Archive for the ‘Websites/Design’ Category

Bringing you BringBackTV.co.uk

Friday, November 14th, 2008

I have recently started a small web project with my work college Nick Haines fellow Designer. We sit next to eachother at work and have a similar passion for tv and movies. We both believe that TV has gone wrong.

Nothing is sacred anymore, Transformers is being shat on from up high by Micheal “Fast cars are my only vice” Bay and we will soon be subjected to the trauma of a GI Joe movie.

Our childhood is being exhumed and defiled by the unimaginative Hollywood turd machine, desperate to appeal to the short attention spans of the masses the film industry is trying to make a movie out of any old comic book/game/breakfast cereal it can get its hands on (In what creative world would a Hitman exist) and is now  obsessed with the film and television franchices we grew up with in the 80’s.

The heroes of our childhood are in danger, Rupert bear is wearing a hoodie, Star Wars is about as interesting as the buisness section of the telegraph and the less said about poor Indiana Jones the better.

Here at Bringback TV we want the writers, producers and all those not lucky enough to experience this great era of television film and games to realise what was so great about them in the first place.

We want to share with you some of the true greats we were lucky enough to have growing up (and a few turds as well) and what we think modern television can learn from its past to save itself from the medicore focus group driven hell hole its turning into.

This site will contain a blog and features with maybe a forum added on at a later date.

MiceFest.com Logo

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

I wanted to create a simple friendly design for MiceFest so I thought I’d make a start with the logo. To be honest the idea came quite quickly while messing around with the title text (MiceFest.com). It is not quite finished but I thought I would record my progress as I design each part of the site.

MiceFest.com logo

Xtra Gamer

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Xtra Gamer is a computer gaming blog/review site I have designed for a friend of mine Nick Maunders. He is using Word Press for his blog so I just had to design the template for him. After a while of researching other gaming blogs we decided to use some famous gaming characters in the header and then give the site a flash colour theme. Nick writes alot of gaming reviews for all consoles and is up to date with the new and up and coming games.

Xtra Gamer

Nick has managed to heavily link his blog with some of the larger gaming blogs, which will hopefully help him raise his stats and popularity of his site.

Good Luck Nick and hope the new design helps!

Fubra.com

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

I have been looking forward to writing this blog, (sad I know) but I have been designing the new Fubra.com site for a few weeks and the finished result is now up. Creating this site was a pleasure but I think that just comes with my job to be honest.

The light feel to the new sight I feel allows you to breeze through the pages with relative ease. Finding out more about Fubra’s wide range of websites, apps, jobs, staff, facilities including a new Gym! The awesome chillout room with HD 80 inch projector with surround sound, digital TV, Xbox Live and a variety of films and games (one of my fave bits ;) haha )

Fubra Website

Let me know what you think of the new site here on my blog. I hope you enjoy finding out what we do here at Fubra and come back and visit again.

Gizmo & MiceFest.com

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

I have recently bought a mouse (Gizmo) as a pet to see how tame I can make him. I have been reading many Blogs and web articles on how to tame mice and some are genuinely helpful others not so. As I attempt to tame Gizmo I wanted to blog my results here.

Meanwhile I am reading a book that Steve Whiteley bought me (Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS). I have been wanting to learn HTML and web development to advance my career as a web designer.

I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to teach myself HTML by building a mouse guide. So I went ahead and bought myself the domain MiceFest.com as part of my experiment. I will carry on blogging on my progression with Gizmo and the new site as they happen.