One Year Later… A New Design is Born

Well, almost. It’s pretty much a year since I scrapped my old ExpressionEngine site and put together a portfolio and blog in WordPress. Mine was the first WordPress site that I built, and, while the sticky tape’s held it all together pretty nicely, there’s so much that could be improved.

That’s why it’s been quiet here as of late — I’ve been working away behind the scenes in my spare time to create a new look and feel for my site. One that’s a lot more… me. I’m polishing it off and covering over the scuff marks at the moment, so it’ll be put in place very shortly.

How about a Nice Hot Cuppa?

Recently, I’ve been thinking that a change in branding would do my own freelance business some good — that having a ’studio’ name, rather than using my own, would help in gaining new custom. To that end, I’m happy to announce that Nice Hot Cuppa is now online.

OK, it’s just a holding page for the [...]

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Gmail does it again — say hello to Tasks!

Just as I was heading to bed last night, I spotted a new link at the top of my Gmail page announcing the arrival of Google Mail Tasks under the Labs programme.

Obviously I couldn’t go straight to sleep without checking this out first, so I spent a few minutes having a play around with it. [...]

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Thanks for dressing me, FreshBooks!

Just over two weeks ago, FreshBooks ran a little competition through Twitter. They’d published a new press release on their website and intentionally left a couple of spelling mistakes in.
The competition was this — first person to find and report the two mistakes wins a t-shirt. Simple!
I loaded the page, had a read through, and [...]

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Rob Barrett Introduction