“Play first.
Work if you have the time.„ ~ Donald Loosli
Site Credits
The design of this site was completely inspired by Brighton, a lovely seaside town in the UK where I lived for 5 years. At night I’d take walks along the promenade and Palace Pier, surrounded by old peeling Victorian Gothic architecture, dramatic black spiky street lights, squawking seagulls and all the colourful lights from the street. I’d take my glasses off while I walked so that the lights would all blur and scatter around me in a soft colourful haze.
This site was put together in less time than it should have taken, thanks to the wonderful free WordPress content management system, and the hard work of so many developers who have released free plugins that have allowed me to create the site of my dreams. Here is the list of free plugins and other code snippets I have used:
Free Code Snippets
- JQuery {fancy shmancy visual effects}
- Photoshop Vector Polishing Techniques
- Beautiful double quotes
- CSS3 shadow effect
- CSS 2 element opacity
- floating div {used to create back to top button}
- jQuery fade on mouseover
- collapsible toggled divs
Free WordPress Plugins
- Resize images on the fly
- query posts WP plugin {allows me to call up and display posts in any way necessary on the blog}
- custom link love {regular commenters are now rewarded with dofollow links}
- WordPress theme hacks
- AntiVirus {a smart, effectively solution to protect your blog against exploits and spam injections}
- Dagon Design Form Mailer {used for my contact form}
- Facebook Comments TNG {Facebook notes comments grabber}
- Improved Include Page {include a post or page inside another page}
- My Page Order {set the order of pages through a drag and drop interface}
- Last.FM for WordPress {displays my Last.fm recently listened tracks}
- Recent Comments {shows a list of the most recent comments on the sidebar}
- Search Meter {keep track of what your visitors are searching for}
- Subscribe to Comments {allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry}
- Wicket Twitter Widget {used to display my twitter feed on the blog page}
- WordPress Database Backup {sends me a daily backup of my database}
- Smart YouTube {inbed xhtml strict valid video’s from YouTube}
Free Graphics
Client Testimonial
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“I have worked with Olivia on and off for nearly five years now. Olivia is fantastic to work with. She is quick and bright, and seems to always gets the brief spot on first time. Her designs are reliably usable, accessible and attractive – she is never over protective of them and understands clients’ needs. She is extremely fast and reliable, and will pull out all the stops if she knows I am in trouble with tight deadlines on a project!”
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