Where have I been..?
I’ve not been posting on here in a while now, and I do apologise for this! It’s embarrassing that Wordpress is updating quicker than I’m posting.. what I need is other writers! If you want to help me out writing about technology/gaming/internet etc. let me know!
Anyway, what have I been up to:
Most of my time has been taken up by an exciting project i’ve been working on at: http://www.MatlockTown.net
This site will be a social network for my local town of Matlock with all the greatest features of the big social sites such as a footerbar chat like facebook/myspace, image tagging and adding video streams from sites like YouTube! Contact details can be found on the site if you want to take part in Beta testing it!
Another site I’ve been working on is called M.A.S.T found at: http://www.mastrust.org
M.A.S.T stands for Matlock Area Schools Trust, they attend school assemblies and help run childrens clubs to promote the Christian faith. You can find out more about them by visiting the website. I designed (I know the design isnt great, but im not a designer..) and developed a simple CMS for them to manage/update their site.
Promotion and Advertising has been my biggest weakness but I’m improving and learning of new ways to do this. I have 2 facebook accounts (1 personal and 1 for website promotion), 2 Twitter accounts (both promotion), 2 YouTube accounts (both personal but thinking of another for promotion). Along with social advertising I have been reading up on SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) techniques to help promote my clients websites.
OddJobs are what I have been doing on and off over the last 5 or so years on the internet. Helping coders out with snippets, creating mods for established scripts. The latest addition to this was for a CMS called BigAce which I helped translate from Bad English to hopefully Good English – Not really translating but it certainly felt like it with the number of mistakes I had to correct! Other than that I also make a small mod for the CMS called the Twitter Portlet which is basically just a widget that displays a Twitter feed but it only took about 5 minutes to make.. Link: http://www.bigace.de
Lastly is the social/personal activities, while I spend alot of time with my clients work, outside of this I tend to spend alot of time with my friend/family taking trips, playing football weekly, pool/snooker, gaming and eating out. We all need to have a social life!
Anyway, none of the above is an excuse for my post absence on here and I do wish to continue to add some technology news/reviews etc. as im sure your now sick of my personal ones ranting, complaining etc.