I've been designing websites, on and off, since the end of 1998. Back then the web was a different place, partly because it included my first ever website, which I can only describe as horrendous. But hey, since then things have improved (just look at this pink and green slice of brilliance right here). This page showcases some of my past and present web work.

PouringBeans.com is a sort of blog and archive and communication thing all in one - basically somewhere that I and my friends Kev and Ian post messages and avoid forgetting about each other. We've also posted lots of our old websites and things on there to be revisited with a nostalgic smile.

Webtat was a website I ran for about a year with my comrade Al, from summer 2001 to 2002. We dubbed it the World's Worst Online Magazine.

Only seven 'issues' were ever produced, and each often had one or two pages identical to the previous edition where we ran out of time. It had puerile jokes and a smattering of bad language. And yet, somehow, it earned a cult following, not just among our friends but also among students in Sheffield and a handful of London cab drivers. Go figure.

I know, it's full of broken links and in-jokes. For some bits you had to know the people we were writing about. The bit that you really need to know to understand it, though, is that it was run in competition with Constantly Falling, a rival website run by our very good friends Kev and Ian. It offered a different range of things and style of doing things, but we had a sort of familiar rivalry going to help promote each other. In issue 5 we offer our response to their latest update, which was a Flash game allowing CF visitors to kill myself and Al in a variety of ways. In issue 7, CF was entirely given over to Kev and Ian's ransom demands and a photo story of how I was taken hostage. Unfortunately I don't have any of this available, but you can see Webtat's response here.

They're slightly dated now and a bit silly, but we enjoyed doing them and I think they're still pretty funny. Click a front cover to see one.

I am (as you might be aware) more than a bit interested in radio - it's what I studied at university. While I was there I spent three years producing a show on campus radio with Mark (hence the title "Mark and Chris"). In the first year, when we presented the Friday breakfast show, we got all excitable I created a website to publicise it. It didn't do much, but it was still a lot of fun. Have a look by clicking the screenshot below.

More information on our show is in the Radio section of the website.