September 29, 2004
Everything about returning from holiday is rubbish. From the packing to the checking in. No matter how quick your flight it always seems to take at least six hours travel time (in Europe anyway). Why is that?
September 14, 2004
Doug Bowman, of Stopdesign has gone back to the coloured version of his site (personally I liked liquid bleach). He’s added a Style-switcher, but he’s done it in a better way than those obscure, unlabelled buttons you see floating around. He’s added a preferences page where the user can choose their layout of choice and the results are cookied. Also, which is rather nice, the base text size is also cookied.
Firefox PR1.0 is out. Firefox was already a good browser in it’s beta stages. This release is simply the best browser on the mac at the moment. Very quick, stable and packed with useful functionality. This release see’s RSS being present now as Live Bookmarks, cool idea and stops me having to open my rss application to go through my feeds. If a site has RSS, a little icon appears, I bookmark it from there and that’s it!
August 22, 2004
Update: Slight changes to the design, some problems with the old design. Mac Ie stylesheet deleted until I can get it to work properly.
Here it is, my new site.
As you can see a lot of changes have happened. In fact a (near) complete redesign has taken place. Only the journal remains pretty much intact (data wise). Everything else you see is brand spanking new. In fact I can’t quite believe it myself.
A year in the planning and designing and two months in the making. It’s been a great learning experience, even if it’s one I wont be repeating the near future.
I still have tons to do, such as populating the portfolio with old and new work. In the meantime you can still look at the old portfolio here .
A more detailed post will follow this shortly regarding the redesign. Until then, feel free to have a look around.
June 12, 2004
Well here I am, sitting at an iMac, it’s 6.45pm and still 80 degrees. Malaysia is very nice indeed or should I say this hotel is very nice indeed.
The wedding was great, the reception was great, and no doubt the presents will be great when we get back from a great honeymoon. The new Snooch site has been bubbling away in the background and this time away has helped me cement a few ideas.
Stopdesign has been redesigned and it’s funny how similar Dougs redesign, I mean the core message and IA, mirrors my ideas for Snooch - Ie, less importance on Blog and more importance on Portfolio. Also Articles and Speaking dates feature highly too. Not sure what the graphic design will be just yet, but I want this to be the last redesign I do for a while as i’ve got loads of content to plugh into MovableType so it’s in a form I can use in the future. Hopefully the winning plugin in the MT plugin competition will take the form of a easy way to add fields to an entry. We’ll see.
Anyhow, i’m alive and well in Malaysia. Enjoying the sun and being a Husband.
May 27, 2004
Doug Bowman is in the process of redesign. I say process because he hasn’t quite finished yet. Interesting debate about design and redesign has started as a result.
Pixel Perfect Digital is a site with loyalty free imagery available for download at pretty high resolutions. Nicely categorised, although the images are your typical stock variety.
May 25, 2004
A simple, but extremely useful, breakdown of the latest blogging software. It includes free and expensive software, from MT to Expression Engine.
May 25, 2004
Allofmp3.com are offering a gigs worth or music downloads for $10. You can specify codec & bit-rate from a HUGE collection of music. I’m going to update all my vinyl and tape collection so I can get it all on my ipod. Very, very nice indeed.
May 24, 2004
Who’s the daddy? Helvetica/Arial quiz.
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I'm a graphic designer from near Cardiff in the UK. I've been a designer for over ten years now and primarily work on the web. I'm still partial to a bit of print every now and then though. I used to work for Agency.com in London as an Art Director before working as a Senior Designer for the BBC in sunny Cardiff. This was all before I took leave of my senses and formed my own design consultancy, Mark Boulton Design Ltd.
I've got a thing about grids and typography and occasionally ramble on about them to anyone who will listen.
If you're after simple, clean and effective web design; let me know.