Another 12 months

I have just realised I have not posted any thing since last year - Since the death of Steve Jobs - That year went quick - glad too... my worst year in over 26 years of business. I did pickup some new clients - but business does not really seem to be picking up yet. Four years now we have been in this recession.

Read the news to day - best start learning Mandarin. see this article

Sad Day... Death of a Salesman - Steve jobs sold the vision that computers are there to help us... through good design and function. His legacy lives on in its users.

Updated website

I have just redesigned and upgraded Worcester Apple website to joomla 1.7. I am working on a Wordpress and drupal version to increase my general knowledge of CMS based websites. I will then be offering these to my clients for the same price as a static based site. Hopefully this will help my clients and my business in this current downturn.

Slow to Blog

It does not seem like nearly 12 months since I last blogged. Business has been tough - In our industry we tend to be the first to get cut in recession but the first to come out. Lets hope it's not long now. I have run a joomla CMS management course recently for a Middle School and I am going to be running 3 day CS5 course next week - could it just be a flash in the pan. Lets wait and see!

Adobe CS5

I am now getting my head around the major improvements to Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and more importantly from a designers point of view Flash Catalyst. Reminds me of an interactive version of Quark I once ran courses in QuarkImedia.

InDesign CS5

Have just run the first of The New CS5 courses in InDesign, was always a great app now an excellent app with the ability to output interactive files (Remember Quarkimedia?) for the web as Flash and SWF - even has page turning.

Courses in Adobe CS5

Terry Kendrick will be running New Courses and Update Courses in Adobe CS5 - Design applications - InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Web Development applications - Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash