New design launched

October 15th, 2009

Why you may ask? Well as much as I loved my previous blog design I have much more experience using Wordpress since I built that and it had become unmanageable to update. Instead of using pages for my portfolio and having to upload new items via ftp each time I wanted to be able to post portfolio items into a portfolio category, and the same thing with my DJ mixes. read more »

New football blog design launched

August 6th, 2009

I was asked by http://www.kevincoleman.ie/ if I would be interested in designing a football based blog based around articles, opinions and news. I jumped at the chance to get involved and came up with the design below. read more »

My personal VCard/Links Site

August 6th, 2009

Being heavily influenced by Tim Van Damme's personal links site I wanted to try something similiar, but with a much heavier focus on Graphic Design. After having a chat with Mike at Carsonfied on the Carsonified tour we were both in agreement that Graphic Design is almost becoming like the forgotten artform on the web, and we really need to go back to pushing the boundaries of what is possible. read more »

Some recent work bits…

May 10th, 2009

Just a little update on some the recent bits I have been up to. Never really seem to get the time to update this blog anymore! read more »

Photo montage with Safari/Chrome/Webkit, JQuery and Flickr…

November 15th, 2008

This only works in Safari and Chrome There is no doubting how powerful Webkit is, some of the new CSS selectors it provides make it a breeze to do certain things that would have normally required a sea of div's, javascript or Flash to make them work. read more »

Writing multiple toggle links in JQuery

October 18th, 2008

I was just working with this so thought I would write and quick a quick blog post about it. It was covered a bit on http://www.learningjquery.com/2006/09/slicker-show-and-hide but hidden in the comments so I though I would bring it out for all to see. Thanks to Scott for the original explanation. read more »

New features added to site – Iphone compatible, Brightkite plugin, new weekly logo

July 20th, 2008

I have had a busy couple of days getting some new bits ready for this site and learning a lot in the process. The main bulk of work has gone into getting the site Iphone compatible, choosing to keep this to just the blog at the moment I will open up the other areas once I can get the loading times down concerning the images. I have added a bunch of resources at the bottom of this post that I used. read more »

Andy Clarke CSS Workshop –
Progressive Enhancement

May 14th, 2008

We have just hit lunchtime in this and I am really enjoying it. Andy Clarke is a great presenter/host and knows his stuff so its always a great learning workshop. read more »

Semantically built lists, who needs divs????

April 29th, 2008

I thought I would go over the design for this page and how the Step-by-step guide to writing a review was built. read more »

CSS Frameworks/Reset

April 28th, 2008

I find this quite an interesting subject at the moment, there seems to be two contrasting views to what works well and it was brought up again at the Future of Web Design in both the conference talk by Jon Hicks and mentioned briefly by Jina Bolton and Andy Clarke in Jina's workshop on CSS. I am someone that comes from the school of liking to reset all my styles. read more »