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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
“River Path is an organisational pathfinder. We challenge perceptions, build evidence for change, and map the future.” The refreshed design for a long-standing client, River Path, is now live. The site uses a custom-built WordPress theme and a minimal amount of plugins to ensure a speedy delivery of content. It’s a simple layout with a [...]
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
“Global Dashboard explores global risks and international affairs, bringing together authors who work on foreign policy in think tanks, government, academia and the media. It was set up in 2007 and is edited from the UK by Alex Evans and David Steven.” The refreshed design for the Global Dashbaord website has now gone live. It’s [...]
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A new client website has gone live for James Moore who runs the Travel Health Consultancy. The business is “Exeter’s foremost Travel Health specialist, providing tailor-made advice, vaccinations and support to anyone travelling abroad. Travel and adventure is only one part of your journey. Coming home to tell the story is just as important.” The [...]
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
…it’d be a pretty strange place to live! If we start by imagining that websites are buildings, then to start with only a percentage of people would create buildings properly. Some places you visit would look fluid and beautiful no matter what angle you saw them from, like a stunning piece of architecture. Other buildings [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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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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> [...]
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