I finally bit the bullet this week and coughed up the $299 (approx £150) for an expidited review of my business website www.apricot-studios.com. I had been considering Yahoo Directory entry for a couple of years and with the strong pound against the very weak dollar it finally made sense to give it a try.

The category I opted for is “Website Designers” and I expect the real return on investment will be the additional targeted traffic the listing will bring. Although I’m also interested to see if there is any increase in Google Pagerank or if it will open up Google sitelinks for my site too.

Thankfully the entry was approved this morning, though I never thought inclusion was ever really in doubt. I’d be interested to know if anyone has had an entry refused - with the cost being non-refundable that’s got to be a pain?

I’ll post more when I have more results.

I received an email this morning notifying me that as of April 1, 2008, the Adobe Stock Photos royalty-free image service is to be discontinued. Apparently Adobe have made this decision in order to focus efforts in other areas.

Here’s hoping some of those efforts are focused towards improving the next release of Fireworks.

Welcome one and all. Yet another blog in the already overflowing sea of interweb blogs - great!  We are looking to be a little bit different -  we’ll were going to give it a try.

Hold on tight - it’s going to be a bumpy ride.