Make Life Easy is an language and administrative services company based in the Dordogne area of France, formed to help English speakers settle in by taking care of things like school registrations and legal appointments. If you ever contemplate retiring to the sun, please get in touch with Nathalie at MLE!
Self Publish or Perish
If any of you are dedicated bookworms, or if you writing is your thing, you might like to visit Shortbread Stories, an online community of short story readers and writers. It was was founded by author Robin Pilcher and bookseller William Thomson to develop a concept for publishing short stories. One of their latest ideas is [...]
WordUp Glasgow 2012
Saturday 4 February saw WPScotland’s second one day WordPress conference take place in Glasgow – the first of it’s kind in the city. I learned more in a day than I have in the last year, which is why I love these events so much. However, rather than document all the happenings of the day [...]
New WordPress evening classes
Digital My Way today launched a new series of evening classes for WordPress beginners. Find My Way is an intensive practical course which will give students the knowledge required to run their own WordPress site.
Pentland Corporate Funding Consultants
Pentland Corporate Funding Consultants is a new company based in Edinburgh which provides consultancy services to Small and Medium Enterprises looking to secure finance in order to expand. This was a relatively straightforward design and build with a few static pages and no blog (for now). I plumped for Productum from Woothemes to provide the [...]
Blacknight WordUp Edinburgh 2011
Saturday 22 October was the culmination of ten months of hard work and exciting progress for Taryn and I at WPScotland. We held our first one-day unconference in Edinburgh, bringing together the country’s top WordPress talent and eager enthusiasts. This is how it went.
Relaunching the Sugarcraft School
I was asked by the guys at Webzorb to help them build a WordPress site for one of their clients, the Paul Bradford Sugarcraft School. As soon as I realised that the client made cakes I was hooked! This is a classic tale of why WordPress is successful: the company had been using a bespoke [...]
Call Kaye – starting your own business
I was recently invited to appear on BBC Radio Scotland’s Call Kaye programme to discuss the highs and lows of starting your own business. It was a great experience to chat with some very experienced business people, and also to have an opportunity to plug my work to a national audience – let’s hope it helps to tackle some of the issues we discussed.
New life for Xplore Alba
Around 5 years ago I decided to start a travel and outdoor activities blog that would both record what I did in the outdoors and promote the parts of Scotland I visited. After a lot of faffing around I started it on WordPress.com – and then promptly did nothing with it. Not even one post. [...]
Rationalising CSCUK
As part of the UK Government’s web rationalisation plan, DFID had to move many sites it funded onto the dfid.gov.uk domain. The Commonwealth Scholarships Commission in the United Kingdom (CSCUK) is a Non Departmental Public Body (Quango if you’re a journalist) funded by DFID, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, The Department for Business, Innovation and [...]
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