Branded07 gets its first feature!
Posted Sunday, November 23rd, 2008About 2 months ago I received a dubious email from a gentleman claiming to work at .Net Magazine. He asked me if it would be ok to publish a feature on my site… Now at the time, Branded07 was just kicking off and I had barely started getting my first visitors. Me being sceptical and all, didn’t really believe it.I responded light heartedly, only to be replied to with a list of very sensible questions. It then became very real and I started getting quite excited!
I was asked:
1: Where did you get the inspiration for your site’s style?
2: How do you test your sites for accessibility?
3: What tools or techniques do you use to make sure your sites get built to good standards?
I answered very thoroughly as there was a chance I would not get featured.
Anyway I was told if I get in I would get a PDF version of the mag and a copy sent through the post. So I waited…a month went bye and the new copy of .Net came out (Issue 182) I stood in the shop, searching through this magazine for what must have been like 30 minutes…I nearly got kicked out! I looked under every section, searching for a line, a word, even a mention…But nothing. I still bought it and had my wife run through it a couple of times to check I hadn’t missed it, but no, I didn’t get my feature…Gutted.
Anyway, a few days ago I got a text from a friend saying…
Hey, saw your feature in .Net magazine, am very jealous!
It was in Issue 183! Woohoo! Straight out to the shops to buy it, and there I am! My very own quarter page spread!
“I even have a quote!”
Now for all you big successful agencies this is not such a big thing, but it is my first feature and I am ecstatic!
I am in along side some very special websites which are certainly worth a mention: www.hype.com.br / www.jasmax.co.nz / niketo.ru so I am chuffed to bits!
Thank you .Net! If anyone fancies taking a look it’s in issue 183 pg61 in the gallery section. (You don’t have to buy it but don’t tell them that!)
Posted Saturday, Jun 5th, 10
November 24th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
sorry i’m s bit late on this one, still, Well done Mate! :)))))
November 24th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Great site. Alot of your personality has gone into this.
It’s informative, interesting, and always moving forward. Congrats Robs, you’ve worked for it, and now the rewards are starting to pay off for all the hours you have put into this.
Really love the puffins, don’t ever loose them, they are soooooo cute. Also like the vibrant pink, very eye catching.
November 25th, 2008 at 11:03 am
I found your website a month or so ago before seeing it again in the .net feature. I was really impressed by it – the puffins are an especially nice touch and your site is extremely personable.
Congratulations on your fantastic feature.
November 25th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Congratulations Rob! You deserve it, your site is great.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Congrats Rob! I thought you were already featured among some sites or mags but you are just too humble to mention it. hehe..
Again, congratulations man! You deserve it!
November 30th, 2008 at 2:34 am
You could have at least bought me a cookie for tipping you off!
December 5th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Congratulations on the feature.
December 10th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Congrats Rob! I’m sure you must be feeling very proud of yourself and your hardwork. When we first got featured in a book, both Ron and me (Ron is the co-founder of thepixelage) we were like jumping around and next you know people start writing about you in their blog, nice things of course :).
I know what you mean with the big agencies, guess it is kind of normal for them but small flies like you and me, it is BIG and knowing our hardwork get notice is simply amazing!!
December 10th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Congrats, your site looks great, it well deserves the spot light :-)
December 25th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Just bumped into your site from a Digg post. This is super cool.
And congrats on the .Net feature
January 3rd, 2009 at 11:25 am
nice article thanx and happy new year
January 4th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Congrats. Very nice design for the site. You may already know this, but you’re also featured on ui-patterns.com (link below), for having a cool “Fat Footer”. Keep up the good work.
http://ui-patterns.com/collection/fat-footer/image/368#focus
January 10th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
congratulations, well deserved
January 29th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Congrats and some very well deserved recognition.
February 4th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Grats on gettin’ the feature!
Just thought I’d mention that your site has been ripped too!!!
Check this guys rip:
http://www.csselite.com/showcase/clean/chris-hortsch.html#comment-51230
February 4th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
@ QWERTY, yes thank for pointing this out, I have already spoken with Chris Hortsch, the owner of the site and he has promised me that he will get his designer to rectify the ‘similar’ content.
Thanks again for pointing it out though.
February 18th, 2009 at 6:21 am
Congratulations Rob! Your site looks great and you deserve it! :)
March 20th, 2009 at 12:44 am
Hardwork pays off Rob as you have found out, it’s good to be noticed by the magazines for sure.
Seeing as it’s been a while since this, how has it affected incoming work, have clients realised you were featured?
May 10th, 2009 at 2:33 am
man.. and you deserve to be featured… I loved your design.. and I LOVE penguins too!! haha.. good job, keep up the good work! :)
July 31st, 2009 at 10:46 am
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September 7th, 2009 at 10:47 am
You are good
November 19th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
good article thanks