Not that most of you are going to care terribly much, but the project that has been eating my life for the last few months went live today, in a more-or-less pain free manner. There’s been a few minor tweaks, but nothing has fallen over, nothing has broken, and no-one is running around like a headless chicken.

The new Slug and Lettuce pub chain website is now live. And while it looks quite simple, it has a completely state of the art on-line booking system (and it is my business to know what state of the art in this field is – it really is better than anyone else’s, I promise you). I could bore you all rigid with waffle about the clever features, the ultra sexy (and user-friendly) admin system, and so on and forth, but the acid test is simpler than that: since going live a couple of hours ago, they have already had a reasonable number of enquiries via this system. Client confidentially prevents me from giving away precise numbers, but we appear to be on course to put through as many hundred covers in two days as their old system did in a month. And that’s on launch day. Things will only improve over the next year or so.

So, yeah. That’s done. Next!