Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Hay fever time!

Hay fever seems to just get worse year on year. Its pain ,as it's at its worst when the weather is so nice! (and the weather is NICE)

Hogtronix HQ is nice and summery today, windows and doors wide open, and the dog passed out on the floor.

Busy getting various bits and pieces out of the way. Today has so far been a HTML newsletter day. Various different ones on the go, all with a nice summer theme!

Lots of other jobs left on the list, some we are looking forward to launching really soon (hopefully a good session of launches before my departure in the first few days of July!)

Various big projects that I've been involved in from the start are in progress, which is nice to see something through from start to finish. Good sense of a 'job well done'

Should be able to get loads done this week..if I can hold back the sneezes!

Wednesday, 19 May 2010

I'm 21..and feeling oooooold!

Thats right...im old now.

After a brilliant weekend and start to the week, today hasn't disappointed either. With a real variety of tasks, getting bits and pieces done and out of the way today seems to have flown by. It's been sunny most of the day, and the dog is enjoying having a light breeze flow in through to now, open door!

SEO is one of my priorities for this week, and today I've been busy doing a real mix of different SEO related jobs. I've been learning the process involved in inserting some clean URL code into .htaccess file of e commerce websites.. Good things to know for the future.

I've been writing and posting articles, some of which, have been quite different and interesting subjects. One of the most interesting was about Arturo Alvarez Lighting. I like to research a little into article subjects, so I'm prepared enough to write rich, quality content, instead of 'spammy' useless information.

So at Hogtronix...you really do learn something everyday!

Friday, 14 May 2010

Next time I'll post...I'll be 21...

Thats right...I'm in my last few days of being 20. Bit of a weird thought!

On 'slight' reflection of the past 12 months, it's been great! This time last year..I knew the smallest fraction of what I know now (website stuff that is(i was already pretty savvy on everything else))

I realised this morning, how fast this year has gone. I can remember so clearly when I first started at Hogtronix and that was nearly a year ago! <
It's a Friday and the sun is shining! Hopefully the weather will hold for the weekend! Plus...as it's a Friday..I'm hopeful the Hogtronix MD will crack open some 'phat Westwood style' beats this afternoon!

Monday, 10 May 2010

The World Cup

Thats right...The World Cup is nearly upon us! I've spent some time today preparing some new projects involving various new advertising campaigns for the world cup! Nice and exciting stuff that we (obviously) don't get to do very often!

Its been a day full of a real variety of work, from updates to website, some deep php code research, jquery testing and general email etc. It's kept the day run smooth, and it seems to have flown by! I've only just looked up to reaslise it's past 5 already!

Quite enjoyed the time spent looking at php code today. Some quite new SEO friendly techniques that I hope to engrave into the back of my head by the time I leave!

Right..time to go. Dinner time ;)

Friday, 7 May 2010

Election Results

Thats right...at the moment, all of those politicians are busy deciding who's going to be allowed to run the country. Obviously it's interesting....but it's starting to get frustrating to hear on the radio!

It's been a strange day covering a range of different things. Making changes to a big project we launched has been the major thing on my list! It's nice to be ending the week knowing that we've accomplished something so big!

Various other projects literally hanging on the edge of completion, and some real advances with a 'little' in-house project! << this one you really need to watch out for!

Other than that...business as usual!

Tuesday, 4 May 2010

Hello May!

Thats right...Mays here. After a nice long weekend, we're back in the office working hard! Various big projects still on the go, with some new work in, and big advances in some of our largest projects!

Today, after a few minor 'first thing in the morning' troubles, we've been busy busy bee's. I've been trawling through some new SEO work as well as writing some articles for one of our largest ongoing SEO clients.

Early this afternoon I got the opportunity to review a potential new customer website and apply most of my SEO knowledge to writing a report on where improvements can be made (only for SEO really..with some minor coding changes). This is one of the first times I have written a detailed report like this, which I really enjoyed! It's good practice for any re-skin or SEO project, just to get to understand what you are working with.

All good skills that I'm noticing within my work...and skills that I have obviously picked up through working with some pro's!