The past week and a bit I’ve been a little bit busy. Well, not busy. But I’d given myself a task to do and get done in just over a week. Get my portfolio updated. This is what it was. Which is fine. It was […]
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My first website
Hey bloggers out there, you know when you get that email telling you about an exciting opportunity to join in on an amazing competition. All you have to do is write a blog post on something specific? Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. I’ve […]
Public Service Announcement – Please Say No to Sitebuilders
Last night I was online looking for the websites of some local restaurants to try and find menus, prices, etc. The usual Thursday evening. There’s a very nice looking and probably fairly upmarket Indian restaurant near me that I was trying to find a website […]
Getting my teach on – redesigning past sins with HTML5 and CSS3
In the last week of 2011 I set about redesigning my parents’ website – Casa de Rama – advertising their rental property. The original version was really very simple. I mean really simple. It didn’t have much actual design to it. Or much thought. I […]
Looking back at the start of things
After just 11 years, my oldest and dearest domain name is going to be lost to me. I purchased angel-btvs.co.uk back in the year 2000 for my very first website – Dusk ’til Dawn. It was a Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel fansite. It […]
Musing on Adobe Muse
Adobe Muse – Create websites as easily as you create layouts for print. You can design and publish original HTML pages to the latest web standards without writing code. Now in beta, Muse makes it a snap to produce unique, professional websites. The quote is […]
The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers
Every web designer who uses Adobe Photoshop should go and have a read of this site: The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers There are so many points I agree to and actively do myself. If you work in an in-house design team, like me, […]
Grid Systems – I don’t use them, should I?
Grid systems. If you’re a web designer, you’ll be aware of these. You may even use them on your projects. I’m a web designer and I have never used a grid system for any project. Should I be admitting that? Here are the three most […]
Talking myself out of backtracking on myself
I did a whole lot of doodling, scrawling and idea plotting on the weekend for my new project to redo CountryVilla-Algarve.com. I was getting all kinds of excited on my plans to do a technically challenging site – something that I could really prove myself […]