Another day another dollar.

Today, i sent off the content which we wrote to Thistle Fabrication, via email. So hopefully we should get it back by next week and we can begin.

I have been looking at a new car, just for something to do and i have come across this Mitsubishi Outlander. For those of you who don't know it is a little 4x4 suv (sports utility vehicle). Anyway i have found a 2003 model which is black and has a lot of other features put on it. So ill take it for a test drive and see.

I am not really sure why i would want an suv im more a sports car driver but, just the thought about having all that room, being able to tow the boat, do minor offroad driving just seems to interest me.

The ABS, EBD and constant AWD, with the sports semi automatic transmission selection for that added control, and of course when you get bored lol driving experience.

Anyway as far as business goes, we have been quite busy, building up our seo accounts and maintenance accounts, which are very important.

So that is really it. I might have a brand new car in the next week or two, or i might not.

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Monday, a day like no other...

Well, what an eventful weekend it has been. I had the Davis Cup cocktail party, along with three days, of the Davis Cup sitting in the member box, drinking and eating. It was fantastic. But more importantly i was able to set up another two accounts, so it made it all worth while.

As for work today, it was abit slow, i spent most of the time developing new developer contacts which i have sent some work to be done.

We are trialing a new designer at the moment to see what he can come up with so the outcome should be interesting.

Im sure ill have some more interesting things to write tomorrow.

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Writing again...

That right i am. Why? you well that is simple. I have manged to do quite abit of work today so now it is winding down.

I have to go to a informal meeting up at the club in about 2 hours so i thought i would ramble away on here for awhile.

What i have noticed, when scanning through other blogs, that there isn't any blogs like mine. Most of them are about a person's life, not a persons story of development. Once i found this out i have made the effort to write more interesting things. (not counting this entry)

I was reading a blog of a mate of mine who is travelling europe at the moment. He used to go to tafe with me, so it is kind of interesting to see what he is doing. Anyway his blog is detailed and very interesting.

Now about another mate of mine who went to tafe with me and is working for a web design company in Perth. I saw him driving downt he freeway the other day, so i thought i would check out his blog that he used to write when he was going out with one his gfs. Anyway to my supries it was up and running again and most of it is about his new gf.

I just find it interesting to see what people are doing. Some of these people, you have only known for 2 years others you have known all your life. Even if you do see them what the write in their blog seems to be more to the truth then what they actually tell you.

It's funny when you think about it. Most people have a problem with telling someone close to you about a problem, yet they publish it to the whole wide world on a blog... What is the logic in that?

anyway i must be going.

By the way i finshed the Bega web site im jsut waiting on the last few pieces of content and that will be finished, and out of the way. I also picked up another contract today from a company called Sisfa.

I really must be going.

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Finished....

I have just finished the template for the Thistle Fabrication project. For those of you who don't develop web sites this is a good way to start building so you don't have to code the same things over and over. It is our aim to have this web site finished in about two weeks.

I have also been asked to write the copy for this web site, which will be abit of fun. I strated out yesterday, (while there were problems with the adsl connection) to work through what information they already have the best way to arrange the text.

Now that i have finished that i am now viewing the competitiors web sites, to see if i have missed anything and then i will, edit the text slightly to include some keywords which we will be marketing the web site for.

As for the previous post we have been in discussion with another web design company which we should be able to work closely with.

I am now going to try and complete the Bega web site which we need to have finished in the next week aswell. There really isn't much to do except for the services page, so it really shouldn't take to long.

Anyway must get back to work.

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A smooth transition, if only...

If you have read my last post you would have noticed about the small changes which we have done. However as i stated it would be a smooth transition, i couldn't have been more wrong.

With our other supplier completely stopping all work on our projects, leaving us with a bunch of source files to sift through to work out what goes where.

By tomorrow i intend to have it all under control. However this will mean that one project i will have to finish of. That means developing the web site, almost from scratch. At least the main template has been made so it will just be a matter of developing each page, using the navigational structure which we decided on in the initial planning stage.

If all goes well i hope to have that account finished by the end of the week.

