Branded07 gets its first feature!

About 2 months ago I received a dubious email from a gentleman claiming to work at .Net Magazine. He asked me if it would be ok to publish a feature on my site… Now at the time, Branded07 was just kicking off and I had barely started getting my first visitors. Me being sceptical and all, didn’t really believe it.

Well I made the top 20!

Thats right, I have been selected in the WP Freedom Blog coolest Wordpress blog top 20! I would like to thank everyone who came on my site and wished me luck for the competition, it was really great to hear so many people liking my work and wishing me the best.

Designers are renewing my love of Flash

It was quite some time back that I fell out of love with Flash. I was really pushing for accessibility with the design and build of my sites, and Flash just didn’t quite sit right with me and what I was aiming to achieve, so I near enough dropped it completely from my designs.

There are so many nice lightweight Javascript frameworks now a days, mootools, jquery, scriptaculous to name a few, that allow us to do so many nice effects that once were only possible with Flash. Fading buttons, gallerys, slides and so on can now all be achieved by a much more accessible route.

Wordpress Coolest Blog Competition

Yesterday I was invited to submit my site to be entered into the Wordpress Freedom Blog competition, so I thought hell! Why not! What have I got to lose anyway? It is a competition based around cool Wordpress blog designs so I will be up against a tough crowd! I know myself from trolling around a whole host of design galleries that there are some beautiful blog designs out there.

Create a Simple Pond Ripple in Photoshop

I have been having a lot of positive comments over the past few months regarding my website footer design and the pond ripple used on the water. It is actually very simple to create with only a couple of design steps in photoshop. The following tutorial will show how it is created and offer a couple of examples for its use!