Hello everyone last night I was messing around with GarageBand on my macbook and was trying to come up with a nice little sound intro for my video blogs, so here is what I came up with (its nothing special I thought like the tuning and the whole electrical surge sound would go along with the theme of the site).

Let me know what you guys think.

Hi folks,

I’m really sorry about the lack of updates recently, I’ve swapped my internet over to 8meg (previously I was running on a 1meg connection) but now i’m back for good.

The new design should be up tonight, just a few errors and stuff to be fixed and that’ll be it, so check back soon!

Regards.

MaxBlogPress have recently just designed an amazing new plugin which I found out by viewing John Chow’s latest post. The plugin allows you to add advertisements or any link source you wish to the very top of your screen. This is really useful as it is the first noticeable thing that a visitor lays eyes on, so I’m going to take this further and will be selling 5 text links all with a Weight of 4 for $20 each per month. Basically all the ‘Weight of 4′ means is all advertisements will be rotating the same and will be displayed equally. The higher the weight the more exposure it’ll get - 10 being the highest.

You’ll notice i’ve added links already, these are just link backs to my recent blog posts which I have all set them with a weight of 2.

Statistics:

• January 2008
• Last Year Statistics
• January Days of Month

So if your interested in buying a text link please email me or use the contact page.

Update: Sorry I have to laugh, if you look at John Chows post. He’s already made $500 since installing the MaxBlogPress Plugin hehe! Crazy!

Regards

I thought following my interview over at Lushable I came up with the idea to giving me people a little insight to what goes on in a day of my life. I’ll do a day-description for a usual weekday and then one for Saturday day & night.

James’ Weekday Happenings 

• Wake up for around 8 o’clock.

• Go downstairs and make some breakfast usually toast & tea.

• Once i’ve finished my breakfast i’ll just back upstairs and switch on the computer, then i’ll check my emails and write on a little post-it of what work needs to be completed for that day.

• I’ll then come off the computer and jump in a quick shower. After showering, i’ll get dressed and pack my things for university.

• In University i’ll do four hours, consisting of Multimedia (Art, Product Design based), Multimedia Graphics (Photoshop, Printing etc) and Video Editing (Adobe Premier Pro, Adobe Audition etc).

• After University i’ll come back home and go straight onto the computer and wait for dinner which is usually around 5 - 6PM. On the computer i’ll usually check my emails again and do the work that needs to be done. I’ll also check my websites/blog.

• After tea and being on the computer for a few hours, I’ll probably put on a DVD or go pay a little visit to my gran or something.

Alot of other things happen during the week, like football training, the gym and have nights in with the girlfriend although the above are the basic things which happen on a weekday.

James’ Weekend Happenings (Saturday)

• Firstly i’ll usually wake up a little later around 1ish due to probably staying on the computer late from the night before.

• I’ll get up and i’ll check emails or whatever but not for long.

• I’ll then jump into the shower and get dressed and hit the city centre with a few mates. In town we’ll buy some alcohol, grab a bite to eat and most definitely buy some new clothes for that night.

• Around 5 o’clock i’ll be home and i’ll have dinner. After dinner i’ll jump on the computer and talk to a few folk until around 7ish.

• I’ll jump in another shower about 7 and then after this come out and get dressed for going out clubbing.

• After i’m all dressed and set i’ll usually head down to my mate garys and we’ll drink for about 2 and a half hours. After this we’ll get a taxi and jump into town and find a pub to go to until hitting the club that we’ll be in for the rest of the night.

Basically thats what happens on my saturday, I’m a student so I love my nights out and I make the most of them when they happen. If me and my mates are lucky enough we’ll hopefully find a party afterwards and just crash at someones house!

Lushable | Technology News

I’ve recently been contacted by a good friend of mine Jason to be interviewed on his new blog Lushable. So if you would like to have a look, do so by clicking here.

What a year its been, this post is just dedicated to 2007 and some of the things which have been eventful in my freelancing career.

CreativeSTL | Skins, Templates & Logos 

Firstly and most important was the beginning of CreativeSTL. Myself, Tom & Gary all working on it together to adventure the world of freelance. We done quite well over the three or four months being online raking in around mid $x,xxx which isn’t too bad. After selling I felt quite bad, although good things come and good things go. Gary & Tom weren’t too fussed, they had other things happening at the time and couldn’t delve their time into helping with CSTL and neither could I. So looking on the brighter note, it was probably best to sell it.

The changing face of EatFruitPlease.

Some of the designs below have been used in the past year as the main blog design for EatFruitPlease, although some I have designed and not bothered my arse getting coded… so have a peak!

• Design 1
• Design 2
  
• Design 3
• Design 4
• Design 5

Becoming a student at Glasgow Caley Uni.

After so much hard work in school, getting the highers and grades that I needed I eventually went into University in September. But in 2008, I plan to look for a full time job and take a year out, although this has definitley been a turning point in my life.

Blogging Like Mad 

This has only been happening recently, around the start of december I decided that I really needed to update and blog more and i’ve been doing just that. I am trying to get at least 2-3 blog posts online a day, equalling to 14-15 posts per week. Now we’re in 2008, I plan to give my readers something to read about in these three posts a day, not just some short updates, the posts I plan are to be informal and give tips and advice to other freelancers.

Thats it really, nothing really much else to say. If I think of anything else i’ll be sure to add it!

FreelanceSuite.com

I registered this domain over at GoDaddy and had plans for it to be a blog offering web design support and also offer resources and articles which were web design related. Although like always I have always got something else on which I have to put my time into. So I’ve put this up for sale at Sitepoint and also over at TalkFreelance.

If your interested and want to know more, then please contact me via email.

Kindest Regards

Hello everyone,

The festive period is coming to an end with Christmas & Boxing Day almost done and dusted the new year is approaching. I can’t remember whatthis years goals were but i’ll definitely keep track of my goals for 2008.

• My first main goal is to get fit again and get built up. My girlfriend is a model for a small agency in Glasgow and she needs a male model to do some photography so shes asked me. I’m not poser material although I think the whole process will be quite fun, so my main goal is to feel better about myself and start getting fit again only doing more body building.

• Secondly I am going to go find work. Thats right, I am going to take a year out at university and try gain some experience as a junior designer at a local design firm here in glasgow.

• Thirdly I am going to expand on my skills. I am going to hopefully learn more in video editing such as programs like Adobe Premier Pro, Adobe Audition etc, I’ve done two modules on it in university and found it quite interesting so i’m going to delve into it a bit more. I will try and learn some new design programs aswell like Illustrator.

• And last but not least I am finally going to try and learn to code! Yep valid XHTML/CSS, simply to try and make more money as a freelancer.

Thats about it, over the course of 2008 i’ll be posting on how I personally think I am getting on with my goals. If you could be so nice and leave your comments and what your goals are going to be for 2008, i’d love to know

Today, I’ve been working on getting a really nice professional look for KolaKube and I finally got what I was looking for. A really simple look. I’ve been reading WebMediaBlogger recently and really liked the idea of this article. Basically, I won’t be showing a link to my services, as WMB says it sounds crazy although it encourages the visitor to email and get in touch which is better than someone just simply browsing your work and possibly forgetting to contact you or even just hit the little red ‘x’.

I’d like to know what you think of the landing page.

Regards,

James