Archive for the 'design' Category

New free Wordpress theme - Bluebubbl

Friday, April 25th, 2008

I *think* that my new Wordpress theme is ready to be unleashed kicking and thrashing into the world. It’s called Bluebubbl and it’s a clean, two-column layout with a little jiggery-pokery in the footer to display recent comments and the like. I thought I’d make it available after using a similar design for my work […]

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css rounded corners made simple

Friday, April 25th, 2008

This one puzzled me for ages. I tried everything - transparent GIF’s, alpha-channel PNG’s and a big chisel. Then I found RoundedCornr and have never looked back!
It’s basically a web-based css rounded corner machine that does all the hard work for you, you just feed it your desired corner radius, background colour, box colour and […]

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New project - graphic design partnership

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Working in conjunction with Imagecleaver (a London-based video editing and new media company), I’ve worked on the production of a series of visual graphic design projects for companies such as Sony, Philips and 3.
The work is based around transforming hand drawn sketches into A3 Photoshop PSD files. It’s a welcome addition to the portfolio, […]

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web site design bournemouth

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Web site design in Bournemouth, Dorset is a funny old business. Firstly, it’s a great place to live; there’s several blue flag beaches, more bars and nightclubs you can comfortably shake a stick at, a couple of cinemas and even a new branch of wagamama (very Londres).
A Google search for “Web site design in Bournemouth” […]

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New site - www.bpdescitt.org.uk

Friday, October 12th, 2007

The new website for Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset East Secondary School-Centered Teacher Training is now live. The old site was a basic flat html site, with little interest to bring potential new teachers into the training course. It was decided that a complete overhaul was required, and so I began by discussing the client’s needs, […]

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The problem with nested lists

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

While working on a project for a multi-national company who are pretty strict on their web accessibility compliance, I stumbled across a problem regarding nested lists. For as long as I can recall, it’s been fine to nest a <ul> tag within a <ul> tag to produce sub navigation or secondary intented lists thus:
<ul>
<li>list […]

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