Selene M. Bowlby, a web designer and developer who has recently taken the jump into full time freelance work has just posted a blog entry with 60+ essential feeds for freelance web designers. She made the post in response to an open thread on Freelance Folder asking “How Do You Stay Sharp?”.
As a web developer, […]

I’ve been very quiet for the last 6/7 weeks.  Everything has been a bit crazy at work – lots to do, lots already done, but not much to show for all the effort!
Over the last few months we’ve been busy working on several new websites, a fair number of which have now been handed to […]

I’m a little behind the times, but better late than never!
Techcrunch, a technology blog covering ’web 2.0’ and internet start ups had a bit of a redesign earlier this week.  As a blog that I keep track of all the time, I’m really pleased to see it move away from its previous, cluttered look to […]

As I mentioned in an entry earlier this month, I’ve spent virtually every minute of every day (when not eating, sleeping or going to the gym) working on numerous projects for both VSI and my freelance clients. The first, a revamp of my blog was finished 2 weeks ago, the second was finally finished […]

Things have been a bit quiet on this blog over the last few months because I’ve spent pretty much every waking moment working, commuting or working some more.  During office hours I’ve been working as a full time web developer for VSI-Thinking.  I’ve spent the last month and a half getting reacquainted with their systems, […]

On Monday, the social networking site Facebook released its new design to a selection of its members.  Over the next few weeks, this major update will be pushed out to everyone registered on the network.  Yesterday evening, a discussion began on Twitter surrounding the new Facebook image – with a number of users who don’t […]

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later and it turned out to be sooner than I expected. Wordpress have just released Wordpress for the iPhone.
Following in the footsteps of TypePad, this app allows you to post to your Wordpress blog straight from your iPhone without having to use the standard admin […]

This is the final part of a series of entries looking at websites operated by county councils for the 2008 local elections.

Over the last few entries, I’ve looked at some of the websites used by county councils to provide details of the 2008 local elections. Some of these websites (mainly Monmouthshire County Council) were […]

This is the third part of a series of entries covering websites operated by county councils for the 2008 local elections. Previous I evaluated websites operated by Monmouthshire County Council and the City and County of Swansea. In this entry, I will look at the site run by Cardiff Council.

Cardiff Council’s local election […]

This is the second part in a series of entries looking at local election websites run by various county councils across Wales. Previously I examined the county of Monmouthshire. In this entry, I take a look at the website run by Swansea City Council.

Swansea City Council has taken a very different approach to […]