I started out in this industry as a designer. I stumbled across Photoshop accidentally when designing a poster for a dissertation presentation of a 3D animation I had created in 3d studio max. From there I proceeded to teach myself graphic design, landed a job in the web design industry and haven't looked back. For the last year or so I've been employed as a web developer, in a role that involved almost no design work whatsoever and I have an urge get back to design. Read more
Inspect Element is a web design and development blog created by myself to share my experiences designing and developing the web with anyone who comes across it. I had few goals in mind before creating Inspect Element including improving my skills as a web designer, helping others learn and to have a project of my own to run and maintain. Read more
Search for your name on Google. Everyone does it. When you search for mine you will see a voice actor of the same name dominate the results. The same voice actor who voices the popular Spongebob Squarepants. So what's the big deal? He definitely is more famous than I am so this should be the case. The problem is my twitter account appears about half way down the page appearing after the images, videos and a title of 'Has Voice of Spongebob Tom Kenny died?'. Not particularly great. Read more
I don't usually make New Year's resolutions as I like to create goals for myself when I need to and not necessarily be restricted to a certain time of the year but I'm going to give it a go this year to see what the fuss is all about. Read more
It's been far too long. The design of my previous portfolio launched in July 2008 or about 20 years ago in web years. Possibly a slight exaggeration but I now need a place where I can blog about things other than web design and development like I do at Inspect Element. Don't forget the simple fact that the old design was horribly out of date and was designed and developed in my early days of entering the industry when I had little experience. I need something that represents what I'm about today, not two and a half years ago. Read on to find out more about the new design. Read more