November 02, 2005
Marko at mcville.net was nice enough to ask to interview me. Of course I obliged. There's some other great interviews on there, particularly fellow brits John Oxton and Simon Collison. So, go on, get yourself a nice cup of tea and have a read.
October 26, 2005
My host, Dreamhost, comes bundled with IMAP email (which is great btw. Mike explains the benefits much better than I could). SquirrelMail is Dreamhost's webmail client of choice.
For a while now, SquirrelMail has been bugging me. Now don't get me wrong, SquirrelMail is has some great features: It's stable, feature-packed, fairly configurable but BY GOD it's been beaten with the ugly stick.
October 05, 2005
That is the question.
I bought my iMac G5 almost a year ago and according to Apple's nice serial number tester thing (which now sports a nice bit of AJAX) I have exactly 19 days in which to buy Applecare if I want it.
So, do I?
October 05, 2005
Looks like the next six months is looking very busy for me - from conferences to holidays.
In November I'm off to the Carson Workshop one day workshop, "CSS for Designers" in London. It promises to be an excellent day with Molly and Andy at the helm covering topics such as 'demystifying structure' and 'CSS: Managing Design Process and Alternative Device Design', which is of particular interest to me.
They've just added a new date on the 17th with limited places available, so what are you waiting for? Book a place.
September 26, 2005
I've got to credit Andrew for pointing me in the direction of this one. The JCB Song by Nizlopi is a stunning song.
Maybe it's the mood I'm in, or maybe it's the weather, but this song got to me. I had such a stupid smile on my face when listening to it and with lyrics like:
We're holding up the by-pass,
Me and my dad having a top laugh.
I'm sitting on the toolbox and I'm so glad I'm not in school....
I'm Luke, I'm five and my dad's Bruce Lee and he drives me round in his JCB...
Genius.
Such simple lyrics about simple childhood things brought to life by a staggeringly beautiful animation by those clever chaps at Monkeehub. Kind of reminds me of Counting Crows / Radiohead / G Love and Special Sauce (the early stuff mind), with the lyrics of, errrr, Mike Skinner.
Anyway, I've bought the album, and judging by the reviews, it promises to be right up my street.
September 08, 2005
A friend of mine is planning on self-publishing a book, via a website as a downloadable pdf, and then through something like Lulu for people who want a nicely bound offering.
So, the question is Paypal. I've got as far as going through the documentation, seeing how you can set up a pay now button etc. Which then directs back to the website for downloading the file.
My question is this. How secure is that? Or rather, how secure is the page on which you can download it? What measures can I put in place to maximise security? I'm only asking because googling this just gives a list of commercial companies hell-bent on trying to sell you something.
Anyone able to shed some light on this?
August 24, 2005
That's correct, 11 days and counting. So, what's up? Well, I'm ill again and been off work now for two weeks and counting - what's up? Well, I have a very angry colon which isn't too much fun. I'm on some rather strong drugs and to be honest this site is really the least of my worries at the moment. But...
I've almost finished the latest in the grid series, which is proving to be much more than a 'Simple Step', maybe I need to rename that series eh? Either that or just make them smaller and, well, simpler. I've got some other articles in works too, one of which isn't going to be published here, but will hopefully bring some sense to wayfinding on the web and how we can draw on signage design to do that. That's something I'm really interested at the moment and will touch on semiotics (still doing the research though).
So, please do keep checking in. I've not gone, or given up, just having a bit of a rest.
June 12, 2005
Been rather busy since I got back from London - up to my eyeballs in Persona's and Application flows... But here goes the very short review.
Simon and I headed up to London on Wednesday afternoon and checked into the hotel. It was a relaxing journey right to the hotel door before we headed out for a pint and some scran before crashing early for the somewhat early start the next morning.
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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.