About Me
My names Mark. I'm a web designer & developer based in the Yorkshire area working in Sheffield, Barnsley, Rotherham and Leeds. But that's not the full extent of what I do. I work with many different technologies and people and love things outside the web including photography, print, stationery and graphics. Get in touch and let's speak.
Tag Archives: design
Business Card design, how to do it right!
We’ve all been there, with an opportunity to impress only to fail by handing out a scrappy piece of paper with your name and number on. Is anyone likely to find that piece of paper again once they’ve put it down? Are they likely to pass it along to another potential client? Or are they [...]
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Homepage Design: How to make an impact
Yesterday I launched the brand new homepage of my portfolio. It was a long time in the making trying to get everything looking good and now I’m going to explain the reasons behind the design, how I came to it and how you can apply the same techniques.
My Top Ten Web Designer Resources
If your a seasoned web developer your going to want to follow some great resource sites. I myself have quite a large list of RSS feeds in my Outlook but here are my top ten with plenty of resources, freebies and tips…I will however feature 5 “biggies” and 5 “smallies” if that makes any sense [...]
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Developing for multiple browsers *sigh*
I know it’s unfortunately the “taboo” of modern website design, but many developers don’t want to simply leave their IE7 visitors and IE6 visitors in the dark. It’s fine for sites like this one, or for web applications but what about corporation websites? For sites that HAVE to support older/alternative browsers. This came to light [...]
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Free Cool Wallpaper for download
I’ve been toying with Photoshop filters and different colours lately for a project at work and decided that what I created was good enough as a wallpaper! Therefore I am now announcing for download “Funkydory“. A very colourful and stylised background for your computer in many different screen resolutions. Just pick yours from the list [...]
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University is over! (for a year anyway)
So University is done and dusted for 2009. I won’t be returning until September 2010 which makes for a nice break. In the end I got my grades (A,A,B,B,B,C) which I was very happy with. To top all this off I thought I’d showcase some of the work I did to receive these grades. Visual [...]
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New design for a new career
Well, the 1st June saw me start my new job as Innovations Web Developer at Result Group in Elland. I decided that to mark the occasion I’d start by going crazy with my on-line development. It has seen me redesign the Arctic Monkeys Fansite, build a brand new website for Cliffe Kennels, build a Twitter/Twitpic/img.ly/yfrog [...]
The things that annoy me about iPhone 3.0
Don’t get me wrong, the new updates for the iPhone are a much needed modification for the device. Cut/Copy & Paste, Tethering and MMS are all things which should (in my opinion) have been on the phone from the very first incarnation. These things were standard on even the most basic of modern phones. Apple [...]
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10 Web Design NO NO’s
The web has changed a lot and web designers (of all people) know about the need to keep up to date with the latest design “trends”. This short 10 point guide will hopefully help some people understand the minor problems website design (and content) brings when being viewed by a potential customer. Pointless Flash Animation [...]
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Welcome to our brand new blog!
We are currently in the process of writing and building our blog. We hope to feature an extensive array of tutorials, tips, tricks and other amazing things related to Javascript, XHTML, CSS, PHP and Motor racing :) If you have any ideas on what you would like to see on this blog in the coming [...]
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