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: web design
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 [...]
Posted in Browsers, General, Tutorial, Website Design Also tagged adobe, browser, design, download, internet explorer, javascript, web Comments closed
New Result Group Website Launch
So it’s 4 months in on my new job and I’ve finally just launched the brand new Result Group website. It’s three solid months of development, hundreds and hundreds of tweaks, 1500+ lines of CSS and thousands more of XHTML programming and PHP. It’s built entirely by hand, no cheap CMS systems and no limitations [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Browsers, Downloads, General, University, Website Design Also tagged camera, design, download, graphic design, illustration, javascript, jquery, json, photoshop, php, powerpoint, template, University, video, web, xhtml Comments closed
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 [...]
TwiPho – Twitter Photo Search
Well, it seems I have more time on my hands than I need. Wednesday my on-line chum Matt decided he wanted to “build something”. Anything he said. He was open to suggestions. One of those was a Twitter photo search. To cut a long story short I stole by own suggestion and built it myself. [...]
Whistle Stop Tour 2009
Fancy riding 1,200 Miles across the UK starting from Lands End and finishing at John O Groats? No? Me neither! These two guys are though (Adam Fisher and Oliver Frearson) and I felt obligated to build them a website promoting their journey. It’s in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support and they are trying to raise [...]
Free XHTML Template
The other day I realised I had loads of spare web stuff lying around on my hard drive which included canned designs, unused web pages, old university assignments and old website designs (PSD’s and XHTML/CSS). Well, today I decided I’d start releasing this spare stuff online. If I’m not using it maybe someone else can [...]
How to? Basic website design using Adobe Photoshop
Please note: This tutorial is for beginners. It’s a short vague guide to push you in the right direction. I believe “learn by seeing and doing” is the best approach. Many developers struggle to use the basic tools in Adobe’s award winning software Photoshop when designing websites. It can help a lot to know some [...]
Microsoft releases IE8 Beta II, try harder!
This week sees Microsoft leave behind the IE7 which had lasted for two years, and announces the second beta of IE8, but does more effort need to be placed on getting users to actually upgrade, rather than adding another version number to the mix? According to W3.org there are more or less the same amount [...]
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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 [...]
Homepage Design: How to make an impact