Hi.
My name is Steve.
I am a Web Designer

I've been designing and building web sites since 2003. This is my personal site. You'll find my work, insight and ramblings within. Welcome.

Instructions under the lid

I’ve signed up for O2 broadband (again) this week, and I’ve been quite impressed with their service for setting things up. For every step you get an e-mail, then a text, which is great and keeps me up to date with how everything is going.

What’s better than that is the new router that they’ve sent me, other than that it arrived before the text saying it was on its way. The packaging on it is really quite clever and …

This is an opinion piece about Microsoft’s Windows 7 Series phones. The opinions are my own and not that of my employer.

I remember the ‘good old days’. Back in 2004 (at uni) I tried to create a Windows CE program for a little mobile device. My friends and I spent months trying to get it to work (at one point resorting to Java, quickly realising our mistake), and in the end all we could produce was a list of …

This is the second part of a series on the construction of my blog. In this post, I’ll be focusing on the underlying HTML5 markup.

When I started making this blog, I had a decision about what language to use underneath. The choices were simple: HTML4, XHTML 1.0, or HTML5. The first two options represent the old school of HTML, both based on standards from 1999, with tags which have worked for years and are well understood and supported across all …