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Happy New Year!

paulstewart — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:17:22 +0000

Happy New Year one and all!

So 2009 was a pretty good year, Finlay’s first birthday, got married, launched Paul Stewart Web Design and so many more fantastic memories courtesy of Finlay.

So today is the 1st anniversary of the launch of Paul Stewart Web Design. I’ve had a good first year creating sites for Ffrothi Coffi, The Beauty Lounge and Inky Quill Productions.

This year I am hoping to create many more sites for other companies aswell as the ongoing maintenance of the existing sites that I’ve created. I’m in the process of working on a new look design for PaulStewartWebDesign.com and am putting together a site to showcase all my graphic design work – PaulStewartCreativeDesign.com

I’ll keep you all updated with how it is all coming along!

In the meantime enjoy the remainder of your first day of 2010 – a new year, a new decade, a new chance!

Designing for 2010

paulstewart — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:43:09 +0000

It’s almost 1 year that Paul Stewart Web Design has been up and running. It’s been a good first year and it’s certainly ending on a very busy high! I’ve just completed the website for Shelly and Liz at The Beauty Lounge in Brynmenyn – http://www.b-lounge.co.uk.

I’m due to finish the website for Inky Quill Productions in the coming weeks now that they have finalised all the copy for their site. Then it’s just a case of finishing my designs for the PSWD 2010 site and updating my portfolio accordingly.

I’m looking forward to giving my own site a new look as it will demonstrate all the new skills that I’ve acquired this year, some PHP, a load more graphic design through my knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks, and a few nifty CSS and JQuery tricks!

All in all I’ve got exciting times ahead. I’m hoping that PSWD’s 2nd year will be a successful one with me drawing in new clients, new ideas and new projects to revel in.

For now, I’m going to disappear and carry on editing some images in Photoshop that I started last night that may possibly feature on the new site! I’ll let you wait and see!

Night all!

World Number 2! I will be Number 1!!

paulstewart — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:39:16 +0000

It appears that my hard work is paying off as tonight when I searched on Google for Paul Stewart, my web design company came up as the second listing. I’m ranked number 2 Paul Stewart in the world. That’s incredible!
I’m hoping that when I publish the websites for The Beauty Lounge and Inky Quill that my search engine rankings will be boosted further. If I can make it to number 1 just on a search by my name then I’ll be ecstatic.

It’s not even as if there are only a few Paul Stewarts in the world, there are millions.

I will continue to work hard and plug my web design company – www.paulstewartwebdesign.com

Working hard

paulstewart — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:08:25 +0000

Today has been a busy day for me, working all day, driving home in the dark, cooking dinner, working again!

I’m currently developing a site for a Beauty Salon in Brynmenyn called The Beauty Lounge. The website will be www.b-lounge.co.uk once I have pointed the DNS to the new server. So apologies but no designs are online at present.

I’ve been forwarded the artwork for their logo today and I’ve now set about incorporating this into the design of the site. I’ll be taking the final designs to the girls this Wednesday for them to sign off. Once this is done I can start the build ready for launch on the 1st December.

Just watching a few re-runs of Friends as I sit on my settee typing this. Waiting for One Tree Hill to start on E4 at 9pm. Should be a good episode tonight.

Back to the job in hand, web design, I’ve got several sites to develop at the moment. It seems that everyone is getting ready for Christmas and the new year and wanting websites to expand their businesses. I’m working on a site for a group of writers, Inky Quill Productions; a site for a Beauty Salon in Cardiff, Nettles Hair and Beauty; a fantastic mobile coffee and snack company, Ffrothi Coffi and also working on the designs for my own site for a new look for 2010.

It’s going to be a busy end to the year but it’s all very exciting. I’m hoping for big things in 2010 for Paul Stewart Web Design. I’m hoping to get involved in more projects and would like to find a suitable charity to support and donate my time to with a view to increasing their profile. I’d also like to try and do some work for companies abroad, I’d like to have reached America by 2012 so need to really up my game and work on some really big projects and start networking more.

Right then I’m going to get back to work now so will write again tomorrow.

Web Design

paulstewart — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:14:40 +0000

I’ve just been working on the IQP website, I’ve written the code for all the pages, put together the navigation structure and have started collating all the images. I need to write the stylesheet which I will probably do on Wednesday at some point. Before then I need to have the copy for each page finalised so that I can begin writing and editing the pages. I anticipate the site being ready for launch at the beginning of November. Certainly from my point of view it will be ready, it will depend however, on what, if any, amendments need making to the page text.

Once this site is built I will be keen to start on another. I’m really getting kicks out of seeing my work proudly displayed on the net. Fingers crossed that I can make a real success out of this.

Who knows what the future will hold …

Open Source Treats

paulstewart — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:16:28 +0000

Hey everyone! I’ve recently come across some amazing programs for use with my design work. They are open source and completely free so I thought that I should spread the word.

They are Aptana Studio, a powerful equivalent to Dreamweaver, GIMP2 and Inkscape.

I already have the Adobe CS3 Master Suite, but I will probably still use these programs aswell. Being as they are free it would be rude not to!

Look them up and download them. Open Source, free software for everyone is the future. Pass the message on!