What can happen to your photos online

This family sent their photo as a Christmas card to friends and posted it on a blog.

Next thing a friend told them the picture was on a poster in a Czechoslovakia... they now watermark any images they post online.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8094420.stm

Jac y Do Lettings and Property Management

Jac y Do are a lettings and property management company based in west Wales in Aberporth.

Have a look at their new website at www.jacydo.com and if you're looking for somewhere to rent, or if you're looking for someone to manage your rental property (or properties), then drop Jac y Do a line.

What is going on in west Wales

There is a great new website just been launched called 'Whatever the weather Wales' http://www.whatevertheweatherwales.co.uk/.

You can see what's on in the west Wales (lower Teifi Valley estuary) area and even book online. What a great idea and there are also plans to make the service available for mobile phones so anyone can see what's happening and book no matter where they are.

The site is aimed at tourists and locals who want an easy to use website to preview and book events and activities.

New site for Decorend

Here's a recently published new site for Decorend with information about their amazing decorative concrete products www.decorend.co.uk.

It really is quite astonishing what can be achieved with some careful thought and artful finishing. The effects are just like real stone but the product is concrete.

What do you think?

BBC Weather Site Gets Updated

Such a great way to display the useful and regularly updated weather information provided by the Met Office.

Now the weather site is quickly made relevant by changing as soon as you put in your location as either a postal code or town name.

Some of the forecasts and weather observations can be embedded into your own site or blog...

Yield Build - build your advertising revenue

I came across this service today and it seems rather interesting.

YieldBuild gives you one place to manage multiple advertising accounts and also tests various formats of the different ads to see which are the most effective.

Sounds good doesn't it?

Is anyone using it and care to comment?

Too Busy To Blog

It has been ages since I last posted to my blog and for that I apologise to those who have dropped by to read it.

As of January 2009 I celebrated 10 years of designing and building websites.

I also passed the 10 year milestone of putting audio and video online.

So much has changed since we started out using Dreamweaver version 1 to code and manage websites.

I wonder which is the most influencial site of the last 10 years? Contenders must include the BBC, Google, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Amazon and Wikipedia to mention a few household names.

I would say the best is Google because no-one else has achieved so much in terms of easy access to information - just my humble opinion of course.

As for favourite software it would have to be Photoshop, Dreamweaver and since converting to Macs I've fallen for Garageband. Final Cut is also rather splendid.

Online and offline is becoming an increasingly blurred line with many of my friends and colleagues having as much Internet access at home as they do at work.

Whatever next? 10 more years of web design hopefully...