Recent Projects Page Up

Tue, 11 May 2010 09:49:42 +0100

I'm finally getting some of the extra dynamic elements I want on the site.

For instance I've got a recent projects page now with a nifty little sliding gallery. I plan to keep it current, and felt that it was important to keep a dynamic page with new content all the time, but also have the portfolio page with less frequent updates. The portfolio page should showcase the variety of work I do, and the quality across all the design disciplines, whereas the current projects show that I'm still active and growing all the time.

I also plan to have a section for ongoing personal projects, but am inclined to think that rather than clutter up the main navigation, I'll post them in the blog. Its a more cosy space for personal projects anyway.

Comments are disabled for now because of spamming and bots, so feel free to email any comments to me. Some constructive criticism is almost always welcome. ;)

Marc Fowler Designs goes live!

Mon, 10 May 2010 09:52:40 +0100

At long last I've got a website up!

Imagine the possibilities... a design service with an actual web presence! You'd think that I'd have done this before, but I guess that I just never managed to get around to it. Oh, I've spent hours tinkering in Photoshop behind the scenes, putting together my dream site, but actually getting to the point where I had something to put online and in a workable format took time.

But I decided that there were no more excuses. Just because I don't do back-end web design is no longer an excuse. So I hopped online and cheated. That's right, CHEATED! Everyone assumes that just because you're a designer you can build web sites... and in its simplest form I can. But to build a site with a solid structure that has a hope of being indexed by Google, doesn't take too long to load, and just works, it takes a bit more knowledge. So I browsed the wonderful entity known as the world wide web and got myself a template. Presto! I finally had a base for the site and from there it was a small bit a tweaking to my original design and I have a starting point.

I plan to build on the site and to expand it, but for now its a start.

So if you haven't seen my work yet, jump straight to the portfolio.