Phil Morrow

Learning by Doing - Pucker and Bloat

Phil Morrow — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:33:29 GMT

Whenever I stumble upon a good tutorial which I think I can really learn from, I bookmark it and try to find the time to mimic the effect. A few days ago I read an excellent tutorial by Veerle Pieters called illustrator Pucker and Bloat Effect and more and thought I’d give it a go as I very rarely use the pucker and bloat distortion tool.

Semantic Coding: The Bottom Line

Phil Morrow — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:26:02 GMT

Chances are you’ll know that HTML is your means of serving up content and that your pretty gradients and curved edges should be applied with CSS. So as soon as you started using CSS properly you instantly started advocating semantics and using it as a marketing tool on your website. But are you actually coding semantically…?

Grey with Envy [3]

Phil Morrow — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:51:07 GMT

Anyone who has been keeping an eye on my website over the past few weeks will have noticed that it recently went through a colour transformation from bottle green to shades of grey. So why, when I was so close to finishing, did I decide to completely change the colour scheme?

Site Finished? a.k.a. The Never Ending To-Do List

Phil Morrow — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:22:44 GMT

Finally I’ve got the site to a launch-able state! I must be my own worst client – the scope creep I have had to put up with over this past few weeks is insane. I just need a bit of tweaking here and there…

Why Textpattern? [6]

Phil Morrow — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:47:08 GMT

It was always my intention to have a blog when I eventually got around to producing my personal portfolio. All my experience with blog design had been in Wordpress and so that was the obvious choice, so why did I end up with Textpattern?