August 24, 2006
Apologies for the down-time over the past 24 hours. I was Dugg (or is it Digged?), and felt the Effect.
Dreamhost, who took over 24 hours to even acknowledge my support request (seriously bad form fellas), have removed the throttling from my domain which resulted in the 503 errors. Everything is, fingers crossed, working OK now. Thanks for your patience.
July 25, 2006
Last week, I mentioned I was slowly drowning in a thickening quagmire of paperwork—estimates, invoices, contracts and things. I took it upon myself to design and build a system which would help sort me out, thanks to a bit of inspiration from Stan and the boys at 37signals. A week later and this little application is working rather well, even if I do say so myself.
May 10, 2006
Maybe it’s something about spring or maybe it’s the 48 hours I spent on a plane recently, but I thought it was about time I spruced this site up. Actually, the main reason goes back to @media last year when Jeremy included in his presentation a javascript image gallery. It kind of spiralled, totally out of control, from there really.
April 05, 2006
Like Jon, I’m a little late with this one.
Today is CSS Naked Day, a very cool idea by Dustin Diaz, whereby you remove your CSS to show the lovely semantic XHTML markup beneath.
February 20, 2006
Yesterday, 9rules and I parted company. It was a good relationship while it lasted, but an increased workload and the subsequent tipping of scales has meant that I can't give back to the Network what I once could. 9rules deserves more than I could give it, so I'm bowing out.
Thanks to Paul and all the 9rules members for a creating a cracking community.
January 29, 2006
I've made a couple of changes 'round these parts'. New 'of interest' links (which means you'll need to re-subscribe), a photo gallery and a new Live Search.
December 20, 2005
What a year. What. A. Year.
From launching this site, being ill and getting to meet so many new friends - it's been eventful that's for sure.
I don't really know where to start, so much stuff has happened but I'll try and be brief.
November 18, 2005
Here I am, sat on a train, stuffed full of Sushi awaiting the train to finally pull away so I can start my long trip home (about four hours depending on which signal's decide to fail). After buying my 12inch iBook in July, this is the first time I've used it in a truly mobile capacity and so far it's going well. Anyway, I'm not going to go about sushi, trains or laptops in this post. Today, I had the great pleasure of attending the 'CSS for Designers' workshop hosted by Carson Workshops in London. What a day it was.
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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.