and the winner is…

For a few years now, Web Directions conference has incorporated The McFarlane Prize, which recognises excellence in web development. Although a relatively small prize, it is hotly contested, peer reviewed and any sites that are shortlisted (let alone those that win), have achieved very high levels of excellence in coding, usability, design and accessibility (that’s …

Women’s Semi Final, Australian Open 1992

Every January when the Australian Open Tennis is on, I fondly remember back to 1992 when, working for XPress Group, I was lucky enough to be handed a Press Pass and a Nikon F2 camera fitted with a new Kodak DCS-1 back. The camera, in turn, was connected to a ‘luggable’ hard disk with (B+W …

cassowary crossing…

My latest little design job, a straightforward wordpress theme and setup to accompany a quirky book about odd things to visit around Australia, Cassowary Crossing. I have to say. it was nice to work with someone who has no lack of decent content. David has already filled his blog with loads of interesting stuff.

another site launched

Quite pleased with this one: Melbourne University Publishing, it’s the first time I’ve had a high profile site with full css layout. Very accessible and pretty much compatible with most modern browsers, but best looking in firefox on a mac (of course!).

Yum!

Here’s another little site I’ve just completed. This time for friends with an exceptional chinese restaurant: Shanghai Ling. The food at ShanghaiLing is unlike anything you’ll get at your more familiar ‘Cantonese’ restaurants – there’s a spicy freshness that keeps us coming back again and again. Also, they do the best tofu I’ve ever had …

trees

This is only a very small job, but it was quite fun to do. An excuse to go back to the old days of repeating background images. The site is for a fella who runs a ‘Tree Consulting Service’, that is: he doesn’t consult trees, he consults with the people responsible for dealing with trees… …