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You , or your designer, have spent many hours planning and creating your website, the colour scheme is set, the nice flashing images sweeping in from left to right and top to bottom are in place, Read the rest of this entry »

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Designing a Company Website
A website redesign most commonly begins with sourcing of a web design company to undertake the project on behalf of a company. Many companies start the process by assigning someone in the office Read the rest of this entry »

To Whom It May Concern,
Peter Elliott has been fundemental in providing a service “Nulli Secundus”. Not only in the primary stages of ITC education, Web design, production and implementation, but more importantly in the continued  support and guidance he provides, which may i add is with a great deal of “Patience”.
As a new business and an ITC novice, Peter’s wealth of knowledge and contacts in the ITC world, gave us the best possible support package, and provided informed educated advice at all times of the day and night.
I would reccomend Peter’s services to anyone who is starting business and is in need of ITC training, Education and Web Services, and in particular those who would appreciate a personal and dedicated mentor.
Your’s Thankfully,
Jim Coulson. DIP DEA.
see the its hip up north website

Ref ;Besafe Windows Website

I am writing to say how impressed I was when we had our web-site designed by Peter Elliott.   Peter  was recommended to us from a contact and came to our place of work to discuss what we wanted  on our Web-site.
Peter guided us through the process and advised us on colours, lay-outs and the information that we needed.  Peter needed some photographs of properties that we had double-glazed and he added these to the site and wrote information about all our window and door products.
The web-site turned out looking great, it was professional, colourful and very informative, just what we needed.  The double glazing business is very competative and this was one of the best things we could have done to help make ourselves successful in the market.
Well done Peter and Thanks for everything!

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Recession ! What Recession ??
Ok – it does sound flippant and gives the impression that it does not effect me – but of course it does. I, like an awful lot of other people, know someone who has been made redundant – in fact I know of 6 since Christmas – one of them is my wife. I myself only work 3 days per week in my ‘proper job’ and one of my collegues is also going down to 3 days.

We (that is my wife and I) have decided to try get the positive out of this -
My wife has ‘dabbled’ in a part time business for a few years now – she makes crystal wedding tiaras and jewellery See the site here. Now that she will have so much free time (ha ha) we have done some digging and found that our local business link still have funding available for new start up companies. After a lengthy discussion with one of their team where we outlined our grand plan to make an internet one stop wedding shop they have agreed to fund one of their suppliers to help us create an official Business Plan. So we get some good expertise – no charge to us. When this is completed we present this to Business Link and they then decide how to help us move it forward and advise on what , if any, funding is available. This could cover things such as web sites , search engine optimisation and marketting. Nothing in stone yet but a good start.
OK – this is trying to turn a hobby into a business and yes my wife has really good skills for making this kind of thing, but this is just us. There must be lots of things that recently made redundant people can do. For example are you a keen photographer – (have a look at what wedding photographers charge !!!) that could be a good option. Do you make things – can you make enough to go to your local market/craft fair and sell them. Do you paint or write – article writing can be very profitable see here for an idea of where to start – there are tutorials on this site to give help and guidance. A lot of advice about re-starting your career points to trying to utilise what you already know – hence the hobby thing. It doesnt have to be restricted to this , sit down and just bounce ideas around – who knows – one of them might turn out to be a success. I read somewhere recently about the do-ers and those that don’t. The don’t do-ers are those that will not put a timescale on when they will take the first step to their dreams. So it never happens, and they are never seen to fail – because they have done nothing to fail at. The do-ers, they will set a timescale , think carefully and plan, then do – If they fail, that will be a disappointment – but they tried – and will probabaly bounce back with another idea.
So take the positive out of this situation – if you are reading this I assume you have a roof over your head, utilities in the house , a PC, food and maybe even a glass of wine in your hand – think of those that have absolutly nothing, no roof , no food no hope !. look at what you have and appreciate it and enjoy it.

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Why do the call a dental surgery a practice – doesnt inspire you with confidence does it?
The reason for this post – My wife is petrified of the dentist, for no logical reason, and a few weeks ago she had to visit them.
The reason – broken front tooth – the cause – me – no i didnt hit her – it was my generosity.
what had happenned was that it was a nice crisp Sunday afternoon and we decided to visit our local riverside park. Parked the car (a ridiculous 60p per hour – but thats another post) walked into the Park and there was an ice cream van. Being the kind hearted, and very generous husband that i am , i treated her to an ice cream cone. Last of the big spenders thats me!. However, continued with our walk enjoying the crisp fresh air and then suddenly she exclaimed ‘my tooth has just broken’ Actually it wasnt quite said in that mild mannered way – there were a few explitives as you can well imagine. Obviously it was all my fault but thats what being married is all about. So we had to book an emergency appointment at our local dentist. Hence the title of the post ‘ Mr Moler’s Dental Practice’ . i am sure that there will be thousands of you readers who fully understand the fear of the Dentist – a lot of it totally irrational and unjustified. Its similar to the fact that a lot of people squirm at the thought of snakes – there slimy – they are not actually but its the impression that so many people have. Now if i was going to put any part of my body in the’capable’ hands of an expert for anything i would feel so much more comfortable knowing that they had completed all of the practice on someone else and had finished his training and didnt need any more practice – wouldnt you agree??

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