Today’s task was a bit of web design. I’d sketched an idea out on paper and I wanted to do a mock up in photoshop. That’s where the problems started. I’m not that great at photoshop and it also quickly became apparent that the design looks rubbish (at least with my present skills of replicating [...]

All websites seem to have Terms & Conditions and Privacy statements these days so mynewreg.com won’t be any different. Yesterday I spent the day creating a first draft of what I want mine to say before eventually getting the lawyers to have a look. Simon, one of the SIE Regional Business Advisors, thought that it’s [...]

I’ve been working on it off an on for a while but I’ve eventually got round to finishing the johnbain.org homepage. It’s obvious to me at least that I’m not very good at web design but it’s a work in progress and we all need to start somewhere. TBH I’ll probably be the only one [...]

So here we go, my first ever post on a blog. Like it says on the about page I set this blog up as much for myself as anyone else. Hopefully some of what I write will be useful for other people starting up their own business. It certainly feels like a daunting journey! So [...]