My web design and development blog posts. I’ve been a web designer for many, many years – I built my first website in Notepad (!) around 1999/2000, and have been designing websites ever since.
Here you’ll find my musings on all things web design, but if you’re after my skills as a web designer, you can work with me.
I’m adding Shopify development to my ecommerce arsenal!
There are many WordPress training providers offering courses in both Newcastle and the remainder of the UK, but is the content relevant to your business?
My web design agency, Peacock Carter, is ten years old this November. Here’s a quick look at a few of the company’s past achievements.
Being a Magento web developer puts me in a fairly small minority of web developers in the UK.
From endless Xmen jokes to sharing Magento’s love of XML, here are some of the things I’ve come across as a long term Magento developer.
This week, a 12 month web design consultancy contract I’ve been working on came to an end, and the client immediately invited me back the following week to look at renewing it for an extended period: something I’m very happy about! The train journey back from London gave me time to reflect on why I… Read more »
When you’re busy, it’s really easy to move from one design project to another quickly, and after a while I find that designer’s block sets in and I struggle to think creatively for client projects. One remedy I have found to this is to expose myself (not like that!) to other designers’ work: read a… Read more »
I gave a talk at WordPress North East last week, and have finally remembered to type up some of the notes to accompany the slides.
The talk was called A responsive workflow for WordPress theme development (catchy, I know), and was a run through of how I deal with responsive projects in WordPress at Peacock Carter.
I recently had to set emails up for a client through 123Reg and had no luck finding 123Reg’s MX records if you wanted to use your own, custom nameservers.