My latest Squarespace website project was a site makeover for nu funk record label Boogie Boutique. Having already created and managed their website with the Squarespace platform, they wanted me to give the site a fresh new look with a bit more polish and design flair than their existing site had. My job was to [...] Read More
My lovely and rather clever client Helen from Where There’s Smoke contracted me to help her showcase the work that they do in a fun, engaging way on their website. Rather than just telling in words what they do, how they do it, why and for whom, we worked up a tabbed slideshow which uses [...] Read More
Recently I was contacted by Sarah Louise Dix, a rather chic couture upholsterer and designer of stunning bespoke furniture. Like many small businesses/sole traders, Sarah had a website which had been created by a friend, and she got in touch because her friend was no longer able to update the site. Although she initially wanted [...] Read More
Now that the internet as we know it has been around a while, you’d think that people would have stopped making truly horrible, un-usable, unreadable and downright ridiculous websites. You’d THINK that, but you’d be wrong. The aptly named Webpages That Suck has pulled together their top 25 worst websites of 2010, which is a [...] Read More
One of the things I love the most about my life as a self-employed freelancer is the variety of work I get to do. Having spent most of the last year working with a longstanding client on a large-scale SEO project, it was really rewarding to get to flex my design skills – not only [...] Read More
This year Diamond Light Source (the UK’s rather fancy and very shiny synchrotron scientific facility) is exhibiting at The Royal Society’s Summer Science exhibition, and they decided they’d like a microsite to help educate people about the talks they will be giving at the exhibition, as well as keeping the dialogue going with visitors, reporting [...] Read More
My latest website overhaul project is for Hackney’s youth charity, Off Centre. They are a lovely organisation which helps young people who live, work or study in Hackney deal with issues such as violence, depression, neglect, sexual health, family breakdown and all the other things that can have such a huge and lasting impact on [...] Read More
As it’s Friday, here’s a little chuckle to welcome in the weekend: Remember the heady days of the 90s, when everyone suddenly jumped onto this new-fangled internet thing, and created multi-coloured, flashing, clashing web pages that would make your grandmother’s eyeballs fall out? Wish you could relive those days now? Well the good news is [...] Read More
My latest client WordPress site may look clean & simple, but there’s a lot under the hood. Visual Seating is a new service which offers theatre-goers the ability to ‘test-drive’ seats before booking tickets. They can click on any seat in the theatre’s seating plan, and see a real photographic view of the stage from [...] Read More
Well, at the January NetTuesday I managed to build a pretty decent-looking website live, in 33 minutes. The lovely Amy from NetSquared has uploaded some video of the presentation, and the videos of the actual website build will be coming soon, I’m told. But in the meantime, you can have a look at the slides [...] Read More