Digital Blah Blah

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?