We aren't one to blow our own trumpets, but this is worth shouting about.

We have pulled the 'comments' feature from our blog this week.  The amount of comment spam we were getting was off the scale, and as a very large proportion of it was from my own industry, I'm ashamed for my peers.

This month I finally made the decision to stop offering SEO to clients as a stand-alone service. Whilst supporting clients in their SEO efforts combined with development projects is very much fine with me, I'm completely fed up with the whole subject.

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.