The other day I was going through my activity logs on my server and discovered that there have been people downloading vast amounts of my images and source code etc! First I was angry – you know how dare they! Then I was determined to stop them… so I began searching for ways that would stop them. Quite fruitless to be honest as I discovered you can make it harder but not stop them completely and if people want to be unethical and steal stuff then they are going to do it no matter what I do to stop them.

During my research, I stumbled on this website: http://www.drpeterjones.com/hidden/hidden.php where the author basically said, the harder you make it for people to copy, the harder they will try and gave a very interesting example. Took me a little while to “crack it” but I did in the end and the crazy thing was that it was a easy as he said it was. After I had cracked his code, a light shone and I went “ahhh so easy!!” and had a bit of a giggle.

So basically I have come to the conclusion that I should be flattered that people want to steal my stuff (what the!?!), but if you think that my work is good enough to pinch, the least you could do is leave a comment telling me how much you enjoy looking at my work!

Phew has it been a busy start to the year!!!

A few restorations, a wedding, retouching jobs and websites to do and I don’t know where the time has gone!

I have finally added a restoration section to my portfolio which will be updated again shortly. You can check it out here.

There is a new site added to AllyKatDesign portfolio – superhealth-fitness.com.

This has been designed for personal trainer Matt D’Angelo, so that existing and new clients can benefit from his expertise. You can visit his site here.

Ausbeauties is getting a complete overhaul, with all the images being retouched by yours truly with a fresh new look that will showcase the girls and photography beautifully.

Peninsula Hapkido maybe getting a new look shortly as well, moving over to a Joomla cms, making it easier for the owners to update their site.

So all in all its been a busy start to the year, but I think it will just keep getting busier and busier as it gets along, but one of my new years resolutions is to update my website much more often!

The new look Brendan B Photography website has been rolled out!!

Not much has changed for those of you have visited the site previously, except it has become more polished and sleek. It still features the same easy to navigate menu and gallery, and the mailto link has been upgraded to a contact form, which of course thanks the user for taking the time to send an email.

The new Peninsula Hapkido website has been rolled out!!

There isn’t much content yet, just a home page and a contact page, but its slowly filling up with more content soon The form has also been updated to thank the person that submitted it, which is quickly becoming an AllyKatDesign trademark for  contact forms.

Its good to see the new layout up and running finally!

Stay tuned for more updates.