It's the company I set up with the help of a few friends to create the websites we wanted to. We hope you like what we've come up with so far.
Mansized is our first site, aimed at UK men of all ages and backgrounds. My thanks to everyone who made it possible.
We hope you find Mansized useful, entertaining and a great place to hang out. We're planning many more sites so if you'd like to be part of what we're building, get in touch.
The company has got a few guiding principles:
Do no evil
Thanks to Google for our first one. We'd like to go a bit further though. We aim to do some good, whether that be in providing advice to someone in need, writing articles for groups of men who're overlooked by the mainstream press, or recommending ethical options for people who'd like to do their bit for Mother Earth. We recycle all our paper, the office runs on green electricity and we're looking into getting our servers on to the same. No hair shirts yet though :-)
Care about content
Content is king. Our sites should be effortless to use, our words should be entertaining and thought provoking and our advice needs to be as up to date and accurate as possible.
Care about our readers
If one reader leaves our sites not able to get the advice they need or the experience they deserve, then we've failed. We actively encourage feedback via email and message boards and give every reader a considered reply.
Keep innovating
The web's moving fast and we intend to play our part. If we find a new technology that will enhance the lives of our readers we'll launch it as soon as we're able.
Build everything from scratch
We don't believe it's possible to satisfy our readers and keep innovating by cobbling together bits of free code found on the web and the odd licenced system here and there. Hence we created our very own CMS, tagging and message board system, the Soma Engine. If you'd like to use our 21st century platform for your site then get in touch.
Let me know what you think about our sites. Anytime. Feel free to email me at will@mansized.co.uk with your thoughts and suggestions.
Best wishes,
Will Callaghan
Editor, mansized.co.uk
Owner, Soma Digital Ltd
