teaching myself new things

For weeks now, I have been busying myself with learning HMTL, CSS, and a bit of PHP. I still have a lot to learn and I think I reached the part where it’s all too difficult for me but I am not stopping. I will continue to learn as long as I have the time. Who knows how much time I will have when my baby arrives so as long as I still don’t have a baby to spend most of my time with, I will continue to learn.

Right now, I am redesigning my blogs. It’s a way for me to practice what I learn. That’s already a big bonus of teaching myself some new things. And the good part is, I just launched my web designing website, Design Me Pretty. This website is aimed at offering design services to personal bloggers, small time netreprenuers, and work-at-home peeps who are earning form their blogs. I am not targeting to design corporate websites. I like to stay with blogs because they are much more fun to design.

I started Design Me Pretty because I want to start my long time dream to be able to provide web designing services. I want to be able to provide pretty blog designs that are unique and simply cute. So anyway, I am not expecting clients to come pouring soon because I still have a portfolio to build up but I am already open to orders just in case.

I am thinking of a special offer to give away to my first few clients. Right now, my offered rates for blog designs are already really low (among the lowest in the blog design industry—I researched) but I am willing to take 50% off for those who will place an order before the end of April.

Then there is another special offer I am thinking to offer to blogger friends because I need a few people to help me get the word out but I am not sure if there will be volunteers… Hmm…, I will have to ask around.