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John-Gardner.com – Version 3 launch.

Alex Canning — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:37:54 +0000

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

BPWEB Site Mockup.

Alex Canning — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:26:34 +0000

I’m fortunate enough to get my webspace provided by the good guys at BWPEB who have been friends of mine since college. Definitely check them out should you need some hosting or a dedicated server. Anyway, as an exercise I mocked up a new design for their site, complete with new logo.

Logo Mockup

Site Layout

Test Valley Broadcast Services.

Alex Canning — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:01:04 +0000

TVBS Logo

A current project is the design of stationery and a website for broadcast consultancy Test Valley Broadcast Services. The bulk of the work is still in production and under wraps, but an “under construction” (how nineties) site has been published and can be viewed here.

Portfolio update.

Alex Canning — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:43 +0000

I’m in the process of uploading my portfolio to the site so you don’t have to download the PDF to view it (although I’d be grateful if you did that too!) Just click on the links beneath Portfolio on the right.

Unearthed – further Soul Estate work.

Alex Canning — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:55:46 +0000

Beats of Rage

I was using Picasa to search my computer for pieces I’d forgotten about, and stumbled upon this graphic I made for Soul Estate in 2005. A (not too) subtle play on the video game Streets of Rage, it depicts two members – Dirty Hairy and Brassik – set against part of the title screen graphics from the game itself. I think it was intended for their MySpace page or perhaps an idea for a website?