Current State of Charfish Affairs

The last post I wrote on Charfish was dated 19 May, 2008. That’s almost 3 months ago. Shameful, I know. Because of my absence, I think it only fair I tell you where I’ve been and where I’m going with this phenomenon called Charfish.

Where have I been?

I’ve been right here. Yup, the whole time.

There. Wasn’t that fun?

In all truth I’ve been busy. Insanely so. 18-hour days sort of busy. At the current moment I’ve got 16 projects cooking all at the same time.

They say if you need something done, give it to a busy man. Well, that’s me. In the past couple months I’ve done everything: album covers, book covers, book design, some writing gigs, about 8000 website/blog designs and about triple that in headers and banners.

I haven’t blogged because, well, I’ve been busy with the things that pull in the dough.

That’s not totally cool to you readers, though, is it? From the comments and emails I’ve gotten here at Charfish, I know a small number of readers (zero) care about how much money I’m making or how busy I am. The more popular posts here are about how to run a business, how to design, things like that. Having realized that, I can start cranking out some more content for you.
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And Then There Were Three…

This site and the company behind it began as a design firm in mid-2007. Actually, Charfish was around long before that, but 2007 saw it registered as a legal, tax-paying LLC.

At its inception we (or rather I, since it was still a one-man-band at that time) were a design firm. My intention was to do top-end web and blog design. I did exactly that for about two weeks.

And then they came.

Clients. They kept coming and they kept bringing more. Questions like, “Well, you’ve designed our banner, why don’t you just design our whole site?” became more and more common. As did, “If you can design websites, you can probably design books as well, right? Why don’t you design my ebook for me?”
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