About Me

I’m the author of The Book of CSS3: A Developer’s Guide to the Future of Web Design, released in May 2011, and have written for .Net magazine, and I used to write about the next version of CSS at CSS3.info. I have spoken at web development meetings and Ignite London (see my Lanyrd page, below). I’m actively looking for more speaking and writing opportunities.

* Note: You may not use my email address to contact me regarding link exchanges; I consider this spam, and will report it as such.

Social web

Most of the time I go under the user name of stopsatgreen (clever anagram):

• Twitter
• Lanyrd
• LinkedIn
• Delicious
• Flickr
• Last.fm
• Gowalla

Potted biography

I’ve been a professional developer since 2000. I’m self-taught (here’s my first effort at a viable website) and began as a freelancer during the .com boom, working for a variety of sites which no longer exist.

I took a permanent role at Designer City (RIP) and worked on websites for clients including Tesco, Firetrap and Arsenal.

After the demise of Designer City I stayed with Arsenal.com when it was taken over by Granada Media, then moved to Cisco Systems in 2004.

I wasn’t at Cisco long before I decided that I wanted to return to agency work, so in 2005 I left to join AND. Here I worked on a number of launches, for clients including August Equity, Carrot Communications and Craft Central.

From there I joined Preloaded, a digital agency in London creating information architecture, user experience, and writing front-end code on sites like Arts Council England.

After Preloaded I joined Poke as a developer, where I worked for clients including Orange (on The Feed homepage and the More From… mobile site, for example) and Skype.

I also built Preloaded and Poke’s current sites.

Here’s a selected portfolio of sites I’ve made.