Those who know me will know that aside from being very passionate about my profession, I am prone to rant (the clue is in my surname Durrant), especially when something that could potentially damage my industry rears its ugly, badly thought out, head.

Most rants tend to be directed at cowboy web design companies [...]

This month I did the unthinkable, I said yes to everyone. Why did I do it? Is it because I am desperate for work? Not really. Is it because I am a yes person and I am simply unable to say no to things? No, I am saying no, I have no issue [...]

As 2010 draws to a close, I feel I should take a look at, not only what I set out to do at the start of the year, but also look at things that I have had to overcome too.

What I set out to do:

1. Keep myself financially sound
Almost there on [...]

So this topic tends to spark quite a lot of controversy among pretty much all businesses. In some businesses it is deemed fairly acceptable for the customer to get their way. I believe, and I am not alone in this, that in the web design world we should learn to put our foot down [...]

As a kind of follow on to the last blog entry about being passionate about your work I thought that I would talk about the other side of loving what you do. The inability to step away from it.

Now don’t get me wrong (insert song into head now) I don’t do this every [...]

I am always blown away when I watch Gary Veynerchuk talk about his businesses. Fact. His love of what he does is very inspiring. His excitement and passion means that he is a very likeable personality. Set aside the bad language (naughty, naughty Gary), he has a real love of his work and it’s [...]

One thing I have noticed over the past few months of starting up WildFire is that I seem to have more and more to do in what seems to be less and less time. I find myself waking up early to work, working for most of the day; designing, writing, networking and [...]

This is going to be quite a meaty post…

The past month has been filled up with getting everything in motion to start up WildFire Digital Media, everything from reading what felt like War and Peace several times over on the business link website and meeting with Blue Orchid, to form filling for [...]