Archive for October 20th, 2009

Another part of my life is my wifes beloved restaurant, Clippies Fayre that she took over since her step dad passed away a few months ago.  Now run between my wife and her mum.

It has been open just over 2 years and has slowly but surely been drawing an ever growing crowd of satisfied customers, both local and farther afield.

The marketing side of things fell to me, both with my advertising experience and my web skills (really?), I figured I could put together something really special….and here it is.

Now it’s not exactly great, but a damn site better than my first attempt when it first opened.

Ok, so what does this have to do with XSite Pro 2? You may see where I am going with this ….

I decided to bite the bullet and stop faffing about with Dreamweaver (over complicated) and Kompozer (over simple) and buy XSite Pro 2 as I have heard rave reviews about it over the last year or so.

So, without further delay, I present to you my plan.
Over the next couple of weeks, I am going to completely CHANGE the look and feel of the Clippies Fayre website, re-design and re-implement from scratch.  And you will be able to watch it “as it happens” by visiting here.

Now I have to warn you now, I have NO experience with XSite Pro 2 at all, so this is completely from scratch in my spare time (it is now my PRIMARY goal to get a proper web presence and in turn more people into the restaurant).

Will it be a beautiful Swan, or a lame ugly duck?
We shall see over the next few weeks…

Wish me luck!
And if you happen to live in or near Fife, do pop in and try our food, you WONT get better - I promise you ;)

Paul.

I’ve let you all down…

Ok guys, I am SO sorry for the recent unfinished posts, empty promises and other stuff over the last month or so.

The truth of the matter is, I had to bite the bullet and fall back into the 9-5 game again (yes, completely against my plans).

But with various companies chasing me for cash and the wolves at the door, things were looking seriously bad.  Then a call out of the blue happened and the next thing is I landed an IT gig 10 minutes from my house with a decent salary, great team atmosphere – all in all an “absolute beauty” as they say here in Scotland ;)

So I’m now having to do this again part time, but fear not as the mid/long term plan remains the same, to bring you guys useful and interesting content and advise you as best I can with the myriad of pies I have my fingers in :)