About
I am a web designer living in Athy, Co. Kildare and working in Dublin.
As well as creating websites, I run an online shop for printed goods called The Bleed Edge and I also run the Support Web Standards website, along with Jeffrey Zeldman. We have a small range of products to help promote web standards. I'm currently helping out with a project for the Web Standards Project, Small Business + Web Standards.
About this site
This is the second version of the blog at this domain. I've overhauled some cosmetic stuff in September 2011. The site has a HTML5 doctype, but I haven't adopted the new tags. The blogging engine is a custom built PHP CMS. I do not have comments enabled, but if you send me a message, I will be sure to respond and post a follow-up if necessary.
I had a stylesheet switcher on the first incarnation of this version, but I removed it because the PHP sessions were overkill and my new styles combined a dark and light colour scheme.
Elsewhere
I do like to take photos and post them to Flickr. It's probably my favourite social network. I have recently joined Dribbble, which is great and I post stuff I'm working on quite regularly. I also occasionally post on Twitter. I do read a lot, so I keep track of books I have read by reviewing them (badly) on Posterous.
Family Ties
My family is well represented online- my wife writes the Soap blog and is a professional portrait photographer, my oldest sister is the Gingerbread Lady, my next oldest sister writes the Nest blog, my younger sister runs the Cutie Rage Boutique.
My father blogs way more often than me and takes photos and posts them on Flickr. My younger brother also takes (lots of) photos. My youngest brother is the Energizer Bunny of drummers and records his drum covers on You Tube.