About Me

I’m an experienced website designer and developer and I have been working full time in the industry for over six years but I have over eight years of experience. This is my personal site.

Below is list of my achievements over the years.

I’ve had my work featured in a book

In 2007, Larry Ullman, author and well respected programmer contacted me asking to feature one of my templates in his book, which I duly accepted and my work now features in his book “PHP 5 Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide”.

I wrote about @font-face

In 2010, whilst employed as a front-end web developer at Milton Bayer, I wrote an article about @font-face which has been viewed tens of thousands of times and ranks on the first page in Google for “font face” related queries. The link has been shared regularly on twitter by my peers. The article also ranks higher than the “Mozilla” and “A List Apart” articles on the same subject. See: http://www.miltonbayer.com/font-face/ and http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=font+face

I’ve been in magazines

In December 2008 I approached .net magazine and they agreed to feature my templates on their cover mounted CD for two months.

My designs have been used by 100,000+

I first started out by making open source website templates using the “downloads per day” and “overall downloads” on the websites where these were published as a motivator and a benchmark to keep improving my designs and code. This resulted in one of my designs being in the top 20 for over six years to date. I estimate that 100,000 people have downloaded my templates in total, of which I have made a handful of.

See more at (username: NOWdesign); www.oswd.org and www.openwebdesign.org.