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How to Hire a Web Designer

May 31, 2005

A good article at Site Point on some of the things you should be considering when looking for a Web Designer .

Other than me of course.

Filed under Website design industry

Well written words

May 10, 2005

The Woman of Words needed a website to help her find some freelance work.

The site is about as plain vanilla as they come but my rationale was that when you are promoting someone who works with content their site should be as transparent as possible to ensure that nothing detracts from such content.

Incidentally the site is the exact same markup as this one, just with a different stylesheet attached. Not anymore.

Filed under Projects

Xylescope

May 9, 2005

Xylescope has been designed and developed for looking underneath the surface of web pages as you surf the web - it couldn’t be easier. Using Xylescope you can look forward to analysing complex CSS designs with incredible ease and experimenting with third-party sites, without having to download them onto your own computer first.

Xylescope - very handy indeed.

Filed under Website design industry

Random articles

WE04 Conference in Sydney - Day two and beyond

October 9, 2004

Day Three
Wonder Woman was my tour guide for the day so we had breakfast in the Queen Victoria Building before heading to have a look at the Harbour Bridge and Opera House. The weather was cloudy but it did not take too long for the sun to come out which made the day considerably warmer. [...]

Software that makes my life easier

February 5, 2005

In the last few months I have come across some nice pieces of software that have made my life just that little bit easier. I might as well share them.

Quicksilver : You will hardly ever use the dock on OSX again
Synergy: OSX and XP become one… sort of
Synergy: Not the same as above. iTunes plugin [...]

New website for National Publishers in Canberra

February 19, 2008

A new site I designed for National Publishers recently went live.
Melissa wrote some of the words while I looked after the visual design, HTML/CSS, and a customised content management system that allows the client to make updates to the websites themselves.