Luke’s been ill this week, and we had a couple of days in hospital – which were very scary but thankfully now all over and he’s made a full recovery. So needless to say work was dropped completely for a few days and I’m now trying to catch up.
So in terms of the website, we’ve made some great progress with a new feature we’re planning. I’ve employed an editor for the pages (Michelle), who’s got some great experience and I’m sure she’ll make a fantastic job of it. It will be one of the ‘freebie’ items on the site, and will add to the editorial content, whilst remaining focused on our key objective of helping parents/carers entertain their kids.
There’s quite a lot of research to be done before we launch the pages – hopefully by Autumn we should have something to run with. Michelle’s got all the information she needs from me after I started investigating this idea a couple of months ago (until I realised what it could grow into & I decided we’d be much better designating someone to take care of this as a separate project in its own right).
She’s pretty much got creative control of her pages, much like Wendy does on the Holidays pages. Michelle needs to consider now how she wants them to look, and practically how they’re going to work. In a week or so, when she’s had chance to formulate some ideas, I’m going to arrange for her to meet Lee, Andy & Ste at Fluid, who now form the core team responsible for the design of our website. So they can discuss her ideas, translate them into something workable, and get the pages ready for launch. In the meantime, Michelle’s going to be doing the research, writing the editorial and getting sufficient content for a steady growth of the pages after launch.
Talking about growth, our Holidays pages are looking a bit full now, and I think it’s time to bring in a contents list to breakdown the different reviews into sections. Otherwise it’s going to become too difficult to find what you’re looking for. So that’s something for Wendy to think about over the next couple of weeks too.
Holidays are kicking in now, so we’re all away at some point over the next couple of months, and inevitably things take longer to porgress at this time of year. So you’ve got to plan that into your timetables when you’re trying to sort something.
In case you’ve not noticed, the World Cup has started! As I’m writing this England have won their first match 1-0 so I hope they keep up with that form for the rest of the championships! And we’ve provided a bit of themed content too on our site. We’ve added colouring printables of the flags of not only England, but also Scotland, Ireland & Wales too (didn’t want to upset our non-English members!) and I’ve also uploaded a colouring printable of the world cup.
So if you fancy making your own World Cup (on the extreme off-chance that England don’t win, or of course if you’re not English!) then you’ll find it on our ‘Games & Colouring’ section! Bit of tin foil and back it onto cardboard and you’d never know the difference!
Good luck Oliver by the way – Oliver Milman, the Web Editor of startups.co.uk, has just left on a charity trek (& so he’s missing the World Cup!) to Thailand & Burma to raise money for Cancer Research UK - & you can sponsor him on www.justgiving.com/jungleexpedition - go on, you can spare £5 can’t you for such a great cause and such a sacrifice?!!
Come on England!!
Kirsty
entertainthekids.com
