An Englishman’s home (page) is his castle

John Steed

I’ve decided that before I take this website much further forward it needs to move. People often presume that having a dot com address is somehow bigger and better when registering a domain, but unless you are based in America it can send a misleading message.

I think the web design industry in the UK is bursting with creativity, but lags behind America in terms of community and entrepreneurial spirit (see Ryan Carson’s thoughts on the matter). For my part, placing my own efforts within a geographically-vague space doesn’t help.

So I have registered alex-hardy.co.uk. I’ll transition this site over to that domain in time, where I’ll set up permanent home. The prices of my services will be quoted in £GB pounds (with approximate $US dollar and € Euro conversions). It just seems more honest somehow.

This won’t happen overnight: I have made certain technical commitments to this domain and I need to experiment a little to make the move go as smoothly as possible. A bit of htaccess redirection should ensure that any bookmarks and links out there continue to work. My RSS feed URL will remain unchanged.

Now, I think I’ll go and have a cup of tea and a biscuit (cookie).

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