Two days to go Euro2008

Its nearly here! You can't ignore it with so much coverage about a lack of national interest, favourite players and the inevitable question "Who are you going to support?" Surveylab launched a quick survey to capture feedback from a range of consumers and we've been lucky enough to feature on one or two radio shows. Number of interesting things came up, notably that 40% of British men and 57% of women don’t care about Euro 2008 but that UK productivity may benefit with very few taking time off to watch the games. If you would like more info, drop me a line.
With the Surveylab website finally launched and 'settling in', another site was launched today - Holt Carpentry.



Steve Holt is a carpenter providing a range of custom design services in the Sidcup and SE London. Please visit his site and have a look around.

June means footballl?

Start of June and as a May blog post, um, didnt happen, here is the June post nice and early! As avid regular readers of my blog clamouring for a new post may have guessed, May proved to be very busy.
The new Surveylab website is finally launched, at last. After many versions, revisions and 'back to the drawing board' moments, after approximately 15 months a design was agreed on between myself and Dan and was launched on Friday. The last site was (and looked) very 2003-4, and although there are one or two tweaks and styling issues to resolve, the new site presents a fresh, clean and 2008 face to Surveylab.


New websites are in production, (CCMC, CCA, Holt Carpentry, Self Storage 4U) and marketing projects in hand for Self Storage and Kingsgate Recruitment. Watch this space. May was busy as ever for Surveylab, project work coming along well and keeping our heads down, especially when selfish Dan headed off for a week's holiday.
Added to which the BT broadband is barely sorted. A seamingly reliable connection has apparently been made, but speed still slow and I'm not totally convinced its been sorted. Week 9 or 10 for final resolution? /sigh.

Fullscope website *will* be updated this summer - lots to update and sort out. Watch this space.

Broadband Woes

Been a frustrating few weeks. After experiencing extended downtimes, I initially pointed fingers at my old ISP Freedom 2 Surf. Contacting tech support, I eventually had a BT engineer round who fixed an internal problem and found wet connections on my road. Wasn't overly impressed, especially when service went down again for 3 days over Easter, their service pages weren't updated and I generally felt like an unwanted customer. So much for 3-4years as a loyal customer. Si I've switched to IDnet which seems just fine although I clearly have hardware issues somewhere along the road casuing synch problems. Joy. Lets hope round2 of BT work will help... if/when they turn up!

On a more positive note, the Emma Flavell Photography and Excellence & Tradition websites are live and doing well.



Ashwood Office Interiors have rebranded and their website has been republished. Surveylab is busy as ever with a recent 'new' addition to the team and things are developing well. Fullscope work has kept me tied to the computer recently, lots of end-of-year requests and two websites soon to be built for an American company... watch this space.

A new macbook pro has been purchased and its a fantastic tool. VMWare Fusion created a fully fledged Windows session opening up possibilities to work in both operating systems on the same machine. Expensive yes, but sooo shiny.
Once again, this post is light on the 'fun' links so apologies for that, lets hope I can pull some more interesting bits togther for the next one.

March(ing) on

Well into March and Fullscope.co.uk is still awaiting an overhaul. Both Surveylab and Fullscope are coming along well. Two new sites launched from Fullscope this month. Excellence & Tradition Limited is Sophie Hermine Bertrand's business which sources exquisite crafted items of superior quality for the more discerning purchaser. Emma Flavell Photography went live this week. Emma specialises in contemporary photographic services, specifically portraiture, weddings, portfolio and corporate imagery.





Please visit both these sites and have a good look around.

Not many links harvested this month. Been a case of getting my head down and cracking on. Three new business sites are in production - for Surveylab, and two US sites for Customer Care Measurement and Consulting and for the Customer Care Alliance. Watch this space! Bye for now.

Busy February

After January sped by, February is proving extremely busy with Surveylab and Fullscope. Need a holiday, /poke Dan. Somewhere hot, cheap and probably nowhere near a computer.... Falmouth! Wild. Several Surveylab projects underway - client work busy and we've a deadline for the new company site to be in place early March.

Using a template from Nonsuch Rotary, The Rotary Club of Norwich Thorpe St Andrew launched their new site this month. A Fullscope site built from scratch was also launched last week, HouseHusbandServices.co.uk, is Jay Harris' domestic cleaning services business based in Epsom, Surrey. Still in its initial stage, we've more content to apply and more images to gather. Please take a look. Two other sites in development are EmmaFlavell.co.uk - a photographers portfolio site specialising in wedding, portfolio and portrait photography, and Excellence & Tradition, a business sourcing traditional and crafted products from the continent, especially France. Both in development. Check back soon. A bid is out to help with an American website, will see how that develops.

All very busy at the moment as you can see, please feel free to drop me an email via the fullscope.co.uk website.

Busy 2008

Another long overdue post. Fullscope website is still on the 'to-do' list but both Surveylab commitments and freelance work is keeping me very busy.
Bridge To Health website has been designed and launched, in fact a number of updates to the portfolio are long overdue. Bridge To Health is an osteopathic practice in Uxbridge, and I'm pleased with the website and brand. Work is continuing in terms of search engine optimisation. The Local Bike Company (Wolverhampton) website is awaiting content prior to completion and launch and DNH Construction (Plymouth) is in a similar position too. Clearly everyone else is as busy as me! The portfolio pages are likely to updated with the new site relaunch.
In terms of links, I think the stand out link is Zune Journey... an amazing flash website. A nice news blog from GoSquared is nice to keep up with technology and things going on (mostly stateside). Visit Papervision3D for a virtual sea scape, just give it a few moments to load - very nice. CSS design bits and inspiration at CSSJuice will prove a good visit I'm sure and a page of Unfortunate Logo's is worth a look in at CoolzOr. Always engaging and right on the sharp end, visit Banksy's website and have a real good look around. More on the random side of things this Swedish site takes words you type in and then gets each word from other songs and plays them back to you - titled "Let Them Sing It For You". Some cool tshirt designs and printing at Grafiknoise.

Leaves on the line blah blah... better late than never

August was the last post, nearly 2 months have flown by. Both fullscope and Surveylab committments have increased keeping me very busy... September and October especially.
The Surveylab website is due a facelift, and with a growing number of clients we're being kept very busy. Fullscope is ticking along well with some nice client projects fitting alongside Surveylab work.
Just a short post, squeezed in before I head to Australia and New Zealand for a few weeks... back sometime end of November.