Hey, I recently had some spare time and decided to give this site a bit of an overhaul. I ended up doing more than I thought and it took a little longer than I though too. It’s still  not finished actually but the little things can wait while I start work on another (paying) project. The main things to have changed are as follows…

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Hey, I have a photography portfolio site that is 90% finished going cheap. Unfortunately (and I’m not afraid to say this) I got well and truly shafted by a client who dropped the project right at the end. Looking back it was my own fault and I have learned some valuable lessons about how I run my freelance projects. Anyways…

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I, like many other web designers these days use Wordpress as the plaform to manage and organise websites. Because of the sheer simplicity and flexibility at the core of Wordpress I find it hard to find a reason to not use it when taking on a project where the client will want to regularly update their site. Even if the client doesn’t want to update their site reugularly, Wordpress will allow them to.

The other great thing about wordpress is the ability to scale it up using things like plugins and custom fields. I recently finished  Keep reading this post…

For some reason today I’ve been skipping through lots of different apps, sites and tools to get whatever task I’m working on completed. Thought it would be worth sharing these, while I’ve got 5 minutes and describing what I used them for.

One thing to note – I am currently in work using a desktop P.C running Windows XP. I’ll do a home version of this at some point too for my mac. Okay, from the top… Keep reading this post…

I currently work at the International Baccalaureate in Cardiff. My job title is Online Media Officer, quite vague – yes, but I basically do a bit of everything. A bit of graphic design, web development, Wordpress theme development, lots of  CSS and the day to day content reviewing/update type stuff.

Sometime in the next two years though the IB is changing dramatically and my office will be closing and moving to The Hague in the  Netherlands. For personal reasons I have decided that I won’t be going. So, I’m hoping that at the end of my time at the IB I will be ready to work for a studio or agency or try out some freelancing Keep reading this post…

Hi there. This is my first ever ever ever personal blog post. I know what you’re thinking…he can’t be a real web designer if he doesn’t blog, he’s a fake!

The truth is I have never had anything worthy of blogging about. I decided long ago that I didn’t want to just write about stuff, I wanted to write about design, the web, technology. Its only now I feel that I know enough about this stuff to actually write about it. With this blog I want to be able to give MY opinion and take on things, share my knowledge and more importantly learn from the community of designers out there who will hopefully find my blog of interest. But every now and then though I might Keep reading this post…