Handstand Press

Live at last.

I've been squeezing the design and construction of Handstand Press' new website in around my rather busy days at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. After too-ing and fro-ing, proprietor Liz Nuttal and I settled on this simple site, inspired by both Mondrian and the Cumbrian countryside, not a usual combination, it must be said.

Handstand Press publishes local history, fiction and poetry by Cumbrian writers and about Cumbria from her home in striking distance of the book town of Sedburgh.



Logo designed and drawn by Ellie Chaney

Design Jack Website

Another update to my website driven by a client. I've been experimenting with driving Flickr images to a website to create a flexible site for a local (Edinburgh) photographer to showcase her work. I came across the excellent Pictobrowser, a free, online gallery maker which can be embedded in your webpage of blog. So you get much of the convenience of a Content Management System without the database hassle. You can change the images called just by editing your Flickr sets. Alas, only for photos.

Design Jack Website (at long last)

After years of claiming it would happen, my website is finally live, well, live-ish. Still missing one page, which seems a bit easy to remedy, unless you consider that a similar page has taken me the best part of this long weekend and last weekend to get up as it contains 50-odd layers. So be nice, but comments and corrections more than welcome. And yes, Jonathan Bean, I've probably missed photo credits.

So, if you have the time, take a look at www.designjack.co.uk.