Maltpress

To sail the wide accountant-sea! My latest business and money-saving tip: pay an accountant. No, seriously.

I’ve just updated WordPress on two blogs in about an hour. While watching TV and eating my tea. A lot easier than I thought, utterly painless and WordPress 2.7 is fab. Hurrah! In other news, Happy New Year!

A quick update on my availability and new work: I now have a full time job, and as such I’m not available during office hours. I am still available to do some work, but I’ll be a lot more selective about the jobs I take on now – I’ll be refocussing on writing, which you [...]

Every year I try to give a little to a chosen charity to make myself feel better about the excellent job I have. This year I’m giving what I can to help The Samaritans build a new room in London. Find out more here.

I’ve just completed my first full financial year of self employment – and, like my past anniversaries, I’ve blogged a little business advice. This time it’s job sheets and project folders – the best way for the busy freelancer to organise themselves.

Last night I went along to my first ever poetry slam, in Cambridge, and read a couple of poems – a very old one and quite a new one. Much to my surprise (and probably the chagrin of the far better poets there) I won the audience vote with my incredibly crude old poem! It’s [...]

I’ve just completed work on a rare (but nicely distracting) design and build job for a friend – Heather Baker, an actress based in Cambridge. Heather needed a site to carry her portfolio and biographical details to send out for castings – so I’ve built a site with a simple gallery and some YouTube videos.

Find out more about the site here.

So here it is – my new website, design finished, content finished, contact form done… and I’m pretty pleased with it. You might see a few little tweaks over the next week or so, but I think it’s now time to leave well alone and take a step back. It’s now time to get in touch with a load of potential clients and let them know what I’m up to.

If you’re interested in how I built the site, click the “read more” link to find out…

There’s about to be a big change on my website – and my blog. I’m going to be moving the blog off blogger (it’s a great system, but I want it all centralised) and to a completely WordPress driven site. There might be a bit of disruption on the site over the weekend but normal service will be resumed as soon as possible…