Hello everyone, I forgot to mention this in the previous post so here it is. I done my first video tutorial over the period of the contest which you can go to view here or you can simply click play below.
I should hopefully have more and more of these videos over the coming weeks. If you’d like anything specific be sure to let me know by posting a comment 
Kindest regards,
James
So it’s been more than two weeks since the beginning of the contest and it’s been great to host. But during that time, a lot of stuff has been happening both away and at my computer. Firstly, the biggest thing i’d like to mention is that I now have a job freelancing for Nation1, a company I went for an interview for on the 18th. The manager Andrew introduced me around the company meeting some various workers. We spoke about how I would effect the company and how I would be taking on the design sides of things from now on.
It was only before I went to Kent that I got my first brief through to work on, so I should have more on that very soon!
Away from the computer. Were will I start? I’ve been doing so many things lately. Over the September weekend, I took a trip down to Kent to meet some girls I met on holiday this year. We went down with her cousin Ian who is one of my good mates. It was amazing! We went into Maidstone for a night out in the town which was okay, nothing like Glasgow! But overall it was a great laugh and great to see the girls again. I have also started back university, which is really exciting for me because this year I can choose to stay on for a third year and do Applied Graphics, which I am hoping to pursue a career in at the end of it.
Anyways, that’s about it. Remember to subscribe to the RSS feed
Regards,
James
Hello everyone, I want to start by apologizing for the very late announcements. I was away in Kent while the contest finished and I’ve had problems with my Macbook. But now, everything is set. The winners have been picked at random, so shall we go ahead and announce our winners :D?
{Please dismiss my email address in the randomiser, I like to have copies of the posts on Flockey}
Okay, so lets start with Winner 3. This was to win two advertisement banners by my good friend Adam, free Wordpress integration by Tomos Wyn and last but not least a free business card, courtesy of Flockey.com.
I am pleased to announce, that the winner of this prize is…
Jasar. Well done Jasar!
Winner 2 could have won the free website design courtesy of Flockey, a sponsored advertisement link on Xenmion Web Designers Directory and a free coding package courtesy of BreakCoding. I am pleased to announce that the winner of this prize is…
Chris Brandrick. Well done Chris!
And last but not least we are down to the last prize of the contest. This prize included an awesome hosting account by HostedFX, the free coded wordpress design courtesy of Flockey and a free logo by the outstanding logo designer, Tom Huveners. I am pleased to announce, that the winner of prize number 1 is…
Manfrin. Well done sir!
Well done to all our winners and thank you everyone for taking part and of course contributing to Flockey. I appreciate everything and I will have a contest just like this in the foreseeable future! I can’t express how fun this has been at holding this contest and getting all the amazing subscribers! I hope that you continue to spread the word of Flockey and hope to see you take part in our next contest.
That’s all for now. I will contact all our winners and put them in the right direction. I want to mention a special thank you to all of our sponsors, it wouldn’t have happened without you! Thanks very much, I will have an update tomorrow with all the latest that has been happening over the time I’ve not blogged.
Regards,
-jm
The contest will end on the 27th of September 2008 at 18:00pm GMT.
Hello everyone and welcome to Flockey’s first official contest and boy oh’ boy it’s a beauty. I would like to get straight into it and let you all know how you can be apart of this contest and how you can be in with a chance to win some seriously great prizes.
Okay, so basically there will be three winners in the end up. What you have to do is blog post about this contest on your blog/website and then simply subscribe to the RSS feed by email. By subscribing via email it allows me to see all the emails who have subscribed and then all these emails will be put into a randomizer, like so.
You may be thinking to yourself, I don’t have a blog?! Don’t worry, if you don’t have a blog then please do so and spread the word by using Twitter, Plurk etc etc… you know the script! Once you have posted about the contest on your blog/website and subscribed to the rss feed, then please comment on this blog post with the URL of your blog post, about the contest
Okay, so onto the prizes shall we?
Winner #1
Winner one will win an awesome one year’s free hosting on the Gold Package, as well as a free domain name for one full year all courtesy of Gareth Hodson’s HostedFX.
Not only that, winner one will also win this amazing, unique wordpress blog design, designed by myself and coded by Josh Craddock of BreakCoding.
There is more? Yes of course there is. Winner one will also win a free logo design courtesy of Mr. Tom Huvenurs of TomHuveners.net - check him out.
Winner #2
Winner two will win a free, yes that’s right free website design of your choice, courtesy of Flockey.
Not only that winner two will also receive a sponsored advertisement link on the Xemion Web Designers Directory.
And finally winner two will win a free coding package courtesy of BreakCoding. You will get a design coded in completely valid XHTML/CSS including one sub-page of your choice. This will be coded over a period of three days as soon as BreakCoding begin on your design.
