March 1, 2007

This ones for the people on my feed. I’m moving to FeedBurner so I can track my statistics!

http://feeds.feedburner.com/MatNewton

Thanks in advance for moving over.

The next post on this blog will announce that my website is up and running!

Fyi, in the ‘Heart Attack’ post with the before and after pic,  I posted the wrong before pic. This has now been corrected.

The most important six photos for the Newton Clothiers website - that I really needed to come out well - were the ones showing how to measure yourself.

So imagine my heart attack at 11.30pm last night when I discovered one of them hadn’t come on the cd from my photographer. For a couple of minutes I couldn’t believe it… the imminent release of my business getting pushed back even further! I sent smses and emails to him expressing my urgent need for help but in anticipation of the photos being completely missing I set about fixing the problem.

Very soon, I realised that the incredibly large size of the photo resolution (10MP) would come into my favour. Thank God for photo editing software.

I opened up Macromedia Fireworks and started snipping away at the photo for measuring your hips:

and finished with this:

I’m pretty happy with the result! A very scary moment though. Starting this business is teaching me more and more about the value of improvisation. I’m loving it.

As a way to thank the readers of this blog, I’m issuing unique 10% discount codes for my website to anyone who wants one. Every five times it’s used - by you, a friend, a stranger - I’ll send you a free shirt.

Deal?

Send an email to matthew a) newtonclothiers.com and I’ll reply with your code.