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Simple WordPress 404 Page
404 pages are a great way to make your website that little bit more user-friendly. If you change the location or slug of one of your pages, then search engines and other websites may still send your...
View ArticleFree WordPress Workshop – Nov 2011
After the success of last month’s workshop on my favourite Content Management System; WordPress, I will be repeating the event at the end of this month. The workshop is in association with Striding...
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Co-working in Liverpool and Manchester
Earlier in the year I wrote an article about the benefits of working outside of the house / flat for the self-employed. In the article I discussed working from places like coffee shops and...
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Responsive Showcase
After seeing the term ‘Responsive Web Design’ cropping up all over my Twitter feed for the last year or so, I thought I best get clued up on the topic so I can keep up with the times. Which was a good...
View ArticleCheck Out My Interview on Design Juices
@JThompsondesign kindly gave me an interview / feature on his design community; www.designjuices.co.uk. The interview covers all aspects of my freelance career, design passion as well as some other...
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One Shade of Grey
One matter that so many designers seem to ignore is how well their chosen colour palette will display across a variety of devices. I find it’s particularly easy for Mac users to make this mistake,...
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Old School Design Work: 2005 – 2007
Okay people, I’ve decided to turn back time and put together a few samples of some of my really old design work! Well if you can call it that anyway. A lot of it is quite nasty on the eyes as it is...
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Creative Liverpool Presents Creative Process (@_creativelpool)
One of the many creative shindigs I like to visit is Creative Liverpool that takes place on the first Thursday of each month at Elevator Bar in Liverpool. The events are like really casual networking...
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tDR: Car Booty Affair Exhibition (Photos of My Visit)
Artwork for the likes of Warp Records, Gatecrasher, Coca-Cola, Wip3out, The Orb, L.F.O and tonnes of other pant-wettingly sexy shit from The Designers Republic.I first heard about The Designers...
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Pro-Bono Work for Creatives & Charities
If you work in a creative field or none-profit and are after some kind of design work then you may be in luck! As I’m currently seeking some pro-bono work to enhance my portfolio a little.In other...
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Tips for Designers Going Freelance: Part 1 (My Story)
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost 3 years since I went freelance as a web designer full time. Having said that, it’s only within the last 6 months or so where I feel like I’m actually at a stage...
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Tips for Designers Going Freelance: Part 2 (Hints & Tips)
Right now I’m thinking I should have started the titles of these articles with a word other than ‘Tips’, as I now have the same word twice in the title… but never mind.In case you missed it, be sure to...
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Shillington Winter 2012 Manchester Graduate Show
I’ve recently been researching Shillington College an awful lot recently as I’m strongly considering studying part time at their Manchester college as of September 2013.Here are my snaps from the...
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Book Review: Graphic Style: From Victorian to New Century
I feel like I’ve neglected my blog a little in recent months after a very bloggy period over the Christmas / New Year season… nevermind though, as this will be a first for my blog; a review! I thought...
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Business Directory Website for Sale
It’s served me well over the last few years but I’m starting to think it’s time to part with my beloved directory website as I no longer have the time to dedicate to it.What You Will Get1200+ company...
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Scribbles #01
I’ve been getting reacquainted with drawing lately as I’m keen to improve my illustration abilities, I like the idea of incorporating it into some design work at some point. I used to like drawing as a...
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The Strangest Thing About Working for Yourself
I’ve mentioned in one or two blog posts in the past about how it felt really bizarre when I first starting earning money for my own freelance jobs, in the sense that I realised I could actually earn a...
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Scribbles #02: Bendy People
A follow up to some drawings I posted recently, this time I’ve been practicing drawing the human figure a bit more. I found that Google didn’t bring up many interesting results of images to draw when I...
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Free WordPress: How-to Guide
Below is a guide I have typed up to show people how to use WordPress to manage the content on their websites. I’ve created a lot of how-to guides in the past for my own clients to show them how to...
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Scribbles #03: Dancers
I’ve been crazy busy in recent months working on my portfolio as well as redesigning / building my new website… juggling both of these with client work as well as life in general has meant me being a...
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