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Secrets of the Titanic

Posted on March 23, 2012 9:41 pm

To coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, the author Gavin Weightman asked me to build him a landing page that will hopefully help sell his new book, Secrets of a Titanic Victim: the story of the real My Fair Lady.   

Anyone who loves the movie, My Fair Lady, will know that it is based on George Bernard Shaw's play, Pygmalion (1912). What most people don't know ...

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Philip Caveney's Landing Page

Posted on February 10, 2012 12:05 am

One of my latest pieces of work is a landing page for Philip Caveney, author of the best-selling Sebastian Darke novels.

This page is designed to attract school administrators, with a view to their booking Philip for a school visit.

Funny, most of us think that authors are all wealthy like J.K. Rowling or Bernard Cornwell, but actually most need to supplement their income with school visits or by ...

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I Dreamt I was a Dinosaur..

Posted on February 9, 2012 11:59 am

Being a self employed web designer is tough sometimes, particularly at Christmas, when money is tight and when a website is the last thing people are thinking of spending their money on.

Christmas '11 was particularly tough. I didn't have much work in and I was getting by on a combination of advertising revenue and a couple of ecommerce enterprises I have running. None of which would keep the wolves ...

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The Price is Right!

Posted on February 8, 2012 9:22 pm

If I charged for every hour of time and every bit of work that I did, then, quite simpy, no-one would ever be able to afford me!

But one of the trickiest parts about my business is knowing how much to charge a client for the work that I do.. Charge too much, and you scare potential clients away.. But charge to little and customers view you with a cynical eye. This is exactly what happened when an ...

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Grandad Duty!

Posted on February 5, 2012 1:17 pm

I have known some pretty intelligent people in my time, and Helen Marshall, founder and director of Helios People Development, is certainly one of them.

Helios is a management training and development company that helps employers improve the performance of their managerial staff through a range of NVQ training programmes.

I'll never forget Helen's very first phonecall.. It came when I was on what ...

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