Another new Textpattern site launch from FCS Websites this week – for Lake District Boat Charter, a company specialising in yacht hire on Ullswater in the Lake District. Some fancy PNG transparency going on with this one, and it works in IE6 too!
Just launched this week is a new site for Zaanti complementary therapies, Nottingham. This job came as a referral from a previous customer, and Zaanti had a really clear brief – light, open and easy to navigate site with no annoying bits! I have had a Zaanti massage and definitely recommend their services – the massage was amazing 
Litmus allows you to test your websites and emails across a large number of browsers and email clients. If you have ever had to program a HTML email, you will understand the horror and pain involved in making it work across all email clients.
For an entirely reasonable fee, Litmus gives you fast, pretty testing with shareable links for your websites and emails. Well recommended!
Second Wednesday, the meetup for web industry folks in Nottingham has risen from the ashes. Join us for an evening of beer and good conversation covering technology, clients and anything else that comes our way. There is nobody in charge, no entrance fee and very little in the way of direction – we just go wherever we go…
Second Wednesday
– The “official” website.
I got really interested in traditional investments such as stocks, shares, bonds, savings etc a few months ago after reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad. When I did more research though, it seemed to me that I hand over my hard earned monies to someone that invests them for me, takes a cut and has minimal risk. This sounds ridiculously risky to me. Add in the fact that my return is likely to be 10% if I am REALLY lucky and that forces beyond my control would shape my “investments” it was looking less and less attractive. Then there is the fact that I could LOSE MY CAPITAL as well. Not good.
So if I invested £1000 in something or other, I could expect up to £100 interest over the course of a year? Rubbish. That’s not even worth me doing the paperwork for.
So instead of trusting my money to “experts” and hoping for a meagre return, I am just going to hold on to my money and develop my business. With my website business having low overheads and the profit being based on labour rather than trading of goods, I can make that same £100 in a few hours of web designing (even after paying tax on it) instead of POSSIBLY making that same £100 in a year with “investments”.
I realise there are some people out there that make a fortune out of the stock market and other investments, but in my position it is extremely risky and even in the best-case scenario would only return a small profit.
