About

Who is this Mark guy?

I am a 21 year old currently based in Essex UK working as a Web Designer and Salesforce.com Administrator at respected solutions provider Majenta Solutions Limited. I really enjoy playing around with bits of code as well as dabbling in graphical design.

This website is currently…

• A portal for all my social media activities, or just simply a lifestream.
• A portfolio of my design and development work.
• Occasionally a blog where I talk about… anything.
• A place where I can fool around with HTML/XHTML, CSS, PHP, jQuery and anything else I decide to take interest in.

About my website

This whole website was lovingly crafted out of the finest pixels by myself… uh huh. The majority of the website is based on clever CSS & XHTML with a splash of jQuery.

Here’s a list of resources used for building this monster:

The clever stuff

• Wordpress 2.9.1
  Backbone of the entire website, CMS/Blogging software.
• wp-Lifestream
  Wordpress plugin powering the front page.
• FancyBox for WordPress
  FancyBox Wordpress plugin for sexy modal boxes.
• Google Talk Chatback Badge
  Customised in to the “Say Hello” button down over there.
• Google Latitude Location Badge
  Enhanced with homebrew PHP to print the coordinates in the sidebar.

The pretty stuff

• jQuery
  Adding sexy animation to websites since 2006.
• CSS + CSS3
  CSS, HTML’s wife. CSS3, it’s mistress.
• Social Network Icon Pack
  Ridiculously rad social networking icons from Komodo Media.