The Recital & Concerto Competition is now in its 100th year! As part of the celebrations of this massive milestone, I’ve completely overhauled the RCC website, giving it a massive facelist and expanding it. It now includes blog posts to be able to provide regular updates, and a heap of other…
It’s been a few years since I last presented a workshop on Rockschool exams! I ran a workshop as a webinar this time around, to be able to open it up to teachers outside of Perth. I The Rockschool webinar was well received, with some wonderful feedback from other teachers…
I’m thrilled to be recognised by the Australian Guild of Music & Speech (AGMS) with a Top Teacher Award, for the student with the highest mark from Grade 7 to Fellowship for practical music in Western Australia in 2023. My student Joya completed an associate-level Professional Performance Diploma in Electronic Organ, and…
It’s been my privilege to assist the non-profit Association CounterAct to close down and leave behind their website as a resource repository. The WordPress website had a massive facelift, rewrite and resources and case studies added. More information will be added this year as a lasting legacy, which will remain…
Having been a big source of consternation amongst members for its poor performance, I created a brand new WA music teacher directory for the WA Music Teachers’s Association, launched at the end of 2023. The original directory was a subsection within a Joomla website, and the teacher profiles generally did not rank…
Domain Name Mastery Pre-Launch sale on now until 31st July 2023! This comprehensive course will cover everything you might possibly want to know about domain names: what they are, what options are available (some may surprise you!), what costs to expect (and what scams are out there), how to register…
It was very gratifying to last night be awarded the Rotary District 9455 Communications Award, for best Rotary Club communications (including the club bulletin, website and social media). We (the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay) have won this award for 3 of the past 4 years. As the webmaster since…
One of the potential pitfalls of saving money by looking after a website yourself after an external agency has built it for you is to tank any initial high rankings by unknowingly deleting the aspects that assist with page range and replacing them with things that don’t. In a nutshell,…
I got to have a lot of fun with a little starter site that I knocked out in a few hours for my daughter. In trying to book a gig, the venue wanted to see an online presence and evidence of supporters to be able to make a decision that…
In updating the Microscopes in Schools website this week, it struck me that this tiny site has stood the test of time, fulfilling its function with minimal cost and minimal time investment required. This site has remained largely unchanged since 2012 (the earliest snapshot the Wayback Machine has is from…