After many months of development, I am glad to say that www.asht.info has finally launched.

Who are ASHT?

The Anglo Sikh Heritage Trail is a project of the Maharajah Duleep Singh Centenary Trust. The Trust was first established in 1993, the centenary year of the death of Maharajah Duleep Singh, with the primary objective of highlighting and promoting Anglo Sikh heritage. Since then it has engaged in a series of initiatives, including the Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms exhibition in collaboration with the V&A, the annual Portrait of Courage lecture at the Imperial War Museum and the Jawans to Generals exhibition in collaboration with English Heritage. Other projects have included the commissioning of a bronze statue of Maharajah Duleep Singh at Thetford; the first major piece of Sikh art outside India, as well as two highly successful festivals of Anglo Sikh heritage.

The site has a user friendly CMS, newsletter system as well as various ways for the community to contribute. The site was built using PHP/Codeigniter framework with a MySQL database. Client side development resulted in clean CSS/HTML markup as well as the creation of database driven flash elements. Site wide search makes use of Google’s Custom Search.

Visit ASHT

I have finally managed it, countless form filling and negotiation and I have now in my hand the keys to the new office.

It’s kind of exciting since I have never rented my own offices. I wasn’t looking forward to working all alone but fortunately that may no longer be the case with a recent addition to the team. More on that later.

In summary… new office, new member of staff, healthy project book and the site being considered as one of the best in 2007… I think 2008 is off to a great start.

ONWARDS AND UPWARDS!

Well would you adam and eve it, the bods at cssmania placed my site alongside 9 others as one of the top 10 sites of 2007.

Sweeeeeeeeet!

Yet again, I promised to keep this Blog updated… failed miserably

Due to the usual bout of way too much work and general goings-on I haven’t had the energy to write anything.

Here is an update on all things me. You may have already noticed that I am looking to expand. Glad to say that I have forged working relationships with local (and not so local) development bods, designers, copywriters and people who a ting or two about marketing/seo.

What a relief.

In addition to this, I have “almost” acquired an office. Jeez, getting offices is like bloomin difficult. It was easier getting a mortgage! So hopefully within the next few weeks I will be moving into new digs which will be cool, if not a bit weird, and a bit sad. Used to having no morning journey to make and having lunch made for me by my good wife.

As for projects, within the past 3 weeks have managed to launch 2 and a half sites. (the usual round of tweaks, amendments and can you justs).

www.nen.gov.uk (in their own words)

“The NEN is the UK collaborative network for education, providing schools with a safe, secure and reliable learning environment and direct access to a growing range of online services and content.” My role was as PHP/Database developer working on behalf of Gooii Limited providing them with a CMS and integrating supplied CSS templates.

More about the other sites later.

My Blog has been quiet, OK… very quiet. I have tried my darndest to find time (and energy) to write BUT I have failed. I have happy reasons for that. I have been amazingly busy trying to juggle work and all round general company growth. So much so that I am now recruiting permanent staff and looking for offices.

Its time to move on from my home office, I need to feel like I am progressing. Getting ever nearer to whatever it is we all work towards… which to this day I still don’t know what that is.

If you have any of the following skills and are based in Leicester then get in touch.

• Print / Web Design
• Marketing / Strategic planning / Sales
• SEO
• Web Development (esp. ASP.Net/C# and PHP)

Looking for freelancers, local companies and job hunters. (no agencies)