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Hello World – SpyreStudios Is Now Live (finally!)

April 6, 2008 by Jon 15 Comments

“Hello world! Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!“

Yep, so this site is now up and running! I finally managed to find some time to do it between 2 blog designs for clients. :)

I guess I should start by telling you what this site is about and introduce myself, right? (hey, if you already know me, just jump to the comment section and say hi!)

Ok, so my name’s Jon, I’m a blogger, writer, designer and musician. I’m from Montreal, Canada. I started drinking because of… wait! What?

How I Got Started

I started blogging on Smart Wealthy Rich, a blog which I have now sold to my good friend Liz Strauss.

I was writing about blogging, entrepreneurship, and stuff like that. It was a blast to write on this blog (and I hope to write on it again eventually), many of the posts on there received over 100 comments. Really a lot of fun! Go check it out! :)

Freelance Folder

Then I started Freelance Folder, a multi-author blog about freelancing, web-working, business, productivity, etc… After almost a year blogging on SWR (smartwealthyrich) I just felt like it’d be cool to share the spotlight with other bloggers. Freelance Folder was my main project (apart from this blog) till I sold it to Mason Hipp.

What About This Site?

We (the Spyre team) wanted to start this blog for many reasons. The main reason is that we needed a place to write about SpyreStudios and our projects and personally because I wanted to write about my personal experiences as a web-designer and also give some tips on blogging, building an online community, social media and of course, design. :)

So here it is: SpyreStudios!

Make yourself at home, enjoy your stay, and leave a comment below (even if it’s just to say hi!)

*note: don’t forget to grab the RSS feed! :)

Filed Under: Blogging, Design, News

Comments

  1. Jon Phillips says

    April 7, 2008 at 2:03 am

    I might as well be the first one to leave a comment (and see if it works fine) :)

  2. Jacob Cass says

    April 7, 2008 at 2:42 am

    Well I am the second or first official :D

  3. James Chartrand - Men with Pens says

    April 7, 2008 at 3:04 am

    May you achieve great fame and not burn out from having too many blogs :)

    J’ai hâte de voir ce que tu vas nous écrire ici… hmmm… !

    DUDE! Where is your subscribe to comments plugin??

  4. Jon Phillips says

    April 7, 2008 at 10:12 am

    Hey Z, yep finally launched, was about time heh?
    hot png/xhtml action? It almost sounds like a bad porn movie or something! lol (but yeah, we can take PNG/PSD files and turn them into css/xhml! Voila, sales pitch hehe )

    *note: Zasta is my partner, and we do lots of design work together, I’ll write a more glorious introduction soon since we’re in this together hehe :)

  5. Jon Phillips says

    April 7, 2008 at 9:10 am

    @Jacob – hehe, welcome! :)

    @James – J’ai bin hate de voir ce que je vais écrire moi aussi! lol
    Subscribe to comments? Well, you know me, I always forget to add that one, I need some time to fix some small bugs though :)

  6. Zasta says

    April 7, 2008 at 10:06 am

    Ahh Finally launched!

    You know i’ve been waiting for this! ZING!

    Let’s get ready for hot png/xhtml action!

  7. Jon Phillips says

    April 7, 2008 at 10:13 am

    @Zasta: you don’t have a gravatar.com account yet? :)

  8. Dave Navarro says

    April 7, 2008 at 10:17 am

    Cool! Checked here 24 hrs ago and saw the “coming soon” … glad to see it live!

  9. Jon Phillips says

    April 7, 2008 at 10:26 am

    @Dave – I’m glad to see it live too! :)

  10. Ritu says

    April 7, 2008 at 11:06 am

    I thought I would receive an email once the site was launched ;-) .

    Looks cool. That’a all I am going to say here, additional feedbacks via email or SKYPE :-)

    It looks grrreeaatttttttttttttt, and man I am so glad it’s finally live …. Congratulations!

  11. Jon Phillips says

    April 7, 2008 at 11:13 am

    @Ritu – I actually sent you an email yesterday a couple minutes before midnight (told you it’d be online Sunday), gotta leave now, but will be on Skype tonight :)

  12. Ritu says

    April 7, 2008 at 11:48 am

    Hey jon, yup! I just checked my other email and found all your messages. Sorry!

    I hardly check that email anymore so when you send me an email please send it to my usual one. that’s the one I use all the time. I might be online later not sure though.

  13. hank says

    April 22, 2008 at 1:20 pm

    Congrats! Looks pretty slick! I’ll be around!

  14. Mike Smith says

    November 24, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    You need to update the about section of this post :-P you no longer own Freelance Folder, and people CAN expect more than 2 posts a week here now. haha

    It’s cool to look back and see where you started on this blog. It’s come a LONG way. congrats man!

  15. Jon Phillips says

    November 30, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    Hey Mike,

    haha, I guess you’re right – after I saw your comment I went back and checked some older posts, damn this blog has evolved since I launched it hehe (and thanks a lot for being part of it man!) :)

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