The English Guy Web Design

Working for a sign company you get to work on quite a diverse lot of signs and advertising. Some of it is straightforward, sometimes it’s purely informational signs, do this - don’t do that etc., We don’t see cutting edge (or risky) advertising signage and I think that’s a great shame, making you look and [...]

Seen global warming in action yet?
I have - my next door neighbour’s flowers are STILL flowering. Last week when I pruned the rose bush back over my front door, it STILL had roses budding and flowering on it! Talk about strange eh? The weather really is acting odd lately. It’s been such a warm autumn [...]

For work we have this thing every year where everyone buys a Christmas gift for around £5. They buy it for the same sex, and then we pick out of a hat who it goes to, so it’s totally random. I’m having a bit of a crisis because I cannot for the life of me [...]

I had written about installing IE6 and IE7 a week or so back. I had followed Microsoft’s instructions to install the latest IE7 ‘update’ (in other words installing IE7 over IE6). This was good, for getting some familiarity with IE7 and I must say I am impressed.
The problem arose when designing web pages for a [...]

Yes, you too can drink all day long, 24 hours a day AND gamble!
Providing of course, that you are in a legal British establishment. How intelligent those Government ministers are, letting us gamble with our 24 hour day drinking. How thoughtful, how forward-looking.
No wait, let me get my head out of my a** for a [...]

There must be something of a market for interchangeable advertising between all the english speaking countries.
The other day I was watching something on TV and on comes an advert for Febreze (the one where the guy is laying on the floor and the couples are guessing what he’s pretending to be). I looked at [...]

Something caught my eye on the BBC News webpage today, the Bic Biro turns 60 today!
That’s amazing considering how ubiquitous the biro is, and how much for granted we take such an invention. Still, you learn something every day: the first people who used the biro were RAF pilots who used it as a replacement [...]

Today I had to design a warning sign for a client. Specifically he wanted a warning sign that warned about his dogs. Most people have a bit of black text on the yellow background saying something like, ‘Warning Guard Dogs’.
This client though, clearly has a sense of humour and wanted his text to read, ‘House [...]

Sadly, I have to go back to work in the morning. I’m sat here at 10:45pm finishing up a few things before I rest my tired eyes: namely emailing a few people back, sorting out a tricky css problem for a client, getting stuff ready for the morning, and listening to new music tracks from [...]

I upgraded my Internet Explorer the other week to the new version (IE 7.0.5730.11). I must say that I am actually impressed by it, and rather like using it. My problem however came up the other day when I was working for a client. He mentioned a piece of a menu looked offset in IE6. [...]