I’m crap at writing these things. I’m a Front-end Web Developer from Nottinghamshire, UK. I work specially with WordPress on CMS style sites and Opencart for online shops. I like to try (not always possible) to write semantic, clean code; code is poetry after all. I work for Dijitul, a Web Development agency in Mansfield, UK where I spend my days writing HTML5, CSS, jQuery and PHP. Occasionally I open up Photoshop for something other than cutting up a PSD. I also like running when I’m not working as well as taking some photos from time to time.

Your users aren’t stupid. Stop thinking they are.

N.B So I was going to put this post on to the @dijitul blog but on reflection its a bit ranty so figured I’d post it here instead. Remember folks the opinions included here are mine and those of a small welsh miner called Melvin.

So I want to apologise in advance for the rant I’m about to launch about website owners. Hold on to your hats.

There’s been a fewRead More

New Design and Site

So I figured after having a bit of break from work stuff for the weekend I’d give my site a bit of a rework and a redesign. I’ve had my old site for a while now and a change is as good as a rest or so they say, so I figured I’d freshen things up a bit.

With this new layout I went back to basics and rewrote the site from the groundRead More

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