It’s been ages since my last posting. I’d initially hoped to maintain this blog with useful articles relating to security, SEO and any thing else that would be helpful to design clients.  Unfortunately, I just haven’t been able to allocate the amount of time I’d have liked to for this purpose.  Given my workload in the past six months, I’m not sure this will change any time soon.

So although I probably won’t be making regular entries for awhile, I wanted to make the official announcement here relating to the recent increase of my design fees and changes in services.  As of January 1st, 2009 - my standard design fee has increased to $1000 for independent companion web sites and $1400 for agency web sites.  The price difference is due to the custom Agency-specific CMS now available and the significant amount of development that went into it.  There are more details about VedaAgency on the new Software page of my web site, though in summary - it allows the dynamic addition and removal of complete escort profiles on an agency web site.  This also includes separate photo galleries for each companion.

I’ve also started selling my VedaCMS and VedaAgency CMS software as a standalone application for use on those web sites I have not designed.  Again, details can be found on my software page.  I’m currently offering it under a leased license agreement with no 3rd party install option (eg: This means I would need to install it instead of someone of your own choosing).

Also, I just wanted to say thank you to all of my design clients - for whom I owe the success of my business.  It is, and continues to be, a privilege to work with you all.

Kudos to the Chicago Tribune this morning for printing a story that poses the very same question I ask myself every time I hear about legal action taken against sex workers. And that is, ‘Why is this illegal?’.

Read the story: The other prostitution scandal….

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Just a heads up that beginning January 1st 2008, my services and fees will be changing as follows:

Web Design Services:

• Standard fee will increase from $750 to $800
• Secure SSL Form Processing will now be available to everyone at no additional cost
• Hosting is now provided on a private, dedicated server owned by Veda Designs
• VedaCMS, which allows companions to update text, photos and maintain a simple availability calendar has been completely rewritten and unified into one secure location.
• Everything else that was previously included

Hosting Renewal Fees*

• 1 Year Renewal: $120
• 6 Month Renwal: $90 (previously unavailable)
• Month-to-Month: $20 (previously unavailable)

* Existing Veda clients that have paid for the next year of hosting will not need to worry about the new hosting fees until their next renewal term.

My general policy until now has been to have the first working draft of a new website ready within one week from when I’m sent all of the project data. However, because the new baby is more active and mobile now…I’m finding that I have less time for uninterrupted work throughout the day and recent projects are taking about a week longer than they once did.

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Just a heads up that I will be migrating this website to a new server tonight. Depending on how long it takes for the server admins to reinstall my SSL certificate, my site may be down throughout the night.