Have you checked the media attribute?
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After a couple of days locked away in the office after work I’ve relaunched one of the first websites I built and designed.

Jamie launched his counselling and psychotherapy company back when I was first starting out in the web business in 2009. Three years later it was high time to revisit and spruce up the site.
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Sass and Compass are great tools to help you write scalable, maintainable CSS, however it is admittedly a little tricky to get up and running in a Windows environment. This post aims to help you get going.
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One of my all time favourite Family Guy gags in typographic poster form:

Some recent logo design work for the super fashion label Brat & Suzie

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Having geek-out fun watching Batman cartoons and designing a noir/deco style logo for the Penguin’s hangout…

Microsoft has finally released Internet Explorer 9 to the word today, hopefully instigating a final push to banish its despicable older brother, Internet Explorer 6, forever (China – 34.5% of you still using IE6? Get with the program!)

A word of advice to those using jQuery 1.5 though, upgrade to to 1.5.1 for some timely IE9 specific bug fixes.

One of the most beautiful-looking websites of recent times, Web Designer Wall, has been redesigned. Sad to the see the old design go – when I first stumbled across the site a couple of years back it really opened my eyes as to what was possible with web design and inspired me in a number of my early designs. For my money, Web Designer Wall was the best of the handcrafted/watercolour/sketchy-looking sites that were so ubiquitious a few years ago as designers reacted against the shiny/reflected aesthetic of web 2.0.

Like I said, sad to see it go, but the new design retains the spirit of the original whilst incorporting some modern web tech including HTML5 , media queries and CSS3. Check it out!

My website for the uber-cool clothing company Brat & Suzie has been featured in Designrfix’s 50 well designed ecommerce sites.

The website was built using the open source ecommerce platform Magento.

I have been extremely slack updating this blog since I wound down the freelance stuff and started working full time a few months ago, so imagine my surprise when I logged in today and found I had 365 comments awaiting moderation – most of them spam. Why would the spam bots be bothering with little old me? My intrigue roused, I checked Google Analytics to discover this site had been included in a Smashing Magazine article!! – Ultimate Guide to Using WordPress as a Portfolio . Thank you Smashing – I am officially chuffed (if drowning in spam).

PS. I was also pleased to find another of my sites, Brat and Suzie has been included on Vandaley Design’s blog. Cheers guys.