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Category Archives: Web Design

5 Things to Consider When Starting a Website or Web Project

There are many ways to fail when launching a new website. Just as anything else in life, the Internet is a massive place and you are just a tiny speck on one of billions of radars.
The trouble starts when you, being so close to your own project, see your website as much more than it [...]

What Makes a Good Web Designer?

Being one, I often ask that question to myself and others. What qualities, skills and abilities must one have if they are to be a “good” web designer?
Lets ask a few people.
Joe Bloggs – Programmer Extraordinaire
Q: What do you think makes a good web designer?
A: A good web designer is one who makes websites simple, [...]

Free CSS Template: Wordsworth 3

Introducing Wordsworth 3 – the third in the Wordsworth CSS templates series.
This template is for any website that uses a lot of text. The point of it is to display text in a beautiful and simple way, with clean key lines and crisp edges.
I’ve worked hard to create a fully-legible website with little clutter and [...]

Dealing With Clients and Overcoming Telephone Anxiety

It was almost a year ago that I started working for MintTwist, a web design company in London. My role when I started was to code up websites that were designed by the lead designer and lend a hand to any design odd-jobs that needed doing.
As the year has progressed I have been entrusted with [...]

BBC News Web Site: How I’d Have Done It…

An ambitious challenge if ever there was one. I set myself the task of re-creating the BBC News Web site.
My first point would be that I don’t want to create something that is completely different. I just wanted to do something that, had I been asked to re-create the site, would make an impression.
The BBC [...]

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    Doctor Who - New series starts in Spring 2010