Thursday, March 25, 2010
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Our foray into layout and design
This is something that happened quite by accident. It was a chance encounter at the Army Golf Course that resulted in our tentative steps into the world of book design and layout, which just goes to show that golf makes good business sense.
To cut a long story short, we were employed to edit and design a telephone directory for the Red Eagles. Top secret stuff and we were thrilled to be chosen, so we put everything on hold, gave our men in khaki a generous discount, and went to work.
They must have liked what we did because it resulted in another commission: to edit and design a coffee table book on the city of Allahabad, for the Indian Army. The army has one of its largest bases here, so it wanted an informative book that could be kept in its guesthouses to welcome visiting dignitaries and tell them more about the city.
Working on this project was a tremendous experience and one that we’re not likely to forget anytime.
Monday, April 13, 2009
The website was made overnight
It took four long years for us to finally muster up the courage, dump our existing jobs and finally go it on our own. Even then, there were a lot of doubts, uncertainty, and procrastination. Time was also a major factor, because we had already been working as freelance writers/editors and jobs were coming in all the time.
One day, I said to hell with it, and opened a web hosting account with Yahoo. It’s amazing how fast you get to work when you’re forced to put some money down. In fact we made the initial website overnight. It was quite a feat, given the fact that Avs is more conversant with grammar than html, and I know more about marine navigation as opposed to navigating a web page.
Well, although its still a work in progress, and not the fanciest web page ever, www.the9words.com is a 100 % handmade and homemade website, made on Microsoft Publisher 2007. Do check it out.
