I’ve worked with Jamie now for over two years, in which time I’ve found him to be an extremely valuable team member and somebody I can trust implicitly to get the job done to the right standard.

David Williams – Creative Director, Men's Digital, Bauer Media

Yours Dating

Yours Dating

www.yoursdating.co.uk

Yours Dating needed a refresh to their design. The problem was that people were coming to the site but were not engaged long enough to pay and register. I came up with a fresh new design using a clean pastel colour palette that worked well for the brand and the audience age range.

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Email Boilerplate

Email Boilerplate

Posted in Blog, Home on Nov 8, 2011 | No Comments

I’ve just come across this really handy tool that helps you put together beautiful, cross platform HTML newsletters. If like me you’ve had difficulties getting it looking exactly right in all clients then this should help you. The interface is fantastic, you click on the desired email client you are having difficulties with and it [...]

FHM Shortlisted for three AOP awards

FHM Shortlisted for three AOP awards

Posted in Blog, News on Apr 27, 2011 | No Comments

FHM has been shortlisted for Product Team of the year at the AOP awards 2011. If we win then David Williams (Creative Director), Andrew Howell (Development Team Lead), Mani Manivannan (Developer) and myself will be collecting the award. Fingers and toes crossed! FHM has also been short listed for Best Consumer Website and Consumer Editorial [...]

Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer

Posted in Blog on Apr 11, 2011 | No Comments

This is my first post using Windows Live Writer, which is basically a glorified FCK editor.  It has a very similar layout to Word so people will feel right at home when posting to their blog. If like me you’re using WordPress, WLW downloads the theme to the application, so it’s like writing live to [...]

Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator

Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator

Posted in Blog on Apr 11, 2011 | No Comments

CSS driven gradients are becoming more popular since their recent introduction.  However getting the syntax right can be a tricky and time consuming process. Not anymore thanks to this nifty little tool from ColorZilla. Just use the colour selector and photoshop style slider to produce the gradient you want and all the CSS is generated [...]

Counterproductive #2

Counterproductive #2

Posted in Blog on Apr 8, 2011 | No Comments

It’s the end of another week, so here is another round-up of daily distractions. Khan Academy A really innovative approach to education. Students can make use of our extensive video library, practice exercises, and assessments from any computer with access to the web. Useful JavaScript and jQuery Tools, Libraries, Plugins A nice round-up of JQuery [...]