The term passive income is something I’ve noticed around the freelance and design blogs websites for a while now. It’s a way of earning money from something that can be created, and once it exists income (hopefully) can trickle in from either subscriptions of customer purchases – this obviously depends on what the product / [...]
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New Year's Resolution – Passive Income
January 27th, 2009 in Design, ObservationsCreate Repeat Patterns for Websites
January 17th, 2009 in DesignBG Patterns is really simple tool that allows you to create repeating backgrounds by choosing a shape, a colour, the size, rotation and transparency for that shape, and finally the background colour and texture. It gives you a live preview of all your changes, and then once you are happy with the results you can [...]
new website: janie pirie
December 10th, 2008 in Designlast year i designed and build janie’s first website – gold leaf prints – which has now been replaced by www.janiepirie.co.uk. this site was simplified from the original gold leaf design and content, offering prints and cards rather than all the bells and whistles that gold leaf contained. the site makes use of the paypal [...]
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fabric rehab
December 8th, 2008 in Designlast week saw the launch of a website that i have been working on for the last couple of months. fabric rehab is a company run by two sister’s (nancy and sally) who asked me to design them a website to sell ‘funky fabric’, they have been selling fabric on ebay for a while, but [...]
Love the Lakes
November 11th, 2008 in DesignOctober saw the launch of one of the largest websites that I have undertaken so far. The site was for a real bricks and mortar shop in England’s Lake District which specialises in products sourced locally – the products were main gift items such as mugs, books and clothing. The brief was to create a [...]
the highs & lows of the favicon
August 8th, 2008 in Designthat little 16 x 16 pixel square that sits in the url bar to the left of the website address isn’t very important to some people, to others – it’s something to sweat over, discuss and argue over. google changed their favicon a couple of months ago, i noticed to be honest wondered why they [...]
wordle makes your words interesting
August 1st, 2008 in Designwordle takes the idea of a tag cloud – a selection of words or tags – and sets about organising them in an eye-catching design. the example on the right is this blog and the previous five posts – notice how much i use the word ‘css’ more than all the other words on the [...]
a tidy and a promise
July 27th, 2008 in Observationsi’ve been ignoring my blog, but i’m going to try and post more often – i’ve also had a little tidy up as i realised there’s a load of broken links and missing images on some older posts. i’ve also trimmed down on the categories – there were 11, which is far too many – [...]
new portfolio / web design site
April 27th, 2008 in Designi’ve started to take my website design more seriously and brought my portfolio website bang up to date with a more business like approach to my freelancing. previously it was a bit more casual in it’s content and copy, i also didn’t do too much in the way of promoting the site – there wasn’t [...]
Funky Tee's
February 21st, 2008 in DesignI wear a lot of odd and unusual t-shirts and I do get asked from time to time where I get them from – so I’m about to give out a couple of secrets, and continue to on this blog as I find newdesigns that are worth shouting about and buying! Undoubtedly the best site [...]
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