We are delighted to announce the launch of five new websites this month for our valued clients - ranging from wordpress, to CMS to custom design and build.

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.

Two old stories making the rounds this week - old for us Geeks anyway. The stories both are of responsibility that comes with the power technology can now offer.

Google has released its Street View service, where you can view real pictures of streets in the major cities such as Newcastle. The Google Car went about each city with a big camera attached to it, and took pictures. They then said they would blur out people's faces and cars so they couldn't be identified, but it hasn't been good enough and people have been captured doing things as diverse as breaking and entering, leaving sex shops, throwing up and flashing their boobs.