“Passport and boarding pass please…” Here we go again. There’s nothing that can be said about this lifestyle if not that it’s exciting. I suffer from frequent boredom in life, and now – just as Sydney was beginning to become…

I’ve been pretty quiet for the last month or so. In fact I realised a couple of days ago that this is the least I’ve even used Twitter since 2008. From an average of about 900 tweets a month, I…

Arguably the most important event in Korean history, the Korean War raged for 5 years and claimed over 3million lives before the battle was finally brought to a halt by international intervention in 1953. A Military Demarcation Line (MDL) was…

Knock knock. Errrdsflkgj… come in? Are you ready to go? Wait… what? [groan] Is it time to go? And so it begins. This week is the start of my new life. I’ve sold pretty much everything I own and reduced…

Here is another amazing selection of designs for your inspiration, enjoy! If you would like to submit something to Media Militia, please use Twitter and include @mediamilitia in your tweet or email contact@mediamilitia.com Some More Inspiration:…

Here is another amazing selection of designs for your inspiration, enjoy! If you would like to submit something to Media Militia, please use Twitter and include @mediamilitia in your tweet or email contact@mediamilitia.com Some More Inspiration:…

For the last two and a half years, I’ve been self-employed. I’ve worked on building up a small web design business, I’ve had a lot of fun with side projects, I’ve written a book, I’ve worked with some amazing companies…

Hi there. If you’re reading this, you’ve probably never read my blog before – you probably Googled for how to get your PDF file or eBook from Adobe Digital Editions onto your iPad or Kindle. As of the 22nd of…

So I’ve just returned from Manchester after an excellent weekend at the Travel Bloggers Unite conference. I thought I’d pause for a moment in the sunshine on my way back from the station in Lincoln to reflect on my takeaways…

Almost exactly a year ago, I joined the WordPress Core UI Team. Since then I’ve had the pleasure of doing and speaking about some of the most challenging and rewarding work of my career to date. Today, I’m exploring a…

These are guidelines for happy customers. I’m writing them because I spend too much time being an unhappy customer. Customer Service Priority Levels Customer service exists, for the most part, to help customers when things fail. On that basis, the…

For more than a year, I’ve been working on a little startup called BioThemes. Last week, it finally launched and is now open to the world.…

I’ve given this talk a couple of times now, but I’ve finally got some great video footage to go with it from my recent session at Heart&Sole in Portsmouth, so I thought I’d put it up here. This is the…

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About a year and a half ago I was drafted to Dribbble - and in the beginning, it was pretty cool. There were all of about 200 users at the time, everyone was pretty friendly and it was fun to explore…

If you don’t like the idea of working for somebody else and you’re quite attracted to idea of world domination then starting a web design business might be right up your alley.Unfortunately though, contrary to popular speculation, it’s not an…

If you want to pursue full-time employment in the web design industry but not in an agency, then chances are that you’ll be looking at working as an in-house web designer or developer for an internet based company.This type of…

Client relationships almost always start out really well. You’re both excited to be working together, they’re looking forward to a new site and you’re looking forward to creating something really amazing.Sometimes it stays this way throughout the process and the…

Working with clients is one of the most difficult parts of being a web designer.It’s a challenge which we face each and every day, regardless of whether we work in-house, as freelancers, or as agency owners.Some clients are great, while…