What better way to make a fresh start in the new year than to freshen up my website. I have been so busy with clients that I haven’t had a chance to do it in a while, but I set aside the afternoon today and created a new Portfolio page to highlight some of my [...] Read More
Well, I’ve kicked the tires on all 3 online accounting/invoicing systems, and the winner for me is FreshBooks. There are several reasons (detailed below) but the main thing is that FreshBooks did everything it advertised, effortlessly. Furthermore, my clients seemed to like what they saw as well: two of them asked me for my opinion [...] Read More
The latest launch in my increasingly long string of Squarespace websites is www.vandervord.com – a wedding photography website. In this case, the client already had a website that was built years ago, and it really needed a fresh look. But the real frustration for the client was having to go through a middle-man to update [...] Read More
Just a little update on my online accounting service trials. So far, I have been quite pleased with Freshbooks, but today I came across a huge hurdle when it comes to LessAccounting: I cannot create invoices on a Mac. Actually, that’s not entirely true: I can create blank invoices, but I can’t add any invoice [...] Read More
I’m fed up of managing my accounts in Excel spreadsheets and creating invoices in Pages, so I thought I would have a look at some of the online accounting and invoicing tools available. The extra benefit of managing this online is that I will be able to access all my accounting info from anywhere and [...] Read More
Despite appearances, I have not fallen off the face of the earth. I have just had an incredibly busy few months, juggling web consulting projects while at the same time working on getting my photography career back up & running after a 12-year hiatus. I’ve also published a book! Before I knew it, months had [...] Read More
I’ve decided to see if I can make it without biting the bullet and shelling out for MS Office for my business. So over the past few months I have been trying 4 alternative products: Apple’s iWork, ThinkFree Premium, openoffice.org and NeoOffice. They all offer more or less the same tools as the standard Microsoft [...] Read More
After 2 years at NESTA, I decided it was time for me to move on to new challenges. I have decided to take the plunge and go freelance, in hopes of being able to share my experience and skills with a wider variety of organisations. I am looking forward to the accelerated learning experience this [...] Read More