is an impressive looking Tumblr blog showcasing the latest web companies, both recently launched as well as those in public and private beta. I’ve had a look through the websites and apps that are on the site and it’s a good list.

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Fresh Nutrition Advice is a service provided by Fiona Hayward to help people eat healthily, she offers one to one sessions to her clients and needed a website to advertise her service as well as providing advice to visitors via a blog. Fiona wanted a colourful website that was easy to use and simply to navigate, she also wanted to use lots of images of healthy food.

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CopyJim.com is copywriter James Wade and he wanted a website to promote his services, and an additional blog make regular posts for existing and potential clients to read. The site was built in WordPress using a custom theme. I’ve previously been starting off with the pre-installed default theme – but recently I’ve switched to using Starkers by Elliott Jay Stocks as a starting point.

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After sorting out a task managing application I went on a mission to find a similarly impressive invoicing app. I was previously using Google Docs to create invoices; exporting them as a PDF and then emailing the invoice as an attachment to my clients. This was OK as I had my invoices backed up / saved to the cloud – which meant they were safe and accessible from any computer or mobile device, the downside was that it took time to write out the invoice, export it and then send the email.

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Dave Bond already had a web presence when he asked me to redesign his aging website, he had begun to explore social media and had set up Twitter and Facebook accounts to promote his personal training services, but his website was falling behind in getting across his message. Dave had lots of ideas about content for the site and how it would be kept up to date, with new content being added all the time in the form of articles he had written or sourced.

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A website that I’ve been working on for quite some time went online earlier this week. I was initally contacted in October last year by RubyFruit, a company that produces a range of jewellery for babies and children. They initially wanted their website in a hurry – built in time for Christmas – this was [...]

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Designing flyers, leaflets, postcards and business cards can be a risky business – a single typo, missed by the designer and the client signing it off goes to print, suddenly you have 10,000 business cards that are completely unusable – they have to be reprinted with the cost that comes along with it. Even worse [...]

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On my way to work I drive past a house, the owner currently has their car for sale – I’m not 100% sure what the car is because the only you get is that there is a sandwich board outside with 3 words chalked on; “Car for Sale” Now, I can’t imagine anybody driving past [...]

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I recently purchased a WordPress Theme that had a CSS style sheet that wasn’t arranged in a format that I’m used to – which made it a bit trickier to work with. So I used Clean CSS which tidied up the CSS and rearranged it into a format that I’m used to, making it a [...]

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I have been using TinyURL for quite some time – mainly when passing links to friends via Twitter and Facebook. I really liked it’s simplicity, copy the link from your browser, header over to www.tinyurl.com, paste it into the form and seconds later a shortened link appears ready to use. TinyURL also has a bookmark [...]

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