i'm a web designer

This is all about the lovely little Twitter app known as Blu. It’s created by an unknown (well I’ve never heard of them) company called thirteen23. You can download Blu from their site here.

Ok. So you’re at their website and it says ‘Vista Twitter client’. Well if you are on Windows XP you may turn away at this point. DO NOT. It works for you. Now rejoice. So download it, ignore what it says about correct software installed on your comp. Thats all rubbish.

Oh, quick note, you will need Windows .NET 3.5 before you can run this little app.

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You probably haven’t noticed, but over the past few days my site has had a couple of new upgrades and fixes.

The most noticeable will be of course, the new fading featured content slider on the homepage and on the services page.

Some small other improvements have gone on too, with aligning objects properly to make the site look a teensy bit better, though you won’t notice.

Another new addition to my site, is tutorials. I will be doing a few tutorials every now and then and I hope they prove to be useful to some

We will be making the smash desktop background featured on my art page. To get started open up Adobe Photoshop

Start with your document, I started with 1440×900 pixel size, but you can do any. Fill it with a dark grey. Mine was #0a0a0a.

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Around this time last year is when i finally decided i should buy myself a domain name and some hosting. I started off with a simple design, and didnt really follow through with it. Despite this i uploaded the site anyway.

Since I first uploaded my first website, I have swapped and changed it a lot, always iterating the design, the layout and the content to what you see around you today. No doubt there are more designs on the way, but thats not for a while as I’ve finally found a layout that I like and works for me

Below you get to see the designs that evolved over the past year, excited yet?

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Due to recent appearance on Skins, everyone on my course decided it would be rather funny to milk it for as much as they could. It has now been over a week. I have an #alexfromskins twitter account, and a Facebook group entitled ‘The Alex From Skins Appreciation Society’.

It’s all very childish, but I can see that it’s not going away despite how annoying it is. So I’ve decided to join in and laugh along with them instead of getting annoyed.

Oh by the way, the Facebook group is continuing to grow in size by the hour, at the time of writing this post it has 39 members, and another 180 waiting to accept invites. This is quite interesting.

Finally I hear you cry. The blog page is up and running, took long enough but here it is. So hi =]