ‘The Lord’s Taverners’ – a cricketing charity group who raise funds for disadvantaged and underprivileged youth. One of the ways the charity raises money is via raffles. In the mail today I received a letter with a raffle ticket […]

At the moment we’re doing 8 web sites sites. Only one is below $5,000 (it’s $4,400). I was looking at competitor sites last night and man, are they cheap! A lot of them do a 10 page web design for $900. And the sites can look okay. I look at that pricing and just shake […]

If you read this web site regularly, or listen to our podcast, you might remember me mentioning a site we redid where the client didn’t like what we’d done. She changed her mind on agreeing to the site design and the strategy we’d devised. I eventually talked her around to testing our new design and […]

On Saturday night I went for dinner with some friends to a local Thai restaurant. We were sitting outside in an Arcade type set up when one of the women in the group (there were 6 of us at dinner) noticed this sign on the window of a Beauty Salon. The 3 wives at the […]

Okay, take a look here. See the comment from some guy called Anthony Dever. Oooooooh. “This is who I say who you should get, Brendon. Oooooh I’m so good, I’m Anthony Dever! I was interviewed by Amanda Keller. I started the Fuglies. Ooooooooh.” So what Clown Boy! Who the hell is Anthony Dever and why […]

Because of the recent running I’ve done I’ve been visiting a few running type forums. One thing I always enjoy seeing is the fantastic sense of community these places build up. I have been reading a few posts and people have been talking about injuries – whether it’s aching legs, foot fungus, runner’s bowel or […]

I’ve had a number of people email and ask why screen resolution matters to a web designer. Here’s the answer. Below is the same web site shown how they look in different resolutions. 800 x 600 screen resolution   1024 x 768 screen resolution   1280 x 1024 screen resolution   About 12% of people […]