I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my readers, clients, supporters, friends and family a very happy and restful Christmas.
Thank you for all your support during the year nearly past – it is very much valued.
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Earlier this month saw the launch of a brand new and much improved website for the Primary Trauma Care Foundation – a charity working globally to improve standards in Trauma Care. More than 10,000 people die across the world each day from injury – in road traffic accidents, natural disasters, violence and conflict. It’s a shocking statistic, but many of these deaths could be prevented with better 1st response trauma care.
We built the website with a number of different user groups in mind – from those who had never heard about the charity before & were potential supporters, to the many volunteer doctors around the world who attend and run the PTC courses.
The website was built to function in older browsers & systems in the developing world, as well as to encourage interaction between team members – with the facility for users to post news stories and forthcoming course details directly from the front end of the website.
From a professional viewpoint, it’s been a fascinating & rewarding project to work on. You can see the website here: www.primarytraumacare.org.
I’ve finally gotten around to updating my portfolio with the latest Hexagon projects – quite a variety as you can see, but that’s what makes my job so interesting!!
Have a look at the latest projects on my portfolio page here and let me know what you think!
During a recent meeting with a new client and a local copywriter (Gail Gibson), the subject of Twitter came up. This is always an interesting one for me as a web designer. The reaction I sometimes get from people when I tell them that no, I don’t tweet, and no, I’m not on Facebook, is, well…. interesting.
“WOW!? You’re a website designer and you’re not on Twitter?! Surely you should be on Twitter?!!”
But a comment Gail made was spot on. She said something like (& forgive me Gail if I don’t get this word for word – it was a couple of weeks ago!!) – “But Twitter just wouldn’t suit your style of business”.
And she’s exactly right. If I were to summarise my style of business, these things come to mind:
And by it’s very nature, Twitter is more about getting stuff out regularly and quickly, rather than producing bespoke, high quality content. It’s more about publishing to a group of people, rather than building in-depth relationships with individual clients.
Maybe. Maybe not. But it’s a risk I’m willing to take. If I’m going to do something, I like doing it properly. As a person, if I did Twitter properly, I would spend far far too much time on it. And that means I would be spending less time on my clients.
Funnily enough, a few days after my meeting, I then read this article from Chris Johnson on best practices for small business websites. I think there’s a lot of sense in it.
That all depends on your outlook & your business. There is no doubt it has generated masses of business for many companies & individuals. I have clients who have generated business directly through Twitter.
But when considering whether Twitter is worth the investment, I think it’s very important to ask yourself the question – does Twitter really suit your style of doing business?
… I’ve gotten around to updating my portfolio! Sorry it’s taken me so long – things have been pretty hectic here in the Hexagon office!!
Anyway, enjoy looking through it, and let me have your thoughts!
Just got back from the High Wycombe ‘What’s Stopping You?’ Business Link event, where I was asked to exhibit as web designer – it went really well, although my feet are aching rather!!!
Talking to so many people who are thinking about setting up in business took me back to a year and a half ago when Hexagon Webworks was started….so much has happened since then!! And I managed to stand up and speak for 10 minutes in front of a largish audience – which is quite something for me who doesn’t like presenting…
For anyone there who didn’t manage to pick up a copy, here’s my ‘Choosing the right web designer’” guide.
And I look forward to getting in touch with those of you who gave me your details. Any more queries, questions or advice needed, please just get in touch!
After over a year and a half in business, I thought it was about time my own site was given a lick of paint.
This is the result…hope you like it!
