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Hi everyone, this is a brief post to say to you all what a pleasure it is going into the new year and actually still having this website as my portfolio! I wouldn’t have done it if it weren’t for you loyal clients! Now that FlockABuck has been up for a while, it’s time to recap and get your thoughts! Let me know what you thought of the idea, should I keep it going? If you have any other suggestions, please let me know via the comments section.

I am also doing a new year promotion and giving the next five people to contact me for a design $50.00 off any design they order!

Regards,
James

Hello everyone, I am glad to announce yet again another project of mine. Introducing Twitter Backgrounds. TwitterBGs is a website were you can come and get your Twitter profile spiced up and looking sexy. I will obviously be designing the backgrounds and if the work load gets too much I will be bringing in a few friends to help design.

Please leave your comments and let me know what you think!

Hello everyone this is a little post to list some of the things that I am aiming for personally for the new year of 2009. I will also list below, the goals I have for online and new plans I have for Flockey.

Personal

• Sign up for the local Gym
• Take up a sport (boxing probably)
• Grow my hair (again)
• Eat more healthier, less Irn Bru & more water!
• Start coding XHTML/CSS
• Pass my second year @ University
• Go camping
• Go to Canada
• Get a part time job at a design studio either in Glasgow or somewhere else.

Online:

• Build up a strong network
• Continue to grow Flockey
• Version 2 of FWD (redesign)
• Start earning at least £1k a month through freelancing and revenue streams on my projects
• Make vBExpress live
• Start a video blog show
• Collaborate with a friend on a project

I guess thats it. I’ll come back next year and see if I’ve managed to accomplish my 2009 goals!

Hi everyone,

I am pleased to announce that I have launched yet another project (this is getting very cliche :p). Over the past couple of months, I have been working my socks off and launching so many projects. Some mini projects and some relatively bigger ones. You could call this project a bigger one. Introducing, WebDevSuite.com.

“To put it bluntly, this is a blog designed for giving you the best help/ideas/inspiration (more words here) on topics related to the creative part of the web community. Such as designers, entrepreneurs, artists, photographers etc. WebDevSuite gather lots of information for topics related to those subjects and posts it online for everyone to look at.”

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Hi everyone, quickly posting to say Merry Christmas and I hope that little red fat man was good to every single one of you! Now did someone say roast’s ready… have a good one folks :)!

Hello everyone, well I made a post earlier about a new project that should be online tonight and yep, it’s done and dusted thanks to Mr. Tomos Wyn who done an awesome job on the Wordpress coding and integration.

Logolize is a daily logo collection and inspiration of logos and brand identities from all over the internet. Basically its nine logos picked at randomly from around the web. The nine logos all link to the website they come from and then below, there is a blog post which will have the logo name and then a link to who designed that logo (the designer/design firm etc).

It’s as easy as that. Wordpress never fails to impress me. It is an extremely versatile piece of software that I will continue to use for future projects. Again a big thanks to Tomos for his amazing work and his effort at punting out this in well under 24 hours! Amazing. Follow him on Twitter.

Again, comments appreciated :)!

Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce that I have launched my third mini-project this year, I give to you StopCrackin.com. Basically what StopCrackin allows you to do, is to record how many times you crack your knuckles whilst working at your computer.

The concept is simple. Basically it’s a way of challenging yourself to try and stop doing it. When I am being productive and hard at work, I do it constantly which isn’t very friendly to my hands that I need to work with!

All you have to do, is simply register with a username, password and email address. Once you hit register, a verification link will be sent to your email inbox that you need to click to activate your account. Once you hit the activation link, you will be directed to the home page again were you will log in to the user area. Once in the user area, you will notice the large “StopCrackin” button that is the used to record the amount of times you crack your knuckles. When you click this button, you will notice that next to the specific day & date, the number next to it will go up by one, representing you cracking your knuckles.

This was a website I thought I’d develop to see if I could challenge myself. It’s one of my main habits that i’ve always wanted to stop and I hope this will help. This was always an experiment to see if such a concept could work, so by all means any suggestions and feedback would be awesome *List them all in the comments section!*

Kindest regards,
James

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I was reading yesthat’s recent post and they linked to an extremely hilarious website called “elfyourself“. I was then just looking through some recent pictures that had been uploaded to Flickr and iJustine had a photo that she just uploaded which looked so perfect to ELF! Check it out LOL!

If you haven’t noticed yet, FeatherCode are our new providers for all xhtml/css coding that we receive from clients. I’d like to thank Tyler - the founder of FeatherCode - for giving me the chance to speak with him about the proposition, and I hope that it turns out to be a fun business partnership which I am confident it will be.

So, as of now. One page XHTML/CSS here at FWD will only cost you $75.00! Now is that cheap or what!

Thanks for reading again folks, I think this is a new record with me posting a good few times the past couple of weeks. I hope to keep this run going. If you have any suggestions for posts by all means give me a shout or drop me an email.

*Check out changes to the about page*

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Hello everyone, yet another blog post! Yep, like the title says, Flockey is giving away free twitter icons for your website or blog. You can preview them here. The icons have been designed by myself and are 100% unique. They can be used on your website/blog… a wee credit to Flockey would be nice

You can download the various files below:

• .PNG
• .PSD & .AI

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Regards,
-jm