Loopie World is a website which houses a collection of free children’s stories that are based on the cute and crazy little characters called the Loopies. The free kid’s stories are updated every month and are 100% original. Each story comes along with a great illustration and a downloadable PDF version.

We initially created the Loopie World website three years ago, and yes since it is one of our own initiatives and not one for a client, it has taken that long to evelve into something from the top shelf. I guess it just seems to happen that way in business, you tend to place all of your focus on paying clients and your own projects have to take second place.

So what exactly have we done to improve Loopie World:

Well the site started out as 3 static pages and a mailing list sign-up. That’s it.
Next it transitioned into a website with more pages and a few links to stories, but still nothing special.
We eventually found the time to re-deign the website from scratch and gave it a much more creative look that would be appealing to kids or parents looking for stories for their kids. We added the stories as we published them – when we got time to publish them. The result was that we had a nice looking website with some good content on it but it never got updated because we just got too busy and alas it was kind of forgotten.

Recently we decided that is was a shame that such a gem of a website would be left on a heap and serve very little purpose, so we decided to pump some jet fuel into the project and take it to the next level. We converted the entire website to work with the Wordpress CMS. This allows us to add new kids stories quickly and easily. Next we added a whole lot of useful plugins to make the site work even better and be more customised for our purpose. We added all of our content and decided that we wanted to make it work for us. While we will always offer free children’s stories at Loopie World, we wanted to create something sustainable, so we created the premium kids story club.

We now offer a membership of just $7 per month. Membership gives you four additional children’s stories every month, each one illustrated and exclusive. Members also get access to special content that is not available to anyone else. We will soon be adding audio versions of all of the premium kids stories as well as interactive books.

An additional feature that we will be integrating is an online store where we will sell all of our great Loopie products. Some nice interactive games will also be added so that kids visiting the site can have a bit of fun as well.

The premium stories are in the process of being completed and will be ready for our members by the end of October 2009.

At present these are the free children’s stories available to download:

• The wobbly car
• The Christmas Star
• A Piratey Adventure
• Granny Goes Away
• Pancake’s Pancake
• The Space Adventure
• The Rainbow Maker
• The Baking Contest
• A Present for Tubblie
• A Loopie Christmas
• Wusky’s Undersea Discovery
• Pilot’s Plane
• The Midnight Feast

Please would you visit Loopie World and add it and / or the stories to your social bookmarking links.

Give a little and get a whole lot in return!

Selfishness has a bit of a destructiveness way about it. It causes us to focus inward, clouding our vision and eventually causing an implosion. SPLAT!

I decided to give a little!

We are all faced with busy lives, daily stresses and struggling to pay the bills. Our lives automatically push us into a place where we are continually thinking about our problems and the issues that we need to deal with. It becomes so easy to become self-centered, even though it is more than likely unintentional.

To break free from the mold of self, we need to adjust our focus to that of an outward one. It is only when we focus outward that we see that our problems are rather small or sometimes insignificant.

My time is incredibly valuable to me. I run a time based business. A creative solutions firm, specializing in web design, website development, hosting, graphic design, flash development, animation and email marketing campaigns. Time wasted is costly! Not only is it costly financially but wasted time causes pressure in other areas of life as well.

So I’m a busy person – “Big deal, get over it!”

I decided to take a little time and give something back. I created a directory for all of the South African Website Design Companies and am offering free listing to web design companies across South Africa. It feels great to do something for the greater good of others. The directory is going to help us all!

How do I feel? GREAT!
I actually feel like I have had a bit of a rush – I like :^)