holy hell. okay - here's the skinny, i was looking at the front page reader ads on the coast star and this boob here placed an ad for his web business.
eh... so... now i have to seriously get cracking on a redesign of my portfolio site because this kid is now horning in on my territory.
i thought it'd only be fair of me to write him an email saying:
"Hi there. Not for nothing, but you really ought to spell check your website."
why i don't know - should have let people see his site and have the slack-jawed look of horror and disbelief (like i did) at the spelling errors that were in 16pt type on his homepage - not to mention in the dropdown menus - and the "sites" that were designed by him...
and in doing a little more investigative work, it seems that only one of the sites is legit (or actually isn't his other business or a friend of his.) i have to let it go and focus on my own site.
bloody hell. i've been putting the "free" in freelance for far too long.

