They say that hairdressers’ toughest clients are themselves. We know all about that now – cuz we certainly put looong hours & thought into creating our own new “do”, but not in the way that you would expect… Our new website (complete with content management back-end that even George W. Bush could use) took us a total of 7 (working) hours to put together, start to finish.

So how come I said that we put in “looong hours & thought”? We spent most of the long hours staring at our completed new website and a few more thinking how much we like it after that!

No, I don’t have split-personality disorder (yet). Here’s what happened:
We decided to eat our own dogfood and make ourselves into a little case study.

THE MISSION

• Create a new website for ourselves in the shortest amount of time, using a very tight boggerol budget – while having ALL the functionality & features that we decided we wanted beforehand and making sure that we don’t compromise on quality and standards.

THE RESULT

• This website is the (instant) pudding. Utilising open-source solutions, free web services, and a little grey matter we created our new website in two days – planning, coding, sleeping and playing Wii tennis included!

THE LESSON

• We used cost-effective reliable, well-supported open-source solutions to create our new little website in a flash.  We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

NOTE: If you’re a member of an “online phenomenon” investigators club or anything remotely similar, please read this before you and your friends invade our offices…

We have to say that working and playing on the internet for longer than we can remember, spending lots of time playing with evaluating the coolest, easiest free & open source stuff helped a lot. That, and having planned properly before jumping into the task at hand, made it feel almost too easy.