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virginblue twitter

Crikey’s Plane Talking has a piece about Virgin Blues tweeting of $9 fares in celebration of their 9th birthday, media release and twitter feed.

As Ben Sandilands rightly (Plane Talking author) comments, whilst this is great for both Virgin and their potential customers, it does exclude a sizable portion of the population from participation, which is the problem.

As more and more corporation’s services are delivered online in an attempt to look all web2.0 and maximise profits, this technocratic illuminato sees the vast digitally unwashed masses once again clammering at the gate to get in.

Will Code For $$

Well, I had better do it sooner or later and convert this site across to my freelance site, this will save me having to blog content that has either or all of the below:

1. Candor
2. Urgency
3. Timeliness
4. Pithiness
5. Controversy

as per good old Seth Godin pointed out and referenced at Web Pages That Suck

And as you may not have realised, I’m more about designing sites then blogging about rubbish. You can though come and see what I’m artistically up to over at Humble Voice.

So shortly I’ll sit down with pencil and paper and start to rough out the site, so I can start getting some design gigs.

For anyone who arrives here before I finalise the site, I hand code sites using XHTML, CSS, PHP and javascript, with a focus on usability and Search Engine Optimistation. I can also be hired for design of Logos and Graphic content, including Flash content and animations.

Pretty slack of a web designer to use a template for their blog, but hey, I’ve hated the default themes that come packaged with Content Management Systems for ages.

So rather then wait for some spare time between life, dronework and study to design the blog I thought I’d just start it and find a nice design that also had valid CSS and XHTML. (I’m a code designer, wysisyg is for the weak)

So many thanks to the designer Sam.

links to the design are in the footer. (ie scroll down)