Posts Tagged ‘Web Design’

  • Site Focus: Three.co.uk

    Recently, Three.co.uk (the mobile and broadband provider) got a big facelift and had their website redesigned. In this article I describe key elements of this redesign.

  • Site Focus: Jon Brousseau

    We often think that websites must have flashy animations or “Web 2.0″ style graphics. It is often overlooked that some of the most beautiful designs are the simple ones.

  • Off to Strawberry Street

    After 2 years of working with the guys at Save9, it has come to the time in my life where I need to progress with my career and move on to bigger and better things. As of the backend of May I will be a web designer/developer at Strawberry, in Hull. I did get a [...]

  • Site Focus: Woodend Creative Workspace

    The building in which I work (for Save9), Woodend Creative Workspace, recently had a bit of a facelift for its website. The work was undertaken by Colour Creation, one of its many tenants.

  • Site Focus: Line25

    Line25 is a web design blog written by Chris Spooner (I’m sure many of you in the web design industry will have heard of this cheeky chappy). The main focus points of this design blog is to give ‘inspiration to web creatives’.

  • Inspiration vs. Theft

    Some people will have you believe that theft in design is ok, because all ideas come from somewhere else. How can that be the case? Where do original designs come from? Sure, some designs can evolve from studying natural form, but the best designers and artists out there just have a creative mindset that allows [...]

  • BarCamp Scarborough Talk

    Digital Scarborough is presenting BarCamp Scarborough in a few days time. This is an event loosely based on the principles of BarCamp, looking for people from the world of business and people studying all aspects of computing and digital media to come along and discuss issues and raise ideas with like-minded people.
    This event is [...]

  • Getting British Business Offline

    On Thursday 25th February, an initiative (from Google, Enterprise UK, BT, e-skills UK and Enterprise UK) launched a web service called Getting British Business Online (GBBO). But what’s so bad about this?

  • Tweaking Monster

    I got one of those emails from Monster.co.uk, telling me about all the latest IT jobs that were available – none of which matched, because it was an out of date C.V. So. I updated my profile, and that’s where it started to go downhill.

  • Leave it to the Professionals

    There are so many more reasons you should consult a professional to create your online presence. What do you think sets apart professional web designers from every other Tom, Dick and Harry who happens to have a copy of Photoshop?

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I am a Scarborough (England) based web designer who specialises in creating attractive and usable websites. I currently work for Save9 Ltd. and also do freelance work in my spare time. I have been designing websites since the age of 15. So that's 7 years of web design experience. Read more about Simon Wilans.

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