Conspiracy theory?
May 28th, 2007With the recent release of the Adobe CS3 suite of products, I can’t help but be amazed exactly how many illegal copies of the software and serial number generators there are floating about out there already. It seems to me to be beyond hacking endeavour to manage to crack the code sequences which Adobe use as serial numbers, never mind activation codes.
I’ve suspected for a while that Adobe (and Macromedia as they were) are possibly somewhat responsible for these leaks of information or if not, they certainly don’t seem to be doing much to deter the hackers and crackers in the web design community. For a piece of software to become an industry standard, which Adobe products such as Dreamweaver, Flash and Photoshop have become, it needs to be adopted by developers, many of whom are either unable or unwilling to part with £350 per item of software. Allowing or ignoring the proliferation of cracked software or serial number generator programs out there certainly would achieve such an end goal.
With developers using the software en masse, the companies which employ these developers will invest in the product. At £350 a head, it’s easy to see how Adobe pulls in it’s money from the corporates. One thing which always amazes me though is that some of the most amazing video games I’ve ever played only cost £29.99 yet surely as much or more development has gone into them than goes into Dreamweaver. I mean, I’m no expert, but surely rendering a vast 3D world which you can interact with is surely more complex from a programming perspective than Dreamweaver. No?
Summer Special Offer - 5 page web design for £400
May 27th, 2007Every so often, I throw in a special offer. This month it’s 5 pages of web design for £400. You’ll be unlikely to find a better offer elsewhere. This offer includes:-
- 5 static web pages (Non-ecommerce and no dynamic functionality. Brochureware pages only)
- Domain name registration and 1 years hosting.
- Setup of email accounts @yourdomain.com
I often run this offer on eBay and it attracts a fair bit of interest. This is the first time I’ve run it direct from the website. In fact, this offer has been an astonishing success on eBay, generating a fair amount of income for me.
The offer will last for the remainder of May and all of June.
If you are interested, please contact me using the contact form, selecting ‘Web design special offer’ in the ‘How can Bluekazoo help you?’ field.
Definitions:
Ecommerce – a site where an online shopping cart is used for customers to browse, order and pay for items or electronic downloads online and have them delivered either to their computer or home.
Dynamic – a site where some or all of the information on the site is served up ‘dynamically’ from a database using some sort of server side programming such as PHP or ASP and a database such as MySQL.
Bluekazoo launches Kitchen-Confidential
May 26th, 2007I’ve just put live the new website for
The site is bold and colourful and the main colour scheme of the site was extracted from the image of the blue bowl of Chilis on the homepage. It gives the site a warm feel.
The site was built using handcoded XHTML and
It was a pleasure to work with Jane and I wish here the best in her new venture. You never know, I may well be giving her a shout for some cookery lessons of my own albeit I like to think of myself as reasonably accomplished in the kitchen.
Jane was kind enough to provide some excellent feedback on the site.
“Mark, Thank you so much for my web site. I am very pleased with it and have had good feedback from friends who have visited the site. Best Wishes, Jane.â€
The site’s web address is http://www.kitchen-confidential.co.uk (opens in a new window).
New web site launched
May 20th, 2007Regular customers of Bluekazoo or myself (after all, there’s no difference is there?) will notice that I’ve redesigned the site in a funky new style. Obviously it’s a fairly straightforward design. With a tree. The old site didn’t have a tree as far as I can remember so it’s a refreshing change.
The site is built using Wordpress, basically because I wanted to be able to update the site on the go and wanted a blog feel. The previous Bluekazoo site was (apart from being very blue) possibly slightly more corporate than I would have liked, hence the more informal nature of the new design.
I suppose the site is not only meant to be about the web design side of things. If anything, that would be a waste of a nice design. I really want to talk about other matters, life and laughs, revenue streams I’ve been thinking about and general internet related stuff. There will also be a fairly sizeable amount of web accessibility content as well.
I hope you like it. Feel free to let me know your thoughts. Sometimes it’s hard to see the wood for the trees when you are too close to smell the coffee, etc etc, clichés ad infinitum.
