November 14, 2008 – 12:34 pm Geremy Butler, greatly respected master photographer, recently commissioned us to create a new photo blog website to display his work.
We’re delighted to say that this was a word-of-mouth referral from our friend Steve Grayson, who was obviously so pleased with his sites that he ‘told a friend’ – the best form of testimonial that any business can receive!
Geremy is a specialist photographer based in London, using his vast experience built up over forty years in the trade he is able to deliver very highly detailed photographic reproductions of fine art. He is often commissioned by museums, universities and stately homes to photograph archives, treasures and works of art.
To achieve the great detail required for this work Geremy does actually use a large format ‘Gandolfi’ camera of the style shown in his logo.
Geremy’s other specialisms are architecture photography and church photography – he told me:
It’s all about the lighting; whether you’re lighting-up a great work of art so that the resultant photograph truly shows the artist’s brush strokes, or waiting for the sun to fall from exactly the right angle on the facade of a famous London building. With years of experience and practice you get to know the right way, and the right time of day …
The WordPress content management system (CMS) is so simple to use that Geremy and Steve can now continue to grow this site themselves by uploading showpiece images from Geremy’s vast collection – I’m looking forward to seeing this site develop and to viewing more of Geremy’s photo collection.
November 10, 2008 – 12:44 pm There’s a theory that when you’re creating a questionnaire or survey of your customers, the one question that you should place above all others is:
Would you recommend us to a friend?
It’s a testing question that prompts revealing responses. People greatly value their friends and will not refer them to you unless they actually believe in you themselves …
When you receive unprompted referrals make sure that you say thanks to the referrer, and let them know that you really appreciate it …
November 7, 2008 – 10:09 am My parents have recently bought themselves a very nice camper van and have plans to hit the road in 2009.
So I put together this personal blog so that all their family and friends can follow their adventures.
Note the choice of domain name. The mission here was not to come up with a site name which will be easily found in the search engines or good for SEO. Instead we picked a name that would be easy to remember, and easy to tell friends.
What we came up with is simply three 3-letter words combined, and slightly humorous – equals easy to remember and easy to type into a browser for direct access …
It’s a nice looking theme and ideally suited for a travel blog – the photos in the top right corner change randomly as you change pages.
WordPress is so simple to use that I’m sure my silver-surfer parents will master it in no time and all the tribe will be using RSS and Google Reader to follow their every word.
November 2, 2008 – 7:30 pm What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end of little consequence.
The only consequence is what we do.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900)
October 31, 2008 – 12:10 am We’re big fans of WordPress.
WordPress was originally created as blogging software. A blog (from ‘web-log’) is typically an online journal written by an individual or a company to provide ongoing and up-to-date News and information.
However, over time and with continued development WordPress has become so much more than just a blogging tool, and is now commonly used as a Content Management System (CMS) to build websites which can then be easily edited and grown by non-technical website owners.
WordPress is an Open Source project, which essentially means that it is free to use.
There’s a huge community working on and around the WordPress solution. This community develops Themes which can be simply uploaded to your project to completely change the look and style of your blog / website.
You can also upload Plugins to add specific functionality to WordPress.
Anyway, we could go on ad-infinitum about how great WordPress is, but the real reason for this post was to let you know that a new release – WordPress 2.7 – is due out on November 10th and we’re really looking forward to getting to grips with the latest improvements …
