Hello!
My name is Anthony, I’m 30 and I live in Croydon (borders of South London & Surrey) with my wife (the love of my life) & my two sons.
Besides my wife & boys, I have two great passions in my life. The web & music. I’ve always been fond of design & technology, and for me, the web brings the two together.
I got started in the web in ’98. I had been searching the web looking for some music reviews, but couldn’t find any decent websites. I looked into making one myself as I thought it’d be fun (and I had spare time on my hands). This involved a copy of Claris HomePage and Paint Shop Pro.
I’m a freelance designer and front end developer who has a creative spark and a thirst for knowledge! I love getting my teeth stuck into a new project and generally design and build websites from scratch. It’s always nice to collaborate with others though!
I’ve learnt a lot about design and code through developing other peoples designs and similarly, I’ve previously enjoyed producing designs for other developers to create. In fact, I’ve even blogged about it.
I’ve got a real hankering for learning new tricks, tools or techniques. In 2011, I collaborated with Adam Onishi & Clinton Montague to produce the 12 Devs of Xmas, a project written by 12 different authors, who all produce an article on a different new technology.
On a similar learning tip, I’ve also teamed up with Stephen Fulljames and Paul Adam Davis on 12412.org, a collaborative learning community. It’s open to the public and anyone can sign up and start learning. We don’t tell you what to learn – you tell us what you’re learning. And through regular blog posts by the team members, other people can learn too!
I’m also actively developing Conftweets.com, an unofficial ‘back-channel’ for events and conferences in the web industry. It collates tweets using specific hashtags and displays it in a handy list.
Additionally, I organise a monthly meetup in Croydon for digital types. Designers, illustrators and creative people in general. It’s a chance to step away from the screen and meet some like minded individuals in a pub and chat about anything over a pint and some food! Maybe you’d like to come along? The CroydonCreativ.es
Among other things (like a full-time day job), I created Conflist, a tool to make sure you’re prepared for your conference visits. I’m also the technical guy for the TrueVIP podcast service and also the guy behind dance music site, ukgarage.org
Feel free to check out my portfolio to see my previous works – and should you want to, contact me if you’re in need of a designer or a front end developer.