Me? Im very busy boy

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Well Im still flat out with things in the business which is a good thing, but it also has been making my social life very hard to exist and annoying Gemma a heap as well. It’s great to see the business going so well and the money coming in. But with still working at Inject-a-Carb part time its making to very hard to manage my time. Oh and also throw in a Uni subject Im doing at the moment and you can see why its very hard, assignment due Monday infact.
Me and Gem really want to buy a house soon but its just so hard for me to weigh up as to what way to go with my working life. But I know one thing, PX Webdesign will always come first as I can see the potential so greatly and its the reason why Im allowing myself to get so busy.

Had a very interesting weekend of last, we had a house warming party and a few people turned up but quite a few of Gem’s didnt turn up which left her on her own for a while which really sucked. Then there was Ryan, oh how he made it an interesting night indeed. Lets just say that boy is not allowed at our place drunk again He also had a bit of a tiff with Gemma which is kinda resolved now (thankfully) but he’s pretty pissed with Jess (her sister), so I don’t know what will come from that. What caused it? Well Jess kinda put a bit of spit in his drink and handed it back to him and didnt tell him till later.

Anyways, back to my work for now, Im actually in the office at the moment and Ill have to put up some photos of it as its finished now. Also before I go I must highly recommend Pandora to everyone. Its a streaming radio type website but has no audio ads and you practically choose the music. Put simply you put in a fav song or artist then it will stream a heap of songs with the same musical qualities to what you put in.
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Finally making some progress

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Things have been very up and down for me since I moved house and also turned to part time leaving a larger dependance on money from the business. Things are starting to pick up quite well in the web development side of things but one weird thing we have noticed is now how people are starting to “shop around” for who to design their website and the $$ factor is playing a very weird role. We have lost opportunitys from what we have been told due to our pricing (which mind you is still very competitive for what we offer). Now first up you would think we must be pricing too high, but it isn’t just that, we have had clients that nearly didn’t go with us because they thought we were too cheap. It really comes down to the old you get what you pay for theory but we are developing ways in which we can differentiate ourselves from other ‘web design businesses’ and give new clients a better reason to choose us.

Business issues aside but still on web design. I came across (from my fave news site Digg) a very nice article about web design trends. I have always spoke to others about how there are trends in web design much like the fashion industry and this article puts a lot of this into perspective much better then my words. From what I have generally seen the web design trends infact set the trends early for design for mainstream media like TV and magazines. Some people may disagree but I certainly have seen some good examples especially on Big Brother promo material and quite a bit of Channel 10 promo material as well.