John Rainsford

About

John Rainsford

This website and the blog posts within, represent my interests, mostly design related, and is where I try to collect all my contributions to the web.

I work as a freelance designer, on contract and through my small web design studio, Pixelcode. While most of my work is in web design, I am also a proficient print designer, having learned my craft in CMYK before RGB.

About this site

This site is still, technically, the second version of the blog at this domain. This most recent update is a complete aesthetic overhaul (the last aesthetic update was more a 'massaging' of the previous design) and the CSS/HTML has been rewritten to streamline it. This site uses Sass and I cannot recommend it enough.

Every month I hope to change the colour scheme used throughout the site. This is made infinitely easier by the use of variables in Sass. I hope to compile all the colours together at some point.

The blogging engine is my own PHP/MySQL driven site, which has served me faithfully for the past two years.

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.

Family Ties

My family is well represented online- one of my sisters is the Gingerbread Lady and the other writes the Nest blog. My father blogs more often than I do and my brother is a well-watched drummer on YouTube and posts his drum videos there.

Work with me

I am interested in all design projects, especially web design (UX/front-end coding) and branding. 

I've worked with these nice folks and they had these kind words to say:

 

John Rainsford is a talented, energetic, and self-motivated designer with both web and traditional graphic design skills. His HTML is top-notch, his eye for the visually appealing is strong and true, and his enthusiasm is the best kind of infectious.

Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder, Happy Cog™, author, Designing With Web Standards

 

John is a web design craftsman. He is talented, considerate, and laser-focused on creating amazing designs atop impeccable code. He is also a joy to work with.

Aaron Gustafson, Principal, Easy! Designs, LLC, author, Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement

 

Please contact me to discuss your project.

 

Side Projects

I run the Support Web Standards website with Jeffrey Zeldman and I designed the Web Standards Project: Small Business + Web Standards, lead by Aaron Gustafson.

I also run a small shop online, The Bleed Edge, where I sell a few different products that I produce myself.

I have another exciting side-project in the pipeline which should be launched really soon.

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