The English Guy Web Design

HP2HT stands for “Helping People to Help Themselves” and it means just that. It’s an excellent idea of an agricultural cycle - helping orphans in the Philippines to grow their own food, using manure to fertilize the ground, growing the crops to feed the children and the livestock. More and more countries should take note [...]

The Screen Biz is a cutting edge movie review site and the owner wanted a blog to match the website. Choosing WordPress was a great decision as it is very versatile and flexible both in terms of design and use.
This was a three column theme and designed to emulate but not copy the website that [...]

So you’ve probably mastered the easy part of writing your first posts, after reading the Using WordPress 2.5 - Writing Posts post I made a week or so ago. Well done! Not so difficult now is it?
Now let’s add some pictures. This is actually straightforward.
First image is of a post half written and ready to [...]

A lot of people who run WordPress on a day to day basis may find this interesting, as a lot of those people don’t know about the Update Services, or how to configure them properly. You find them in Settings -> Writing, right at the bottom of the page (for WordPress 2.5); and, Options -> [...]

This project involved taking a Photoshop PSD file and chopping it up, and creating a unique WordPress theme from it. The contact at Vir Magazine was clear about what he wanted, quick to respond to questions, and very well informed about WordPress and its capabilities.
The theme itself is a two-column WordPress theme, nothing fancy or [...]

I have had the chance recently to work on Victoria Pericon’s site. A lifestyle diva, she wanted some alterations to an already existing theme (Mimbo theme by Darren Hoyt).
In my view, she has a nice colour combination, and a unique professionally-designed logo graphic (not by me I should add). Content is going to be coming [...]

One of my latest projects is the Political Derby blog. This is a political commentary blog that seems to take a fairly unbiased view of the political machinations and race that is currently the US’ number one focus.
Give a fairly strict set of criteria to live up to, the blog was designed to make use [...]

Recently I’ve had the opportunity to perform some much needed SEO work on a Joomla-based website, OilUK. This has been somewhat of an experience for me, I am more used to WordPress blogs, not Joomla. That has not been an impediment however, and the SEO work has done well.
Although there is little similarity between the [...]

This was a blog design project that was based on an interesting theme (it’s a bit obvious, of course) - facts, and fairy tales.
Facts and Fairy Tales is a two column, centred WordPress theme, with a working width of 800 pixels. The background is a single

large image (again, centred) with the title, text, and [...]

Isn’t it always the case that business follows great ideas?
But that is not always a bad thing. After all, bloggers work hard at their (our) craft, many hours researching, writing, networking, corresponding. It -is- a career these days and why shouldn’t a blogger get paid for blogging? It is no different than any other form [...]