Have you ever seen a 6ft man painted top-to-toe in green body paint? How about hopping down the road like a frog? I have. It was me. And although I was one sweet corn tin away from looking like the Green Giant I was pretty impressed with myself. I had produced the best Kermit the [...]

I’ve started a social experiment on Twitter. I’m going to try and find as many people with the surname Ryland as possible. To do this I’m following Rylands across the world, trying to get them to follow back and suggest other Rylands that I’ve missed. It’s a mammoth task and definitely not going to happen over night but [...]

Have you ever used any of these fields in your WordPress user profile? ’No’ I hear you cry? Well fear no more. I’ve found a solution. If you’re familiar with the file structure of a WordPress theme then you’re looking for the function.php or custom_function.php file. Set up the custom function Copy the following code into the function.php or custom_function.php file [...]

‘Collaboration made its first appearance in 1871. Deriving from the Latin word collaborare, the word is made up of com which means with and labore which means to work. And to work with is, really, the brutally simple meaning of the word. It’s about laboring together. Work means applied effort, and effort implies a push [...]

Creativity is about original thoughts and ideas. Everyone might have them, but not many people let them grow. Ideas grow by believing in them and having confidence in them. My ideas grow because I believe in them and in myself. This comes from self-confidence which is derived by people not snubbing out my ideas. When surrounded [...]

To redesign a site with a total of over 3000 pages, documents and images is never easy. But after 4 months from initial design pitches to final development tweaks, the new Evangelical Alliance site went live without a hitch. With content varying from local good news stories to national press releases; and pages needing the [...]

Just a quick thank you to AdmireTheWeb.com for featuring my new re-design on their site. City&Wool’s new re-design is a good’un, clean and simple – @cityandwool is.gd/fBqlV9 @admiretheweb #admiretheweb — Admire The Web (@AdmireTheWeb) February 28, 2012   They have a great collection of websites so if you haven’t had a browse yet – now’s the time. [...]

Whether it’s your real name, an alter-ego or a brand name, getting the right name isn’t always easy. Blogging First year multimedia students were all encouraged to start-up a blog. This would continue throughout the three years of study and would be the way tutors would keep an eye on what we were doing. Content [...]

Taken from an interview I did with Sam Krik. As a freelance designer, can you please share with me your experiences of acquiring work through online media? I am a fond user of Twitter as a means of getting work from myself as a freelance web designer. I have custom searches set up to notify [...]

It’s easy for our portfolios to become stagnant in an ever-changing industry – and if we’re not careful we can be outdone by our competitors in falling behind. In keeping our portfolios up-to-date with a mixture of personal and client based projects we’re showing that we’re gaining skills and building an expertise. In developing these [...]