Do you really need a professional copy writer for your site?
This is not a simple yes or no question. Often you are your best advocate. No one is more qualified or should have more enthusiasm than you to extol the virtues of you or your business. However, you are also busy and often have to run a business as well as all your personal responsibilities. So what is the best approach?
Your website needs a business plan
It is amazing how many people come to me to design a website with only a vague notion of why they want one…You will build a website without doing any real research, no plan, and often no real idea of how your website will support your business.
Why use WordPress?
As those who know me will testify, I have not always been the biggest fan of Content Mangment Systems (CMS). In my time I have worked on a few large commercial systems and that experience has left me a little cynical. I still come to each new system with a touch of healthy sceptism. However, I have now been using Wordpress, for my own and client sites, since the release of 3.0 back in June last year (June 2010). Why did I make the jump?
Working on the move
As I’m going to be travelling a lot more I have been putting together my essentials for working on the move. Generally I need enough kit so that I can attend meetings, take notes at conferences, run workshops, do a quick alteration to a website, or just keep myself amused on the train.
Creativity is not about straight lines
There is nothing I enjoy more than that first blank page when I start a new project. I love to move my ideas around, work out how each element will interact with the next. If I’m designing a new interface then I’m sketching out the display, putting in each form element. For me this process is never tidy.