Nantes Design

26/09/2019

When the budget allows do you A/B test? It's always fascinating when you see what works and what doesn't work. Just because it looks nicer and is cleaner doesn't necessarily mean it'll work.

Amazon found the courage to run a beautiful a/b test where they put their old three column product page layout against a new two column one. Although the two column layout was arguably more beautiful with the addition of white space, margins and shadows, it was nevertheless rejected. Before it was r...

25/09/2019

Have you got a WordPress site? A few little things I generally try to do before launching each website to speed them up :)

I’m slightly obsessed with website speed. Taking a website from a sluggish unresponsive mess to a fast and optimised site gives me a lot of joy. I guess it’s a bit like a puzzle. Find bottlenecks. Figure out what you can tweak then change, test, and repeat. Dropping from a couple of seconds down...

24/09/2019

When you teach a WordPress class you might as well put your money where you mouth is and use it for your own website. The challenge (though not a huge one) ... only using freely available plugins / themes.

Last week for the second year running saw me hosting a two day workshop on WordPress at L’école de design, Nantes. Roughly three years ago I needed to put together my CV and a quick portfolio for said work at the school so I launched my website. It was built with a rather basic HTML …

27/05/2019

The joy of web design ... I was sent this today. It's quite apt though ... how much for a website?

14/06/2018

I've just added the 3000th show to the Town Hall Theatre in Galway ... WOW :) Town Hall Theatre Galway here was the first one I added though there were listings before this ... :) that I was updating

14/05/2018

Today's blast from the past is my old company site from back when I first started out ... Not sure if this is 2002 or 2003

11/05/2018

Thanks everyone for the likes ... I've ended up with my Vanity URL for the page so https://fb.me/NantesDesign44 (as NantesDesign was already taken unfortunately)

10/05/2018

I'm not 100% sure when I started working with the Town Hall Theatre Galway but it's about 12 years now :o I think I'd made the Project'06 Website and then started on the THT ... that's a LOT of shows added / banners created :)

08/05/2018

Most people react to a .design with awe ... what? your domain is https://nantes.design but where's the dot com part or .fr ? :D Here's an old graphic I made for Blacknight promoting .design :)