Announcing my book on BuddyPress theme development

What started out as an email enquiry to me has ended in the start of my first book. I’m really excited to announce I will be writing a book on BuddyPress theme development. It’s a really cool time and apt to be writing a book on BuddyPress themes. So, how did this all come about? [...]

What is a community designer?

Pretty much every time someone asks me ‘what do you do’ it’s a 50/50 bet as to if my response is met with a puzzled expression. People get the designer bit but the community bit seems to send minds to town planning or wandering if I’m just making things up. I’ve decided to write this [...]

Musings from a device free designer on appropriate tools

I think one of the issues as illustrated in articles like ModemLoopers is an easiness to jump to the worst examples and broad stroke a solution. My own thoughts are a more flexible ‘per situation’ solution is the best one. Just like you don’t repeat the same design over and over again – responsive, adaptive… mobile apps all have their place it’s picking from the toolbox and using the right one for the case.

2012 in a bit of a long nutshell

2012 kind of started out a little quieter for me than most years. I was plodding along with some great clients and contributing where I could. Things certainly picked up though and I feel truly lucky for what I’ve experienced this year and look forward to 2013. A year in talks I started what I [...]

Moving the blogging furniture

I set myself a few goals over the Christmas holidays and a one of them was around blogging. For most of this year I’ve blogged far more on other sites than I have here and I even reset the archives with my move last year. I want to change this focus away from my own [...]

WordCamp Netherlands 2012

I attended WordCamp Netherlands last week and was lucky to also be able to do a talk there. If one word was used to sum up the experience it would be amazing. The event itself was whilst only my second WordCamp I have a feeling going to be a hard one to top as was [...]