Nick O'Sullivan | Web Design and Development

Web development & design blogs

Nick — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:18:57 +0000

Here are some of the web development & design blogs I follow. If web development & design is your thing, you should too!

Smashing Magazine

Nettuts+

CSS Globe

Steve Edmonds Drum Tutor

Nick — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:04:31 +0000

This site was made for a UK drum tutor based in West Sussex. Steve gave me a few ideas of what he wanted and we had a good talk over what was going to be included. I then jumped into designing the site for him and he loved the first draft which is what we went with (seen above, click to enlarge or visit the site).

Shortly after this, I produced the fully functional website. Steve was delighted with it and was very happy with the speed at which it took to deliver the final product.

The website has got great feedback from users and really helps to bring in business for Steve.

HTML
CSS
Javascript

Graphic Design

Cross browser CSS gradients

Nick — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:51:53 +0000

Most people know that it’s possible to create gradient backgrounds now with CSS3 in firefox, chrome safari.

With the following 4 lines of CSS you can get the same gradient in all CSS3 compatible browsers and IE 5.5+.

background-image:-moz-linear-gradient(top, #ededed, #fff);/* FF3.6 */
background-image:-webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0, #ededed),color-stop(1, #ffffff)); /* Saf4+, Chrome */
filter:  progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr='#ededed', EndColorStr='#ffffff'); /* IE 5.5,IE6,IE7 */
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr='#ededed', EndColorStr='#ffffff')"; /* IE8 */

Check out the DEMO

BCP 350th Anniversary

Nick — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:20:06 +0000

This site was made for The Prayer Book Society who wanted a site to celebrate the 350th anniversary of The Book of Common Prayer. This was a very enjoyable project to work on and I got great feedback from the client and users.

Take a look at the site by clicking ‘Launch Project’ on the right.

HTML
CSS
Javascript
PHP

Mailing List
Maintenance

Free icon sets

Nick — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:40:24 +0000

Below are a few icon sets I use regularly. Enjoy.

FAMFAMFAM Silk Icons
“Silk” is a smooth, free icon set, containing over 700 16-by-16 pixel icons in strokably-soft PNG format. Very useful.

Socialize Icon Set
A nice, fresh looking set of Social Icons.

Function Icon Set
128 icons for use in any project, nice variety here.

Subsplash Logo

Nick — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:23:51 +0000

Logo design for Brighton’s dubstep promotion company Subsplash.

This logo has been used in flyers, posters, stickers, banners and merchandise.

TB|PR Website

Nick — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:55:32 +0000

This is a website developed for TB|PR.

The website was designed and developed from scratch, keeping simplicity and ease of use in mind.

HTML
CSS
Javascript
PHP

Graphic Design

Subsplash Website

Nick — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:14:58 +0000

This site was made for the dubstep promotion company Subsplash. They are based in Brighton and I’ve helped them beyond the creation of this website from scratch. My other work for them included banners, leaflets, stickers and other print. I also designed their logo which can be viewed here.

The website has got great feedback from users. It’s updated frequently and used by a great number of people, the client was very happy.

HTML
CSS
Javascript
PHP

eCommerce
Server setup
Maintenance
Graphic Design
Internet Radio

Hello world!

Nick — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:03:11 +0000

… And so it begins!

Along with the new site I will be starting to blog here, so watch this space!