Today I finished reading The Smashing Idea Book, which I got through Amazon’s Vine programme. One of the many little pleasures of Vine is that I get to read things I would not normally have the chance to. There is no way I would fork out over £20 on a text book in a field […]
Entries Tagged as 'Design'
Smashing Logo Design
August 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on Smashing Logo Design · Life
Smashing Logo Design: The Art of Creating Visual Identities by Gareth Hardy is another book I got through Amazon’s Vine programme. Here is what I wrote about it:
Simple and Usable
November 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off on Simple and Usable · Life
I finally got round to writing a review of Simple and Usable, or to give it the full title: Simple and Usable Web, Mobile and Interactive Design by Giles Colborne. A little bit of full disclosure first: the author used one of my photos in the book, which is how I got to hear about […]
All change in West Sussex
September 13th, 2010 · Comments Off on All change in West Sussex · Life
In the same month both the West Sussex County Times and West Sussex county council have revamped their websites. The council have gone for the big band and changed their live site, while the local paper launched the new version as a beta site alongside the old one. Having said that, they quickly ditched the […]
Tags: Design·Internet·Local Papers·WSCC
Build It Up, Tear It Down
October 30th, 2008 · Comments Off on Build It Up, Tear It Down · Technology
Last week I went a little outside my comfort zone when selecting products from Amazon’s Vine programme to review and chose a software package – something called WebSite X5 which is, not surprisingly, a website creation package.  This site runs under WordPress so there is no point using another package here, but I do have […]
Big Pimpin’
August 6th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Life, Music, Technology
I have now finished (for the time being) a spot of minor tweaking and renovation of this blog: what Westwood would call pimping my blog…Â nothing major, just tidied up a few things that have been bugging me for ages.
Word Up
August 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Technology
I upgraded to WordPress 2.6 overnight.  All my little customisations seem to have survived, but if anybody spots anything acting strange let me know: I haven’t been totally exhaustive in my testing.Â
U Got The Look
July 28th, 2008 · Comments Off on U Got The Look · Life
The Argus website has had a bit of a facelift since I last looked at it and is greatly improved. Like many newspaper websites, and most local paper sites, it is a bit ‘busy’ and over-burdened with adverts and sponsored links: but that is how they make it it pay its way. Not so sure […]
Tags: Design·Local Papers
Introspection
December 20th, 2007 · Comments Off on Introspection · Technology
One last (for now) bit of navel gazing about the new look and feel of this site and then its back to waffling about football, Dr. Who, music and the manifold shortcomings of the Tories. For a start, while I was not looking, the hit counter ticked past the momentous but arbitrary 100,000 hits mark. […]
Tags: Design·Photos·Statistics·Wordpress
No Comment
December 17th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Technology
I have had a compliment or two about the new design e-mailed to me. They had to be e-mailed because apparently the comment facility doesn’t work. Oops. Sorry about that.