About Me
Hi there, glad you could make it. My name is Dave, I'm 35 and a quarter and live, work and play in Stoke-on-Trent, a medium sized city in the centre of the UK near to Manchester.
I am currently working as a Web Developer/Designer and Software Developer available for freelance projects ranging from small scale personal sites to full blown ventures.
I love finding new, cool stuff on the web. Always seems to be something out there that I've not seen before that makes me take notice.
Most of these I "steal" from other weblogs or are found via links from friends, the rest are things I happen across usually during one of my infamous Google searches.
In the real world I'm an Xbox fanboy, part time journalist, badminton superstar and I'm a lover, not a fighter. Anything else you want to know about me, just ask. And for those of you too lazy to read all this, there's even this handy summary for you all.
- Car: MINI Cooper S
- Motto: "I love you all, but if I must hurt you, I will"
- Interests: Xbox, Football, F1, TV, Films, sweet sweet revenge.
- Musical Tastes: Varied, favourite bands include; Oasis, The Hives, Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers, The Bluetones, REM, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, The Beatles, The Doves, The Strokes, BRMC. the list goes on...
- Films: again, very varied. Have several hundred DVD's ranging from Arsenic & Old Lace to XXX. (those are titles, not types btw)
About the site
The new colour scheme was designed around the very obvious 'grass' motif. I decided that having a large Cow on the top of my page wasn't giving the impression that I was a professional and took my work seriously. Also I wanted a change.
The graphics were haphazardly mashed together using Photoshop, layout was
all designed in Dreamweaver just so I could experiment and
because I'm lazy like that.
The background coding is all PHP running against a mySQL database. That
side of things was probably the easiest to do, and I felt it would be
cheating to use Moveable Type if I could write something myself.
I decided to make the site geeky-cool by making the layout and positioning all done via CSS. There's no tables to be seen here, not a one. Works pretty well, and the W3C approve my stylesheet too.
The site validates as XHTML 1.0, which means I can put this
very nice logo on every page if I wanted to ruin the colour scheme I'd developed.