This evening I had the great pleasure of flicking the giant on-switch for Version 3.0 of John-Gardner.com, the website of crime and thriller writer John Gardner. It’s taken about 4 months to develop and should allow for new features and greater fan-interaction, thanks to the CMS platform Drupal on which it is built. I’ll be updating my portfolio soon with the full details but in the meantime, I’d just like to say thanks to Aron Carroll and Sam @ BPWEB for their web skills. Also, thanks Simon for letting me be part of this project. Cheers dudes!
As it probably fairly obvious from the post title, you can visit the site at www.john-gardner.com.
John-Gardner.com v3 Home
John-Gardner.com v3 - Updates Page
John-Gardner.com v3 - Bond Gallery
You’ve gotta love mums and should appreciate that they put up a lot, so I quickly knocked this up as my tribute to mothers everywhere. Feel free to display proudly when yours comes round for Sunday dinner. Right click and select “Save Target” or “Save Link As…”.
Smothering Sunday
It’s nice when you get to flex your creative muscles in a job which might not require a great deal of creativity. The firm I work for is soon to get into the iPhone case game and I, as well as some colleagues have had the chance to design some. Hopefully the project will be a huge success and we’ll be commissioned to design some more! Here are the cases I designed:
Mixtape iPhone Case
Comic Book iPhone Case
Ah a new year and with it, new playlists. Aron and I have created many of them, yet only a few have come to light. Maybe I’ll post a few more in future. The theme for this one was simple: Zoos! I really enjoyed this one for the following reasons:
- The easier the theme is, the easier it is to find songs to go into the playlist. Keep it simple, stupid!
- These playlists are a great way for me to discover great music I might not have listened to, this one was no different.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did, I definitely reckon this was one of the better ones. It’s All Happening At The Zoo
2009 has truly been a rollercoaster ride for me and it feels odd that it’ll soon be over (only for a new ride to begin, no doubt). The year started with the threat of redundancy, which was soon rendered a reality when in March I lost my job. Some six weeks later, I’d be starting a new job which would give me my first taste of working in a studio. Things have more or less turned out alright, and losing my job earlier in the year really gave me a kick I needed to reboot my career.
Whilst I’ve had some great support from family and chums, there are a few guys I’m indebted to, namely: Aron for his unparalleled HTML/CSS assistance and for being an awesome sounding-board, Huw for giving me career advice throughout the year, Jon for giving me the job at Mobstar (and saving me from further dole-queue perils!), Simon for all kinds of worldly/design advice and keeping me working and Lisa – it’s been a pretty tense year for us both and she’s been super supportive through it all. Also, cheers Sam and Nick at BPWEB – these guys very graciously provide my web hosting.
Also, thanks Mum!
