Crunch
28/09/09
We all seem to blog when we are p*!sed off with something or want to tell everyone how great we are. This post is nothing to do with me, Digital Blah Blah or anything I am p*!ssed off with. Its simply to recommend Crunch (my accountants) to any freelancers or small businesses.
Crunch have made doing my accounts really simple and weirdly fun. In a way I guess I am a bit p*!ssed off because I wish I had thought of it.
Rubbish update
28/09/09
This month I have been…
- building ‘Fresh‘ a lovely new website (going live soon)
- working on a project for Unity PR
- helping Music with digital stuff for some football team
- working on stuff I’m not allowed to talk about… but might be able to soon… maybe.
- wasting time on Twitter!
Next month I hope to post a decent update on this blog, this one’s rubbish! Sorry…
Realtime UK
17/08/09
Its been absolute pleasure to develop the new website for awesome CG animation studio Realtime UK.
Bank of America
15/08/09
I have been busy working over at Bank of America HQ in Chester for a good few months now. As well as drinking a ridiculous amount of Relentless with designer Andy Leigh I have been building the new Bank of America UK website which has just launched.
Music
27/07/09
I’m really pleased to have just built the new website for design agency Music. The launch today coincides with their cover and feature in August’s Creative Review.
Welsh Food Festival 2009
22/07/09
Festivals are great, well most of them anyway… some are pretty stupid. A good festival is definitely the Welsh Food Festival – lots of tasty food and drink. great location and with a bit of luck some sunny Welsh weather.
If you fancy a bit of the action then take a look at the new website, designed by Wish Creative and built by Digital Blah Blah.
Ultimate freelance job!
01/07/09
When recently asked by guys at IRIS Manchester if I could help out with the build of a site they were working on I politely declined due to my already busy month. Luckily I did say:
” by the way… what site was it?”…
they said: “WonderBra”
Naturally I found some time.
UltimateStrapless.co.uk has just launched and is the place to find out about a very clever new bra.
Never help a designer with their own website…
11/06/09
That’s what people have always told me, but I’ve just finished building a new portfolio website for designer Adam Rix and it’s been nothing but fun!
I really enjoyed working with Adam while at LOVE and think his work’s ace, so I jumped at the chance to build his new website. It had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that in return he had offered to design me a new logo. ; )
It’s has been live for a day now, already attracted a huge amount of traffic, I’m happy, Adam is happy and everything is awesome.
Blah Blah Blah
19/05/09
It’s been a very busy (but fun) first few weeks for Digital Blah Blah. During the day I have been over in Chester helping the lovely guys and girls (over 5000 of them) at Bank of America with some digital projects. I have also been building a fancy new extranet for my friends at The Neighbourhood and a little wedding website for my friend Stu.
Next month is looking just as exciting, I have recently been commissioned by RealTime to build their new website, which if I can stop being distracted by the internet will be going live in the next couple of months. I am also hoping to update my blog with my recently finished Digital Blah Blah brand, more on that in a week or so.
Right, time to stop waffling and do some invoicing.
The Neighbourhood Extranet
17/04/09
I have recently built a little app for animation studio The Neighbourhood. Its a really simple little extranet for them to upload videos of work for clients to see. Its a ‘client only’ app so I can’t link to it, but you can see a video of some of the features here.
Photoshop Design Template
15/04/09
There is probably a million of these already, but anyway… I have finally got round to updating my Photoshop Website Design Template with the latest browsers. It has the main PC and Mac Browsers at three resolutions – 800×600, 1024×768 and 1280×960, sorted into separate folders and layers.
The idea is you use the ‘design’ folder to store the design layers in, and can easily see how it will look at the different resolutions and within the different browsers. Within the ‘designs’ folder are the basic structure of a website e.g. header, main, footer etc
If you think you might find this useful you can download a copy here.
Surf Anywhere
14/04/09
Working alongside Honey Communications we have just launched the Surf Anywhere microsite for Calypso and the British Surfing Association. Matt Booth AKA Flash Temple took care of the design and flash, and I built the backend/admin system.
The website encourages users to design a surf board and submit it to the gallery for the chance to win a street surf board, so if you get a spare 5 mins why not have a go?
It’s all happening now!
03/04/09
It’s been a very busy month getting everything organised, but it’s looking good! And I can finally tick the last box with my first confirmed booking!
Back of the net!
Just got my first enquiry…
15/03/09
I only announced I was leaving LOVE on Friday, with a quick update of my LinkedIn profile, come Saturday morning I have had my first enquiry from an old client who has now moved jobs. Hopefully more will come soon!
The client wanted to know what services I would be offering as a freelancer, so as well as responding to him I thought I had better stick it on my blog.
As anyone who has worked with me will know I’m pretty flexible in what I can do and will get stuck into pretty much anything, but the main things I’m looking to offer are:
Frontend Development
- Clean and precise XHTML/CSS
- JavaScript (JQuery, Prototype etc)
Backend Development
- Experience of a range of PHP MVC Frameworks including the amazing CakePHP
Information Architecture
- Wireframes, Interactive Prototypes, Functional Specification etc
- My tool of choice is AXURE, but I’m more than happy to work with OmniGraffle, Visio etc
The other side of my service is… I’m looking to take entire web projects from companies maybe without the technical capability, possibly lack of internal resource or looking to save some money and take care of them. I have buillt up a HUGE list of amazing freelancers covering a wide range of skills and can easily put a great team together to get any job done. With the current doom and gloom I think this is an interesting proposition, we’ll see.
So thats what I’m looking to do, I guess I’m going to have to stick some examples of my work on here at some point soon.
It was meant to be just a blog
13/03/09
Simple blah blah about digital things. But it seems that digitalblahblah.com had bigger plans for me, and is to become my new venture.
Having spent the last 11 years at the most ‘love’-able digital agencies around, I have had the good fortune to work for some great clients with a talented bunch of people. Its now time for me to get out there and become the worlds newest digital hobo. Who knows what will happen?
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