My interview on spicy web designers

Sep 9, 06:17 PM | Comment [2]

I was recently approached by Luc Arnold, founder of Spicy web designers to be interviewed for his new site.

In their own words:

SpicyWebDesigners.com features some of the hottest web design talent around the world and strives to showcase them and inspire others with what is possible in the world of web design.

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Whereis products

May 15, 03:59 PM Comment

I’m pleased to announce that the ‘mini’ site I built for Whereis has gone live. Whereis products explains some of the new features at the recently launched new whereis.com, as well as explaining how you can make use of whereis’ maps across a range of products including mobile and in-car GPS devices.

I built the site from scratch in (x)HTML and CSS to be as standards-compliant and accessible as the design would allow.

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Work update

Mar 25, 12:18 PM | Comment [1]

I just realised it’s been a really long time since I updated the portfolio section of this site. Not without good reason though, and it’s not because I’ve been slacking off and enjoying the Melbourne sunshine (the chance would be a fine thing). It’s because most of the projects I’ve worked on of late have either been internal web applications (so not available for public consumption) or have not gone live yet. As such I don’t want to publish anything visual just at the minute, partly because I’m not really allowed to in some cases but also because I don’t want to spoil the launches for my clients.

That said, I’m enormously proud of some of the things I’ve been working on of late so I wanted to share some of the more notable pieces to give some insight on what I’ve been up to:

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Lessons learned from Gordon Ramsay

Mar 22, 03:29 PM | Comment [1]

I’ve been loving Gordon Ramsay’s kitchen nightmares series’ (the British ones were much better than the American ones – much less ‘reality TV’ shenanigans).

Each week Ramsay helps a struggling restaurant to turn things around, always with the same basic method of combining determination, attitude and drive with keeping things simple, manageable and meaningful to the customers.

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Looking for freelancers

Jan 18, 01:16 PM | Comment [1]

Things are getting pretty busy here at BTD so I’m on the look out for good freelancers to help me out.

If you’re a web designer, standards-aware front end developer, flash designer/action-scripter or have experience in working with textpattern and you’re looking for short-term freelance work on an ad-hoc basis, drop me a line at freelancework@tollady.com

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Side notes

My article in Think Vitamin
I recently wrote a review of Campaign Monitor for Think Vitamin.

20 Signs you don't want that web design project
Interesting that even the mighty Zeldman has to deal with this kind of thing!

Web Freelancers
Web Freelancers is an online jobs board for standards-aware, top-notch web professionals in Australia and New Zealand.

Batch renaming made easy
Terrible, confusing design. Just take a look!

I don't usually get this excited about work
Nice truncation by netvibes.