Yesterday marked our one year anniversary of becoming a company (September 6th, 2023 being our company registration date) and I can tell you, we’ve made both lots of progress as well as so little in other areas, I took breaks from creating and pushing the company at times, along with getting confused and overwhelmed by how much there is to do.

So first of all, why did I create VEX.blue? — I originally created VEX.blue as an acronym as the website came before the company, I was originally going to call the company ‘Video Editing Xavia’, The Xavia taken from my last name and Video Editing, well it’s our main service we try to provide to people. This obviously changed when I realised I could do VHS Conversions & Podcasting services that I was already helping provide for free to my grandad as well as Trans Pride Southampton; a organisation I helped Found.

Obviously over the year we’ve added various more services such as;
– Southampton.Social our Mastodon instance for local users (completely free from Southampton, UK users to use by the way)
– Social Media Management for Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon for the moment but will probably expand into the META suite in the future.
and just recently our Articles, this is what you are reading right now. Each day I write a little article to explain something or give support by giving a small tutorial, and even just little ‘META’ updates like this one.

There are many ways we could expand into the future, as of the moment I am learning more and more about web-development as seen by the new v2.2 of the website. Sadly I am still working on a static website but I may start looking into how to work with such intergrations as react in the future, stepping up my game and learning how to make dynamic pages making it easier for future updates and even change of styles or themes in the future.

Will any new services drop before the end of the year? — I have been looking into one service that could possibly drop in the near future and it’s all to do with our Southampton.Social project, and that is hosting Mastodon Instances, we’d hope to help people easily run a Mastodon Instance for themselves. family and/or friends. These would most likely be cheap small instances but I’d give the added benefit of managing them by blocking Instances that are outright illegal as well as giving tech support if someone needed help. This does not have release-date as of the moment but now I’ve mentioned about it, I may actually start making the pages for it.

What makes VEX.blue different than other companies? – We try to make sure that every penny you spend on us is worth it, along with are currently a one person team when it comes to most of our services & projects. Our goals are simple, make it easier for people to be creative and provide one of the best services for the prices we set. Here’s to another year, you can always support us in our socials at the bottom of each page.

A few days ago I started writing ‘blog’ posts for this website, starting with Welcome to v2.2 where I wrote about version 2.2 of the VEX.blue website. After creating my second post Decentralised Social Media, i’d started to realised that this ‘blog’ was much more than just me writing about the updates for this website and that I’d most likely want to write about the topics I love talking to people about (but they often don’t understand).

Also on a quick update there has now been an update with our RSS feed, not only can it be accessed through our new Articles page but at the bottom of every articles page. We are also looking at how the articles could be improved in the future. We also hope to keep the articles free for everyone for ever and don’t like ads so are hoping to avoid adding banner ads in the future (but will have a look at them to see if we could add them without them being in the way or annoying.)

What ‘Articles’ could you see in the future? – I’ve been suggested a few topics that I love talking about, one obviously decentralisation or simply called ‘Fediverse’ in our Topic Tags. The second being gaming reviews, guides, information and more; this is a highly intresting topic to be able to talk about and I could probably work on a Gaming Article here and there, I’m not the best gamer by any means but I do know a thing or two about certain video games. I will mention now, because a Topic Type of ‘Gaming’ or ‘Video Games’ is so broad, I’ll most likely made catogaries such as ‘Gaming News’, ‘Gaming Rumours’, ‘Gaming Guide’, ‘Gaming Review’ & more.

Other topics that I could get into include local (Southampton, UK) based information helping people I live and work around every single day be able to contact and share information about what they believe is important for people to see. I know that the biggest thing about me writing all of these is to help spread (hopefully correct) information, develop my skills further along with giving myself a purpose. I hope to keep this whole article system free for everyone but maybe in the future I may have to add a banner ad to cover costs or maybe even just link a donation page for those who can support the updates. Thank you all for reading and stay safe.

Welcome to version 2.2 of the VEX.blue website. I recently was looking across our wonderful website here and realised that it didn’t look so great, possibly due to me coding it myself from HTML, CSS and JS (what I don’t know much about). So I spent the past few days working on making this website more simple and usable for the general user. This is not only handy for my learning of ‘What makes a good website’ but also now is getting to the point that I am learning more of what I can do with static websites (like this one).

As you’ve also probably noticed by now, this is a full blog post. I wanted to learn a little bit more of RSS feeds and how I can use them to my advantage when it comes to this website. I could even use them from this site for podcasts, video edits and updates for services and things in the future.

“How would this change how I do my projects?” – I’m not planning on this really changing the work that I do on the services but could make it a lot more interesting with blog posts like this one being produced every so often or even some tutorial posts such as ‘How to join the Fediverse?’ being produced. This would allow me to express myself on the website as well as make it easier for people to follow these things along through longer posts than ones with the limit of 500 characters.