Website design and development
Time for another site launch, this one a redesign for one of my longest standing clients.
I designed the first website for Financial Education Professionals in 2003, when it was a two-person operation run from a home office.
Nowadays, FEP has an office just off Circular Quay in Sydney, with a permanent staff of seven and a team of part-time financial trainers working throughout Australia and South East Asia. And a new website.
I need a break.
I know this because my Reading List is getting unfeasibly long, which means I haven’t had ‘spare’ time to read.
If you’re a web designer or developer and you’re up for some self-directed professional development reading, the following list should prove fruitful.
Title: HTML5 & CSS3 for the Real World
Author: Alexis Goldstein, Louis Lazaris & Estelle Weyl
Publisher: SitePoint
Publication date: May 2011
Link: http://www.sitepoint.com/books/htmlcss1/
I’ve been able to launch another new client site, this one for Australian writer Elisabeth Holdsworth.
Elisabeth is an essayist and reviewer who has just published her first novel, Those Who Come After.
The book is based on and extrapolated from Elisabeth’s own experiences, which she previously covered in an essay that won the inaugural Calibre Prize in 2007.
It might sound like overkill – writing a novel based on your own essay about your own upbringing – but Elisabeth’s is quite a story.
I’ve long been an active proponent of both caring about what you do and doing what you care about.
One way I have of showing this is to provide pro bono web services to deserving clients.
I consider myself fortunate that this can range from websites for local community groups with which I’m involved, like scouts, soccer and nippers, through to a couple of websites for Helen Caldicott, probably the world’s foremost anti-nuclear campaigner and an Australian, to boot.
