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Terrence: The Engine Room

Hi, my name is Terrence, terrence the engine room for tweed web design you may have seen me around Murwillumbah or Tweed Heads. I'm the actual engine room for Tweed Web Design; I do all the work and Paradise Possum gets the glory. I have been involved in designing and deploying websites since early in 2003 when, fascinatied by the possibilities of the internet, I began a blog (Weblog) where the need to know a little HTML for formatting purposes precipitated my ongoing love affair with the technical side of the world wide web. As a small businessman I'm aware from experience of the many trials and tribulations of being the proprietor of a small business and created Tweed Web Design specifically to serve the needs of small business and individuals within the Tweed Shire.

Retrospective: Terrence meets the Tweed

My full name is Terrence F Kavanagh and after being born in Bathurst NSW in 1949, I grew up in Wollongong on the NSW south coast after my Dad, a fitter and turner, left his job with NSW general railways to work for BHP at Port Kembla. At school, I attended Edmund Rice College run by the Christian Brothers at Mt Keira. Outside of school hours I absolutely both loved and haunted the beaches that populate the coast of southern NSW and was constantly up to mischief of one sort or another.

My first contact with the Tweed Valley was circa April 1977 during a motorcycle tour from Sydney to Yeppoon to spend 10 days with dear friends. Accommodation overnight in Murwillumbah was in a quaint wooden hotel complete with fleas in the bed; just dessert for choosing the cheapest looking hotel in town.

Don't quote the year 1977 but I do remember seeing souvenir t-shirts on sale in a shop window proclaiming Murwillumbah as the home of a recent famous bank robbery which netted the robbers some enormous cache. In those days everything looked different, in fact the highway was paved with concrete slabs each on its own jaunty angle to the rest, but nevertheless a joy to ride a motorcycle upon.

Despite the fleas, a casual stroll around the town searching for a good breakfast the following balmy autumn morning triggered a recessive gene in this otherwise confirmed city dweller which set free a desire to return to the amazing magic that is the Tweed River Valley, then duly kicking the Honda into life; a rumbling bark, a twist of the throttle and off toward Yeppoon.

Thus, years later (1999 one of the hottest Australian summers on record) as a sole parent Hare Krishna devotee living in Adeliade, a good friend repeatedly remarked by phone that I would be happier living in Murwillumbah, then that wicked little recessive gene resurfaced, especially considering that it gave my 10 yo daughter the opportunity to grow up in a beautiful country town and we've not regretted the decision. Northern NSW is as close a facimile of heaven as anywhere on earth could entertain being.

The Phoneix Rises

As a young man, the outdoor environment was much more attractive than office work, although I did manage to survive a year of mail sorting at the Sydney GPO in Martin Place. I loved bushwalking yet creativity via music, geometric design, landscape architecture, dancing and poetry, maintained a very powerful influence over me as well. At work, usually I could be found working with a wheelbarrow, shovel, pool vacuum, or similar, in my hand, and as brickies mud man, tractor driver, gardener or pool attendant were all pleasant outdoor vocations for me we spent many a year in the tropical north of Queensland.

The years drift by and now my current office with large amounts of glass on three sides showing the surrounding leafy parkland and views of Mt Warning has become more of a necessary compromise since despite being still energetic, maintaining the physical pace I once enjoyed is less of a joy than it once was and the creative spirit in me rises in it's technical aspect, phoenix-like from the ashes of my earlier life.

Therefore, despite living life at a more subdued pace, web design provides a perfect outlet for the creative fire within, once exhibited in the tropical gardens of Cairns, nowadays creating web display in lieu of flowers, wood and stone.

At present Tweed Web Design remains essentially a one man small business, although we have an outside network of other talented individuals we know and love from the years of TAFE courses plus from within the ranks of the Dezign Devil team, to call upon to outsource artwork, photography, and general coding whenever appropriate.

Feel free to contact Tweed Web Design if you have design and/or coding skills and are interested in assisting us here as an external casual contractor.

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