Antony Golding

Six months later…

Antony — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:29:21 +0000

It’s been a while since my last entry and from the running perspective, plenty has happened. I’ve ran new personal best times for both 10k and half marathon races, ran every day for a month, and kept on track for my 1,000 miles in 2009 challenge. My running year started with the Great North West Half [...]

Running updates

Antony — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:57:43 +0000

Another marathon, another retirement! Number four was completed on 7 December 2008, this time the Las Vegas Marathon – my fourth in three years and a month. Just like after all of the others, I’ve decided to retire from full marathons and concentrate on smaller races such as 10k or half marathons. The main reason for [...]

24 ways returns

Antony — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:00:31 +0000

The time of year has arrived when 24 ways, the advent calendar for all web designers and developers, returns. From 1 to 24 December, a daily article containing ‘web design and development goodness’ is published. The first installment, ‘Easing The Path from Design to Development‘, provides a useful reference on handing over a project from a [...]

The Quays

Antony — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:12:08 +0000

Last week saw the launch of the new version of The Quays website, created by a partnership of businesses and organisations with interests in the Salford Quays area. The difficulties of cross-browser rounded corners were highlighted during the design implementation. For CSS3 compliant browsers (or ones that support border-radius or a browser-specific alternative – such as [...]

Vote Obama

Antony — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:35:01 +0000

If you can, geographically speaking, please do so.

Take a fresh look…

Antony — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:09:17 +0000

… or get your marketeers to steal someone else’s promotional campaign. For almost a year, Salford City Council’s Visit Salford website, leaflets and poster campaigns have all contained the phrase “Take a fresh look at Salford” as the main strapline. Despite such a close proximity to Salford, which adjoins their town, Bolton Council have pilfered the strapline [...]

Recent project launches

Antony — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:16:28 +0000

insalford.com insalford.com is a new ‘portal’ site for Salford residents, visitors to the city, and business owners and employees, providing links through to the most appropriate content provider. The site was conceived by the Salford Partnership and implemented by Salford’s Marketing and Communications team. Visit Salford Our existing tourism website, Visit Salford, is now sporting its autumnal design, [...]

Mia Rose

Antony — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:59:16 +0000

My darling, adorable, beautiful new daughter, Mia Rose Golding, born 8/8/8 at 1.34pm, weighing 7lbs 1oz. Her time of birth and weight numbers all add up to 8, making her a very lucky baby!

More recognition for Salford

Antony — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:52:44 +0000

Hot on the heels of receiving January’s accessibility award, Salford City Council’s corporate site has today been named as one of the country’s leading local authority websites. Better Connected 2008, a survey of all 468 council websites, ranks Salford as one of only four ‘excellent’ rated sites. We also received a special commendation as part [...]

Daddy to be!

Antony — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:28:33 +0000

I’m absolutely delighted to announce that on (or around) 9th August 2008, I will become a father! My partner Cheryl and I are both over the moon, and we can’t wait for the big day to arrive! We had our 12 week scan this week, and everything seems fine so the time is right to announce [...]