Last year was the first time I had written a list of new years resolutions for myself, mainly aimed at my goals for work, but also taking in family and personal goals. Last week a wrote a review of that list, I did OK, but not brilliant. I definitely over reached, wanting to do too much – taking on both more client work and more personal projects. So this year will be a little different.

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Adorned produce cute handmade T-Shirts for babies and toddlers – and as a relatively new parent I was rather excited when this project landed on my doorstep. Samantha who runs Adorned had seen some of my previous projects and is a customer of company whose website I built a few years ago — Fabric Rehab — so was familiar with my work and the type of website’s that I build.

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Simon Kenyon is going for a bike ride in November, not quite an afternoon trip through the countryside though – he’ll be starting in Vietnam and ending up 11 days later in Cambodia, cycling for 500 miles in 30 degree heat and 85% plus humidity. Madness… but it is for a very good cause. Simon is raising money for the Alzheimer’s Society and aims to raise £2,000.

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Launched last week – a gallery, a shop to sell prints and a doodle blog for regular scribbles and doodles to be published. I’ve known and worked with Graham for a number of years through my work with a local studio who print his reproductions, Graham has mentioned a website to promote his work as well as selling prints of his considerable catalog of images. Finally, towards the end of 2010 Graham wanted to get started.

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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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The Gambia Partnership originally wanted me to update their existing website – but the website wasn’t in the best shape, so I suggested a redesign and fresh build. After reading an article on the Web Design Depot last year I knew their existing content would have to be worked into a very specific form to help gain the visitors attention, to quickly get across their message and then to ask for a donation.

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Debra Orton, and her husband Adam, approached me to design and build them a website to promote – and to sell, a new collection of fine art prints by Debra. The subject of the illustrations is close to my heart so I was very excited by the project – the prints are based on Football stadiums and their surrounding areas, featuring landmarks that are close to the hearts of loyal supporters.

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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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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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I recently started a project that’s being built in Wordpress and requires a gallery to show off photos of recent events, a simple task I thought. How wrong could I of been?! After trawling the internet, exhausting numerous Google searches and testing a couple of possible gallery plugins – I settled on Lazyest Gallery.

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