Simon North

A LITTLE ABOUT ME

Hey, so you're wondering who I am huh? Well, my name is Simon North (that bit you knew of course).
I am, by day a freelance web designer and developer based in England, where I specialise in Wordpress
Development and using jQuery to produce flashy websites. I work with clients from all over the world
and spend a lot of time honing my skills to become an even better designer.

LATEST THOUGHTS

28.06.09
Advertising the Pringle’s Way

Advertising is big business, you don’t need me to tell you that. If you are good at advertising it’s generally the case that you’ll live the luxurious penthouse bachelor lifestyle like you see in the movies, I always wanted that apartment in “What Women Want” with the views over the city.

Anyway, back on topic, the guys that create those little banner ads you see on websites, they tend not to be in the same position but after seeing a rather impressive ad the other day, maybe some should. I never normally click on adverts on websites because I know exactly what happens but I strongly recommend that you click on this advert: http://awardshome.com/cannes2009/pringles/can-hands.html

It’s advertising Pringle’s (my favourite crisps [chips to my American readers]), but in a rather ingenious manner. See they know that most people aren’t going to see an advert in a sidebar of a website and think “I know what I’ll click that” so they play on that idea and “talk” to you, with phrases like: “BTW, thanks for trusting our banner not to send you to a porn site”.
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24.06.09
Some of my Latest Template Releases

Since I last posted, I’ve released a number of templates on ThemeForest, so I’ll showcase them all in one post, they have been received well and 2 of the 3 seem to be bestsellers so I’m very happy.
Long Brown Folio

Long Brown Folio is a one-page portfolio website template that scrolls smoothly between each section. It [...]
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24.06.09
Working from home again

After having an office for the past 8 months I decided to move my office back into my apartment when I moved to a new place. The reason I moved into an office in the first place was because of motivation issues and the fact that I couldn’t concentrate because there were too many distractions.
So [...]
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23.03.09
Tabfolio Template Released

Now that I have gotten on top of my client work I was able to spend a bit of time developing a new template for ThemeForest. So as a result I am proud to release Tabfolio.
Tabfolio is a HTML/CSS portfolio template driven by jQuery. The use of jQuery has enabled me to add a horizontal [...]
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15.03.09
Relaunch Case Study: Codethatdesign

I have been running Codethatdesign for about 9 months and in that time I have built up a number of regular clients and am continuing to get new clients on a daily basis so it has been a triumph. However, the site has remained pretty much the same in all that time, so over the past month or so I have been working on a facelift.

As it is a coding service, it was imperative that it followed coding standards and the code itself and the items in the portfolio were top notch, so I have spent a lot of time developing it to ensure that it as effective as possible to potential clients.
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11.03.09
Project Case Study: Eric Nunlee

For the past couple of months I have been working with a fantastic graphic designer based in New York, Eric Nunlee. He came to me with a brilliant design that he wanted to be integrated with Wordpress and I took on the challenge, it was by far one of the biggest projects I had taken [...]
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