Posted on April 23, 2008 at 2:14pm
I guess more fool me for starting a new blog right before going on holiday! A few days after my last post, I left Cardiff and hitchhiked for charity (Link Community Development) down through France and Spain to Morocco, where I spent a week on top of the eight days it took to get there. [...]
Categories: Freebies, Graphic Design, Personal, Web Design.
Posted on March 17, 2008 at 11:31pm
I’ve just been going through a few design sites this evening, and it’s surprising how many nice looking sites have such slow-loading navigation images. What I mean is, you see the menu fine, but when you hover over a link you have to wait a second or two for the rollover state to download and [...]
Categories: CSS, Tutorial, Web Design.
Posted on March 17, 2008 at 9:35pm
It may not have been the most sensible thing to start my blog when I did — I knew that March was going to be a busy month. I’ve just spent a weekend away in London and I’m off hitchhiking to Morocco in just over a week’s time (not to mention all the preparatory meetings/drinking sessions [...]
Categories: Graphic Design, Illustration, Personal, Web Design.
Posted on March 3, 2008 at 7:50pm
I found a pretty cool tutorial last night for mimicking the style from the movie ‘300′ — basically taking a shot, compositing it on top of a moody cloud backdrop, and overlaying with brown-beige.
I whipped up a couple of fast demos of the technique in the image below — the first shot is the stock photo I [...]
Posted on February 28, 2008 at 1:24am
My blog no longer uses ExpressionEngine, so this code doesn’t apply to this site.
I love using ExpressionEngine for my site, but to be honest, the documentation around it can be pretty confusing at times.
For instance, I spent well over an hour just finding out how to include a list of relevant categories for each post. [...]
Categories: ExpressionEngine, Freebies, Web Design.
Hello, my name is Rob…
I’m a graphic designer near Brixton, South London, serving up tasty print and web design, with a dash of illustration hot sauce.
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