This is just a little plug for my web hosting company. I have used several web hosting companies in the past. However a couple of years ago, I was fed up with the price and poor customer service that I recieved from my hosts.

On recommendation from a friend, I checked out a company called Big Wet Fish. They are a local company, well, local to me, based in Northern Ireland. I do like to support local businesses where possible.

There prices for their various packages are very reasonable and I have 3 or 4 different products with them. There is one thing that really stands out for me though. Their customer service is second to none, it really is fantastic. On the rare occasion that I have had to contact them, any problems have been resolved incredibly quickly.

For more information or to get hosting from them, you can check them out at www.bigwetfish.co.uk or click in the advert on the left hand side of my blog.

No, not the Scissor Sisters album, but a new look for my blog. I have been looking at loads of themes recently, not specifically for this blog, but for a new site that I will be working on in the next few weeks. I came across Standard Theme a couple of months ago, and recently it has been recommended to me by a few people. So I bought it, and plan to use it on the new site, but before I start work on it, I wanted to get a feel for how to customise the theme, and this is the result.

I’m really happy with how it looks, and how easy it was to customise. I like the advertising space options, and will probably make more use of them in he future. I will probably tinker about with the look of the blog for a while, I need to resize some images to bring down the size a bit, and speed up the loading time.

I would definately recommend Standard Theme to anyone looking for a functional, straight forward, easy to modify theme, and it doesn’t break the bank either.

Check it out at www.standardtheme.com

Time for an update. 

Firstly I must apologise to those of you who actually visit my blog in a browser rather than via RSS. You guys will have noticed the theme changing quite a lot over the past few weeks. I had toyed with the idea of this becoming a photo-blog but  have changed my mind on that, and I am now looking for theme that isn’t predominately photo based, but is still simple. 

Hopefully within the coming weeks I will have 2 blogs, one will be this blog, a personal blog, and the other one will be a professional blog as part of a new photography website that will be coming hopefully in the near future. There may be a crossover in some of the content however. 

I have been doing photography for a few years now, and I love it. It really is my passion, and I finally am taking the steps, to actually set up my own business. Its something I have talked about for ages, and within the coming weeks that may be realised. So when the new website is all up and running, you will have to stop by, and subscribe to the new blog that will be there. 

Ragamuffin Soul is a blog that I have been reading for a number of years now. Carlos released his debut album today, and if the EP is anything to go by then it is well worth a listen. I bought it on iTunes this morning, it will probably be on repeat on my iPod for a while.

Buy it in iTunes