On a lighter note, i have a cocktail party to go to on friday night for a davis cup. They say that the players are invited but the chances of them actually comming are fairly remote i would think. Anyway it should be a good night.

I picked up the pass and two guest passes from the club today, so there should be no problem getting up there during the davis cup.

As for company developments, i have lost contact with our bali office for over 4 days now so it is getting abit worrying, at least no money has exchanged hands yet so their will only be a loss of time which i should be able to make up.

As for finished projects, the monart web site has been finished and uploaded. It is completed up to them and their staff to maintain it using web fast which is our content management system (cms). We have also finished the first month of search engine optimisation and submission for monart and sun gard myaree but we don't expect to see any results this month.

We are on the home strech now for Lionel Yorke's web site which will be fantastic to get that finished and start promoting that on search engines. I need to have that finished in two weeks, as this is a project that has been draging on and on and it's about time we finished it.

Once i get through these next few weeks i will feel a huge wait lifted of my shoulders which will be great.

cya next time

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A time for change....

I think to myself, thank god i bought out that web design company in bali a few months ago.

My initial supplier of web services when we got to busy to handle the work ourself has just said they no longer want to do business with us because we are to fussy. "To fussy" i thought to my self, any way i'm not sure how being to fussy is a problem. The problem they had was that they would cut corners, not finish work to a high standard. So that is hardly my fault to getting them to redo it.

Anyway its all in the past know and the last two projects which they are doing for us they have been informed to finish them by tomorrow and email them to our office. That will be the last we have to do with that company.

So what do i think about all of this, well nothing really, it has given me a little added pressure but nothing that i can't handle, and since i was thinking ahead and purchased another web design firm, it should be a smooth transition.

I spent most of today and last night researching search engine placement and optimisation for our clients that have taken that service up with us. I have found that the amount of changes to the way search engines work is amazing. Anyway all of my research pointed to not only haveing well developed search engine friendly content but also the need for ibl's and obl's. What are these? you ask, well they are "in bound links" and "out bound links". So what i have done is created a link program which will allow people to put a link on my web site for the exchange of a link on their's. The program will also check to make sure they have placed a link on their web site and if they haven't there link will be deleted.

On a more personal note after picking up my guitar the other day and having a bit of a refresher, i have started to play, and am now learning "Classical Gas" which is a bit of fun. It takes my mind of work for a little while.

One thing that i didn't do today, was go to a conference on "Digital content and web services" which was held at the state library. Now sitting here and thinking about how much i learn't at the last conference i went to i wish i would have made the effort. I just felt that i wouldn't have enough time to handle all the problems i was having with my outsourcing partner.

Oh well until next time....

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Musical break

Well today, was the same as most mondays. There never seems to be much to do, for some reason. But i know that from tomorrow onwards it will be like a bull out of gates.

So anyway today, i recieved our latest award for the development of Richard Taylors web site, and also recieved some tax forms to fill out.

I decided to pick up my guitar and play it today. I found that after not playing if for so long it didn't take long to get the hang of it again. When playing the guitar it helps to think, and i was almost able to finish the article which i am writing for the paper.

Anyway have to go, tomorrow will be a busy day and there is no telling what will happen.

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Welcome

Welcome to the Able Net Design blog. I created this to document my business life, for future reference.

Ok so where to begin. Well about one year ago while still studying the art of web design, i started a company called Able Net Design. Although i still had 6 months of study to go before i was fully qualified i decided to start it and get the processes in order, so when i finished i would be able to move straight into it.

During that 6 months i really only handled about 2-3 contracts which wasn't really that fantastic however i wanted to spend time completeing my studies properly. Anyway once i had finished the it was down to work.


In the following 6 months i managed to build a grow Able Net Design into a fairly profitable business. So that about brings you up to speed with what is happening.

During the time that the company has been around the companies web site has changed almost about 7 times. I felt that being primarily a web design company it was wise to show what we had to offer as our portfolio was still growing. However now that we have a substantial portfolio the web site will stay like it is for a while, with just minor changes and additions made to it.

Any way that is all i have time for right now, i might be back later.

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