What I've done

Landing page, Tumblr blog design, rebranding and illustration for tmayr.com.

Landing page, WordPress blog/portfolio design implementation for gauravpatel.co.uk.

Founding, complete design, infrastructure and running of dingoonity.org community.

What I do

I've had a bit of an identity crisis when trying to define what I do over the past couple of years. I've called myself a 'graphic designer', a 'web designer' and a 'web developer' — but what I've come to realise is that I'm not just any one of these things, I'm all of them.

I'm a 'front-end developer'. I like to create the bells and whistles that you see when you visit a website. I'm as interested in how a website looks and functions as I am about how the website markup is structured and how accessible it is.

I've got ten years of experience in working with web technologies — five years of that has been spent making money with the skills I've developed.

Currently I work as a front-end developer at 2Degrees for my day job. Previously I worked as a 'web designer' at RS Components. When the sun sets I can be found basking in the cool glow of my monitors while working through the night on my own web-based projects.

Projects

In 2008 I co-created moanlog — a website where people can go to anonymously moan.

In 2009 I created Dingoonity — a community centered around a Chinese games console called the Dingoo A320.

Through 2010 and 2011 I've been working on numerous projects, from small JavaScript challenges through to some adventures in Object-Oriented Programming.

  • HTML I've been working with standards-compliant HTML since 2002.
  • CSS I've been focussed on creating valid CSS since 2004.
  • PHP I've been procedurally programming with PHP since 2005.
  • MySQL I've been producing CRUD with MySQL since 2005.
  • JavaScript I've been dabbling in JavaScript since 2005.
  • jQuery I've been abusing jQuery constantly since 2009.
  • XML I've been marking up XML since 2009.
  • XSLT I've been transforming XML with XSLT since 2009.
  • Photoshop I've been pushing pixels in Photoshop since 2001.
  • DreamWeaver I've been suffering in angst with DreamWeaver since 2005.
  • FTP I've been using FTP since 2002, lately using Filezilla and Transmit.
  • Espresso I've been making more excuses
    to use Espresso every day.
  • Windows I've been a Windows user for as long as I've used computers.
  • OS X More recently I've converted to using OS X Snow Leopard.
  • WordPress I've been making WordPress blogs look nice since 2005.
  • SMF 1.x/2.x I've been maintaining a Simple Machines Forum since 2009.

Talk to me

What I'm saying

Here are some recent tweets and blog entries. If you'd like to see more that I have to say, you could follow me on Twitter, stalk me on Facebook, +1 me on Google+, or go and check out my blog at blog.omgmog.net.

My twitter feed is updated multiple times a day, often with things I find interesting, or small updates about the interesting things I do from time to time. My blog is mostly tech-related reviews and generally geekery, updated monthly at least.

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