I found out today that Google is removing it's Real Estate Listing Service - the ability to list properties for sale or rent for free on its Mapping pages - in February 2011.

Unrelated to the recent redevelopment of the BHP Law website, also live recently is the new BHP Home website.

BHP Home are a chain of Estate Agents mainly operating in the North Tyneside and Durham areas of the North East.  I developed the previous version of their website, and after 4 years of successful operation it was decided by BHP Home to update the site.

Been a while since I updated you on my latest freelance work, so here it is.

• A very in-depth voucher system, conversion routine and other modifications for an e-commerce website
• SEO work on a range of new and existing client websites
• An online newspaper website, which will be based on Wordpress with custom plugins
• Redesign of an Estate Agency website including easy search functionality
• Update to expand an online food website to be multi-regional including work with the Google Maps API
• Expansion of an existing CMS to generate and print customer letters automatically and create PDF files
• Hosting and maintenance of a golfing website

I hope to have some URLs to add to my portfolio in the coming weeks to present the new development work being finalised at my office here in Amble, Northumberland.

Most projects I undertake involve integrating php based websites with other systems. The reasons for doing so are varied but most work has the intention of automating a process that would have to be done either offline or with a delay. The whole point of the Internet as an end-user is to allow users to perform tasks simply and as quickly as possible.