For the first installment of Things of Interest! since adopting a regular blog schedule, I bring you this series of articles on the awesomeness that is Fireworks and a swashbuckling tale of how I came to use Fireworks in the first place.

When I built my first ever website, I didn’t design it. I knew what I wanted the main colours to be, and through trial and error with CSS eventually came up with something I quite liked. It was hideous, of course, but I wasn’t to know. A lot of your design ability will come through [...]

We’ve all been there. You know you’re unlikely to find anything that pays more than $4 an hour, but work is thin on the ground and you’re feeling optimistic. Thirteen hours later you’ve watched 8 seemingly sensible buyers fall for the cut and paste bids, had 2 people tell you you’ll never make it in [...]

For some reason, on a semi-regular basis another person I know will say to me something along the lines of : “You taught yourself all this web stuff, I want to do it too. Teach me?” My usual reaction is a sort of resigned sigh, since their newfound desire to learn soon fizzles out rendering [...]