About 3 months ago we made the switch to WHMCS as our billing system. It is heralded as one of the best billing systems for web professionals, with a particular emphasis on web hosting. As a company that’s main form of business is designing and developing websites, but does some hosting, we wondered if this [...]
Continue Reading...It seems that with inflation growing and allegedly set to rise dramatically over the next financial year along with VAT at an all time high, many companies are increasing their rates in an effort to make ends meet. Our overheads including costs for phone, hosting and internet services have gone up considerably over the last [...]
Continue Reading...We were recently interview by Advanced Photoshop Magazine for an article about creative self promotion. The article talks about various creative ways of promoting your work including our chilli sauce which we sent out to many people including the editors at Imagine Publishing. There is a nice big photo of our sauce in the article [...]
Continue Reading...Every web designer that I know (and I know quite a few) is frequently asked “how much does a website cost?”. The question is a complicated one since it depends on many factors. I like the analogous question “how much does a car cost?”. The answer depends on whether the vehicle you want is a [...]
Continue Reading...Wow. We have literally been rushed off our feet the last month or so. At one point, we even had a sign on our website telling visitors that we were no longer taking on work! Drastic action indeed. Luckily though we have have made some major progress with our existing workload as well as taking [...]
Continue Reading...Last Thursday was a very stressful day for many web designers in the UK, and we were no exception. In fact, I would argue that we had a worst time than most. Bluesquare, based in Maidenhead, is one of the UK’s largest datacenters. For those that don’t know a datacenter is a large complex of [...]
Continue Reading...Recently we sent out about 100 bottles of hot chilli sauce to our existing clients as well some to potential clients we would like to work with. Feedback has been very positive and it has also generated some new work which is never a bad thing. As well as tasting lovely, each bottle has a [...]
Continue Reading...We have just launched a new site for our clients, www.familidrugsupport.com. The redesign holds a special importance to our company as it was in fact the first commercial website built by founder of Voodoochilli, Harry O’Connor way back in 2003. For years he has wanted to redesign the site encompassing a more up to date [...]
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