Winner #3
Winner three will win two advertisement banners of their choice, courtesy of my good friend Adam Hall.
Winner three will also win free wordpress integration courtesy of Tomos Wyn.
And last but not least winner three will win a free business card design, curtosy of Flockey.com
Okay, so go on subscribe and become a part of the contest. We have some nice prizes up for grabs. Below I have put the simple form were you can enter your email address. Remember. Post a comment on this post with the URL to your post
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this contest, greatly appreciated;
Special thanks to Adam Hall from Netspiel, Josh Craddock of BreakCoding, Tomos Wyn of M1Creative and last but not least, James Paden of Xemion.com.
Kindest regards,
James McDonald
Hello everyone, yes it’s true the contest is almost here. I have been talking on Twitter about it for a couple of days now and we are almost all set to go. I just want to apologize for the lack of posts recently, just had a lot of client work and trying to get the contest all set. I can say we have some nice prize giveaways, so look forward to it.
I think just now I will give you a break down of how it’s going to work.
Okay, so basically to enter the contest you will have to blog or write about the contest and link to the contest on your post. Then (read this part - very important!) you will have to subscribe to the RSS feed by email, so it is much easier for us to select all the emails and then randomly select the winners using this nifty little tool (thanks Gareth)!
I won’t say no more. Look forward to it tomorrow!
Anyways, moving on shall we? It’s true. I have a new little project in the works. I have eventually gotten around to designing business cards and going to be locally distributing them around the city of Glasgow. If you want to check out the new website here it is.
That’s all for now folks, sorry I have rushed this a little bit. No worries though, contest tomorrow. Look forward to it Be sure to follow me on Twitter for all the details
Regards,
James
Hello everyone, this post will be kept brief just to inform you that I have just written up a client help sheet. Basically what this is, is a sheet that I will get my future clients to download and they then fill it in. It gives me feedback and of course makes it easier to get to know what type of style of design the client is looking for.
I will also be writing up a client feedback document as well very soon, so I can keep track of how clients are enjoying/not enjoying the service at Flockey and hopefully we can work on any problems and make Flockey a better place.
So I guess thats all I have for now. If you want to leave any comments, by all means do so.
Regards,
James
Woohoo! That’s all I can say at the moment. Been studying for a few weeks now and i’ve passed my theory test first time this morning. It’s always one of those nerve racking places to go to. Get your own wee booth and computer. The staff were very calm and very serious looking (I think thats just how us scottish look first thing in the morning though?). Anyways, I strolled through it, all the questions that came up were related in someway to what I was studying at home. So I am pretty chuffed to be honest.
So… bring on the practical driving test!
On another note, if you could subscribe to my rss feed that’d be great. I’m trying to get as much readers as possible! So go on subscribe!
Hello everyone, Flockey is now looking for some tutorial writers, that are capable of writing quality tutorials. I am looking for writers who have experience in doing this and can show me examples. I am looking for tutorials to be written for design, i.e - Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator related.
I am looking for people to write up at least 500+ words for $20.00. If you exceed the 500 words that would be absolutely fantastic! I am also looking for people who are passionate about design and are willing to write in detail. If you have never written a tutorial before and want to give it a try then by all means contact me, I’ll be more than willing to give it a read and see if it is worthy of going on the blog. If you’ve not noticed yet I have listed this vacancy on the about page and you can apply for it there also using the little contact form. I am really looking forward to hopefully getting some really nice tutorials written by people who have the time and patience. I will try my hardest to get some written by myself, although I cannot promise anything due to the high demand in client work recently, although I will try!
On another note there have been new additions to the portfolio and hopefully some more very soon. The new designs that have been added are DigitalRacing & HolidayForums. Digital Racing is yet another website by a previous client of mine called Ryan Gilmore, the owner of Myp90x which I designed not long ago. Ryan was nice enough to come back to me for more work and I have turned this design around in under 24 hours. I will have another post in the future when this website goes live. As for HolidayForums this was a collaboration by myself & Adam Hall. I was given the project to do by a client who was working with both myself and Adam at the time. This was originally for a website called FreelanceForum although we drastically changed it and i’m extremely happy with the outcome. This has now been sold on.
That’s all for now folks. If you’d be nice enough to subscribe to the new RSS feed, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Hello there folks, today’s post will be a quick one. Basically, it’s just to let you all know that I have added my twitter feed to the side bar to the right -> and also added the new feedcounter (subscribe 
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As the owner and publisher of this blog, I was wondering what you as my readers would maybe like to see introduced? I know there are so many sidebar widgets etc but what would you like to see when you come to read this blog?
You can reply by commenting on this post and everyones suggestions are welcome.
Kindest regards,
James
