its a mad mad mad mad year

This year has been the maddest year yet. It started with a splutter, seeing me walking around a business estate knocking on doors and waving my card in everyone's face and now see's me never leaving the office as im far too busy.

I have managed to keep all my clients happy enough that they have all returned with more work. Ive even seen a few faces from my past. a couple of ex-bosses (who's bridges I thought well and truly burned) have contacted me with work. Nice work too, Ive updated a site for Disney for one, and built a lovely flash product slider for another. Check out the Jasper Morrison site, im quit pleased with the slider I wrote completely from scratch.

Last month I worked on a project for Amaze in Runcorn that got my juices flowing. A new flash site for a Playstation 3 game from Evolution studios. A month of hardcore coding has produced this site. The guys I worked with were amazing and I learned a lot about structuring my actionscript classes. (seems the site isnt live at this time) It sthe first time Ive actually worked with a flash team on a purely development project.

Website generator has taken off this year with a new site at www.themealmakers.co.uk
Ive written a bespoke ordering system for it and it shows off how versatile the website-generator system is.

Basically ive created a shopping cart that will plug-into the website generator system, ive built it in such a way that its easy to alter to suit any future sites.

Ive also been involved with the re-design and build of the new look for www.lightart.co.uk, this should be going live soon. More news on this project later once it goes live.

Ive been busy creating a few banners for an agency who will remain nameless at the moment. (nothing cloak and dagger I just dont want to offer a list of clients thats all)

And Im currently working on a project for yet another new client that involves a fantastic CDROM, screenshots and production notes to follow.

Ive decided to send my clients VOIP phones this year for Christmas, ill also add a tin of quality streets too. Ive been using a skype phone for the past 2 weeks and have spent roughly £3.00 on calls so far, so considering my monthly phone bills have been in excess of £170.00 I think spending money on VOIP phones for my clients it will pay off in the end. Ive produced a couple of Brookfresh stickers and the phones are now fully logo'd up.