Rachel Earley | Web Designer/Developer based in Dublin

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a while and it’s well overdue. However it was a project I was involved with last month just after I lost my job and it was important in so many ways in keeping me focused and creative. I’m sure a lot of you know the story but for those who don’t it started with a guy called David Jones writing a book. The difference is he wrote this book in only four days and four nights after becoming unemployed and deciding to do something proactive. Once he wrote the book he rang Newstalk, they liked his story and all of a sudden he was on the morning show talking about it scouting for a publisher and website. This is when the lovely Maryrose from Brightspark Consulting saw an opportunity to help this guy, but in her typical style, she  added a twist. “We’ll do you a website, podcast, book cover and blog, but we’re gonna do it for free AND we’re gonna do it in a week!”

This is where I came in. Maryrose rang me and asked me if I would be on for creating the website.  I was delighted to be involved and the week that ensued was great. The site was designed and signed off on in a day. The cutup happened the next day and then the process of integrating the podcast, blog and book cover happened.  I was introduced to and worked with some fantastic people and the momentum we created was fully of energy. Due to the timescale we also found that things got done fast and we all agreed very quickly which was refreshing! The result was something that we are all very proud of and from my part its a design that I love as I had an open book (excuse the pun) and could do something slightly different.  David is still plugging away now regularly blogs on his website about his book (which is a must read and free to download from the site) and his experiences.

So here’s a nod to the rest of the folk involved. Gordon Murray, David McDonald, David Duignan, Alex Gibson and Dennis Deery. All talented guys and fantastic to work with. You can read more about what they do and who they are on the website on the “How this happened” section.