A while back, a very good friend of mine (@EmmaWebsdale) was in the process of putting her first novel together named Alluro (which she’s now drawing towards finishing up!). I just couldn’t resist offering to conjure up a website together for her to help promote the book. I knew it would give me the chance [...]

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I found this ’springy’ text effect in the footer of the Desandro website and wanted to find out for myself how it had been accomplished. Anyway after a bit off CSS-ing around I’ve come up with this using the text-shadow property and some positioning techniques.

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Circlebox Blog

I coded up this clean WordPress theme for @callumchapman (it was designed by Callum) to give him his first customised theme for his blog, exclusive to Circlebox Creative. The theme includes a customised author page, this displays their profile along with their posts.

Testimonial: “Ben offered great services at a great price I couldn’t refuse. He [...]

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Welcome to part four of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! This 4th part covers setting up WordPress’s amazing comment system, getting your pages (pages.php) looking like the rest of your blog, setting up your dynamic highlighting nav’ and more! I’ve also provided code snippets below which would of bored you all to death explaining so [...]

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The other day I was collecting a load sites that presented themselves and their work well to get some ideas for the redesign of my work’s website. So I’ve chosen a few which to me show something innovative, something new and how the trend of web design is going.

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Welcome to part three of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! This third part introduces you to The Loop and getting your blog to work with WordPress’s main function, blogging! I’ll also step into plugins to allow you to create thumbnails for your posts.

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That’s right, I have gone mad, well no, I’m just feeling generous to you wonderful people who take it upon yourselves to read my blog. I’m giving away one copy of Espresso to one of you lucky people and getting your mits on it couldn’t be any easier but first just to clarify I’m not [...]

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BenDigital

I redesigned the front of BenDigital’s website and coded up the front page as a template for him to finish the rest of the site. I designed the site to be sleek with a ‘Web 2.0′ look and with a real carbon fiber background.
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Illusions Hairdressing

Illusions Haidressing is the front for a Cambridge based hairdresser offering professional mobile hairdressing. I used WordPress for the back end of the site so that all copy can edited, images changed and the jQuery galleries added to.
The website is designed to have a very clean look while still en-compassing a nice professional style.
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As a design student, I’m always looking for inspirational images and new artists and designers to follow. Surrounding yourself in new pieces of work you like can bring on a whole new aspect to your design. It can make you want to learn something new, push you to better yourself and ultimately help to fuel [...]

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