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Web Designer Magazine workshop feature

May 12th, 2010

web designer mag feature

I recently built the frontend & Wordpress backend for Cherished Trinkets, a handmade jewellery shop & blog; beautifully designed by Mark.

Web designer Magazine contacted Mark as they had seen the site and wanted to feature it in a “web workshop” section of the magazine.

The article gives practical advice to help people create some of the elements on the homepage including the drop down menu’s and javascript image viewer. Also features a short interview with Mark about the design and some great comments on the site design and functionality :)

Emma Watson makes FWA public shortlist

May 1st, 2010

Awards, Features, Front end, Javascript, Web development

I was lucky enough to work on the Emma Watson official site along with my colleges at great fridays, Manchester. I worked on the front end, XHTML slideshow & dynamic page scaling/re-sizing.

The site was greatly received by all the Emma fans with thousands of messages in the first few days of going live. Although the site is primarily XHTML we submitted to FWA and after a week of public voting, Emma Watson has made it to the public short list! Very exciting stuff, for more info view the site on FWA here :)

Wharariki Beach is FWA photo of the day!

April 5th, 2010

Awards, Features, Photography

This years good friday was made a little bit more special when I got my first ever FWA photo of the day!

For any one who doesn’t know about the FWA photo of the day site here is a some info from the site:

“FWA has been showcasing creativity online since May 2000 and has reached over 50 million visits to date. FWA photo is a dream showcase for us and we hope you will join us in enjoying one amazing photograph every day of the year”

Penguin couple in the Telegraph

March 13th, 2010

Features, Photography

After the story has been in the mail, I later found out on Twitter that the story was featured in the Telegraph online. It was pretty cool following all the comments on Twitter, with in an hour or so there where several hundred tweets to the article.

The article also made 31, 000 hits on stumble upon and nearly 500 digs.

Here is the origional shot on my flickr, where the shot was discovered:

Penguin couple on the mail homepage

March 12th, 2010

Features, Photography

I was recently approached by an agency regarding my penguin couple photo taken at Chester Zoo last year. They wanted to interview me and create a story about the photo and how I was able to capture the penguins preparing for “perfect picture”! I had no idea what paper’s the story would be featured in and I was amazed to see my photo on the homepage of the Mail onine :)

You can see the full article here.

My smashing desktop wallpaper

March 2nd, 2010

Features, Photography

I created a desktop wallpaper titled “Escaping Winter” from one of my New Zealand photos. It is available for download from the Smashing Magazine site here :)

I hope you enjoy it!