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This is my typical process for designing and building a new website. It briefly describes each step of the project, what’s required and what it entails. Read more

I have quite a few UK based clients, so when I moved to Melbourne, Australia with my family in 2016, I wasn’t sure how my working week would go. Working during the night while the UK are awake was not something I could do with having a young family, but things have worked out surprisingly well. Read more

I designed the branding and user interface for a blood pressure logging app for Android. All the artwork was created in Sketch. Read more

I still remember that day in 2009, where I was sat in my tiny two desk office in the Bolton Enterprise Centre, realising I had to build an ecommerce platform from scratch. It was the day Shopit was born. Read more

Not too long ago I was invited to meet with a clothing company to discuss some fundamental improvements to their Shopify website. Disappointingly, after two hours of driving and an unproductive 10-minute meeting (where their only in-house developer didn’t show), I came away with a wasted journey. Read more

Buckingham specialises in manufacturing professional cookware. Their range includes cast iron and stainless steel cookware, cutlery, storage and pet ware. Read more

I designed the National Curriculum PE Core Task Handbook for The Learn2 Group which features over 200 resources aimed at improving children’s teamwork, fitness and general skills. Read more

Recently I designed the branding and UI concept for a small baseball cap ecommerce store. I wanted to create something that was different, straightforward, clean and minimalistic. Read more

I love the new desktop design of Gmail but I find the font size of the message composition window to be too small. Amazingly Google hasn’t added any options to change the font size other than providing the default “small”, “normal” and “large” (which is too large) choices. Read more

Nowadays there’s a subscription for everything and it’s so easy to get carried away and sign up for everything you need to get your work done. But, the costs can quickly add up and before you know it most of the money you’re making is being consumed by subscription services. Read more

When it comes to building ecommerce websites, the order confirmation emails and invoices are often neglected or forgotten and we make do with the default design or template. But these are all important features and if designed well can add that extra bit of professionalism, customer reassurance and also strengthen your brand image. Read more

Sometimes you need to display accompanying information for a product and rather than trying to fit it all on to one web page, displaying it as a modal is often the best option. Read more

Recently, I’ve been working on a Shopify site that needed to display both VAT exclusive and inclusive prices to customers who are disabled or have specific health conditions. Read more

If you’re into front-end design and development then you would have no doubt heard about CSS grid which enables much more flexible layouts for web pages. Read more

This year (2018) marks a big milestone in my career. It officially marks my 20 year anniversary in the web design and development industry. Read more

UPDATE JULY 2018 - I’ve updated the plugin to enable the cookie message to be reopened after it is set the first time. Read more

If you’re reading this then you will already be aware of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that will be coming in to effect on 25 May 2018. Read more

I’ve designed and built a lot of ecommerce sites during my career and have even built my own ecommerce platform. But, recently I started using Shopify as my chosen system and have been very impressed with how it all works. Read more

When the time comes to move your website to a new hosting provider, it’s best to create a plan of action that outlines the steps and processes required to ensure a seamless and successful migration. Read more

HTML5 introduced the new range form element that is perfect for creating sliders with min and max values. Read more