Publication

Movie Recommendations: Web Designer Takeover

Minute44 – 28/10/09

My good friend Dan runs the Minute44 blog and put together a really awesome post about web designers and their favourite movies. I was very honoured to be included in this list alongside some great names in the industry – and was pretty glad  to find that I wasn’t the only one with a geeky favourite movie! To find out what my favourite film was, hit the link above!

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10 Questions with John O’Nolan

Inspire Bit – 26/10/09

Inspire Bit is a great new design blog that already has a back catalog of articles from past endeavors. They very kindly asked me to take part in a ten question interview about web design, business, and where I see the industry going in the next few years. I had a great time answering all the questions with as much detail as I could muster, and the article has had a really great response so far!

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Making The Sale: Ice Cubes To Eskimos

Inspire Bit – 22/10/09

I was invited to be the special guest on the 2nd ever episode of The Web Squeeze podcast. During the course of the podcast myself, Linda Chadborne, and Jacob Haug discuss the finer points of winning new clients, watching out for red flags, dealing with clients, and growing your business by making more money and winning bigger projects. I had a great time recording the show!

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Link Building for SEO: The Truth Revealed

The Web Squeeze – 24/09/09

Link building is an important, but often very misunderstood area of Search Engine Optimisation. Currently there are a lot of people using spam tactics to try and get ahead, and thankfully those methods are becoming less and less effective. In this article for The Web Squeeze I share my views on where the industry is headed, what does work when it comes to link building.

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The Difference Between Art & Design

Web Designer Depot – 21/09/09

The subject of what separates art and design is convoluted and has been debated for a long time. Artists and designers both create visual compositions using a shared knowledge base, but their reasons for doing so are entirely different. In this article for Web Designer Depot. I explored the differences between the two, and gave away 5 unique desktop wallpapers.

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Interview with John O’Nolan of Lyrical Media

The Web Design Blog – 14/09/09

I was interviewed by Phil over at The Web Design Blog about starting a web design business, Wordpress as a platform, blogging, and lots more. It was by far the best interview that I’ve done so far and Phil asked some really interesting questions. There’s also a short video of one of my new-born puppies, who decided to man the keyboard midway through my typing.

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The Great Migration: Switching From PC to Mac

The Web Squeeze – 04/09/09

Switching from being a PC user to being a Mac user for the first time is a fairly daunting prospect. Once you know how to use a computer, you don’t really have any inclination to start all over again! But many people do switch from PC to Mac, and this article for The Web Squeeze was written to help them out during that process.

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Mail of The Month – Re: Bring Down IE6

.NET Magazine – August 09

In the August edition of .Net Magazine (or ‘Practical Web Design’ if you’re in the US), my email won the Mail of The Month award for my response to a previous letter to the magazine about supporting IE6. You can read my views on the matter and in what way I think that IE6 should be supported in a scan of the magazine on the link above.

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How To Create Your Own Dual Monitor Setup

The Web Squeeze – 24/08/09

One of the main things which I mentioned in my previous feature on The Web Squeeze was how much dual monitors boosted my productivity. As a result of this I was asked back to write an article for them about how users can go about setting up their very own dual monitor setups for both Mac and for PC. Tricks and tips included!

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Tools of The Trade: John O’Nolan

The Web Squeeze – 12/08/09

I was very honoured to be invited onto The Web Squeeze for my first real feature article/showcase. The topic of the day was “Tools of The Trade” for the web design industry. I covered my top 5 essential tools that I could not design websites without, and gave a couple of other useful applications and browser plugins too.

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Typographic Layout: O’No! Typography

Smashing Magazine – 08/07/09

I entered a competition for Smashing Magazine to design a typographic layout to be given away to the Smashing Magazine community. I was thrilled to finish 6th out of over 50 submitted entries, and receive many, many kind comments and emails from people who are now using the free website template, which can be downloaded from Smashing Magazine.

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Interview with John O’Nolan of Lyrical Media

MDS Web Studios – 27/03/09

I was very pleased to be interviewed by Michael Savage, the founder and Managing Director of MDS Web Studios about freelancing, starting a business, blogging, and promotion. MDS Web Studios are a company about the same age as Lyrical Media and are also currently in a rapid period of growth and expansion.

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Featured Desktop Wallpaper: Clinging To Colour

Smashing Magazine – 27/02/09

I designed a simple wallpaper for Smashing Magazine for their monthly desktop calendar series. I put together a typographic based layout with my thoughts and feelings at the time engraved into the background, and my own hand clinging to a striking group of coloured lines that cross the entire composition from top to bottom.

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Young Blogger Interview: John O’Nolan

New Web Business – 29/01/09

At the beginning of 2009 I was invited to do an interview with ‘New Web Business’ about the SEO blog I was running at the time, which had gone from strength to strength. My blog being referenced in the interview has since been acquired by a fantastic UK based SEO agency called SEO Positive, who still update and maintain the blog to this day.

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