I emailed Phil about stuff and then he rang me whilst he was on the train on the way home from work, and we had a chat. I find it quite hard to talk about ideas on the phone as it?s very impersonal and I often forget important stuff, and so I said that I could pop down to Bognor one weekend and we can have a good chat about ideas for setting up a business, and then taking over the world. In response to my previous post I suggested that I could come down this weekend, and without any hesitation Phil said that I should. Life should always be this easy and we should be able to make on the spot decisions without having to look in our diaries for a free date, but that is not often the case.
Sometimes I think that we psychologically make other committments so that we don?t have time to try new things or take take risks. It?s a lot easier to think that you can?t do something because you don?t have the time, instead of realising you don?t try things because you could fail.
A while back when I was more motivated I actually did a bit of research into companies that specialised in design of graphics and logos but yet again nothing came of it. I did see quite a few sites that I respected and also quite a lot that were crap and a waste of money, and what I will do befre friday is review these and see if there is somewhere in the market that can accomodate me. If I can?t bring anything new to the equation then it?s not worth doing but if I can actaully bring something meaningful to fruition, then I will once again be a happy man.
I believe the best course of action will be to go down on Friday, have a few drinks, get some brainstorming going, and have a very frank discussion of what this poposed business venture will entail, and then on the Saturday actually delve a bit deeper into whatever came up.
Does it sound like a good idea?? I hope so, and even if nothing happens [me being negative again] at least I?ll be able to check out Freespurge Mansions.
Watch this space.
It?s a very good idea. I?ll be home by 17:30 on Friday (finish early dontcha know) so any time after then my friend.
And I totally agree with you on the making appointments bit. I?m always filling my time with meaningless shite to avoid the stuff I really want to do but am afraid it?ll be too hard.
Some useful design blogs/sites and a podcast.
http://csszengarden.com/
http://alistapart.com/
http://hicksdesign.co.uk/
http://web20show.com/articles/2006/02/16/web-2-0-show-episode-10-dan-cederholm
You should research lots of new ?web 2.0? web sites/apps as they are really pushing a certain style of design (very simple/clean).
Good luck mate.
Sounds interesting. Good luck.
Phil ? I?ll give you a call when I?m near. Can you email me your new house number and postcode so Iknow where to find you? Cheers
Chris ? Cheers for those links. I?ve got a feeling we?ll be concentrating on actual design of graphics etc, and less on web design. Well that?s what I think at the moment.
Alecya ? cheers me dears