Inspiration is a tricky beast, sometimes you get flash upon flash of ideas and dont know what to do with them all, and other times (as folks will know with my fusion servers logo) the inspiration is just a little out of reach.

So here are some pages I like to use for inspiration:

www.smashingmagazine.com
www.logopond.com
www.myfonts.com
www.thedesigninspiration.com (new one)
www.tutorial9.com
www.nikibrown.com
www.noupe.com
www.alistapart.com...

Recently I got given the opportunity to do more web graphics for my company, doing the newsletters etc, which is great by me, means I dont have to speak to customers on the phone and I get to play around with things I enjoy (photoshop, illustrator, web design, css etc)

But my MD seems to live in the past, or at least the early 00's. We had a newsletter and website designed by some company and I hated them, I thought it was bland and very poorly designed, both code and layout. There...

Wamp -Windows Apache MySQL PHP

Wamp installs a local version of Apache, MySQL and PHP to help develop locally without the need to upload your code to a server.

During installation you can select how you reach the WAMP server, but the default is Localhost. You then have a folder inside C:/wamp/ called www where you can save all your websties. Start the WAMP service and then in any browser enter in "localhost", it will take you to a holding page for WAMP, you then...

We have all tinkered with colour settings, be it for our television sets or monitors, and even our mobile phones, the problem is that with so many visual displays they can all be slightly different, even if its not noticeable.

I am someone who prefers a slightly darker display to most, it just feels "better" on the eyes, but this puts me at a slight disadvantage when creating graphics or editing photos. What I end up creating will look different to someone else who has a...

Went to York with the misses for valentines day

Rather like Churches and religious stuff.






The misses. I took this whilst she was buying her self a bracelet. When she came out she said the manager had come down and said "theres some wierd o taking photos of my staff out side" thinking one...