HeyBuzz

Hey! I'm Pete, and I'm a designer... and this is my blog - about web design, for web designers. Here you'll find all kinds of tips, tricks, information and inspiration linking, in some way, to web design.

The Archives

August 2008

  • I Need Your Help!

    Posted in My Work, Web Design
    On Sun 31 August (Permalink, 5 Comments)

    I’ve been working on re-designing my portfolio, as the work on my current one (visit) is a bit out of date. These days I mainly focus on digital projects - so the ‘new’ site needs to reflect that both in content and in style.
    For whatever reason, I decided to go for a re-design of my [...]

  • Weekly Review 2

    Posted in My Work, Weekly Review
    On Sun 31 August (Permalink, No Comments)

    25th - 31st August, 2008
    Doesn’t seem like a week ago that I wrote my first weekly review - time sure does fly when you’re busy as hell! Anyway, I’ve not accomplished as much as last week, but here’s what’s been going down…

  • Facebook vs. China

    Posted in Web Bling
    On Fri 29 August (Permalink, No Comments)

    Not really, but Zuckerberg announced yesterday that Facebook has just passed the 100 million active users mark. That’s the equivalent of every single active internet user in China (source). Quite an achievement!

  • Useful Applications

    Posted in Reference Tools, Web Development
    On Fri 29 August (Permalink, No Comments)

    There are two web applications that I’ve been using a lot recently which I want to tell you about. The first is something called Coded Preview. It’s a very simple (and free) application which enables you to upload a flat website concept, and display it centered, tiled, with a background or whatever - all on [...]

  • Learn. Fail. Succeed

    Posted in My Work, Quotes
    On Tue 26 August (Permalink, No Comments)

    On the new POP website, filed under the Senior Designer “What you’ll do” heading
    Learn. Fail. Learn. Succeed. Repeat.
    Yep, that sounds about right. Although I feel that ‘Make Tea’ would be a suitable addition. It is, after all… the solution!

Hey!

HeyBuzz is a collection of musings, learning's, tips and inspiration... mostly about digital stuff, as observed by Buzz.

Buzz is a sailor, skier, extreme sports enthusiast and designer living in London. He enjoys loud music, trying new things and talking crap. He doesn't really like reading though!

You can visit Buzz's sexy new design portfolio at BuzzGraphics.co.uk

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