By Paul Barrs

So you want to work from home running a website design business. Good for you. But before we begin this article, we have to ask and answer a few qualifying questions…

1. Do you know a little about Web Design?
2. Do you have some experience in the area?
3. Do you have your own website?
4. Have you at least done some work on ‘one’ other person’s website?

If you answered “no” to any of these questions, then...

By Paul Barrs

How much thought have you given to what you do first thin in the morning? Yes, I know, we all get up (some faster than others), often heading directly to the kitchen to grab that coffee or juice after a splash of water on the face. But that’s not what I’m talking about.

More so, I’m asking the question … what happens *after* that?

For some of us its prayer and reading time, others it’s hit the treadmill or pavement, for others...

By Paul Barrs


Imagine for a moment that you go to sleep tonight, dream for what seems live forever and when you wake, it is a whole year later. Or that for whatever reason you decided to turn of your computer and throw it out the window… waiting a full year before you bought another one.

What would the internet and web business world be like, how would it have changed? Would some things have also remained the same?

Recently I had the opportunity...

By Paul Barrs

Too many times over the past few years I have heard the following phrase: "Now I have a website I will .." (fill in the blank).

Usually the blank is filled with some hogwash that has been stuffed with almond jelly paste and tastes just as bad as it sounds. In many cases it's the website design company that has sugar coated the world of the web with glazed cherry so that you, the small business owner falls into mis-belief about what is real and...

by Paul Barrs

Often when I sit to write my morning articles, as I sip my coffee and look across the city-scape across from me, I wonder for a while… just what shall I write today. It’s not because I’m out of ideas or I can’t think of anything else to say, it’s more that there is so MUCH to say that I often don’t know where to start!

So perhaps as this month begins, it’s a good point to all take a moment out, site down with a favourite beverage and relax...