Archive for July, 2010

Nest of Boxes : Alex Robertson Set & Costume Designer

Posted in Websites on July 30th, 2010

Nest of Boxes is a personal portfolio website for Alex Robertson a Set & Costume Designer for both theatre and television, who has worked on such series like ‘Home Time’, ‘Dr Who’ and ‘Gavin & Stacey’.

After growing up in Cornwall and attending Falmouth College of Arts, Alex then trained in Theatre Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, graduating in 2005.

Since then, he has worked on numerous and varied productions around the country and into Europe, based mainly in Cardiff and London, his work has covered many forms of theatre and television, ranging from small to large scale productions, touring pieces, site specific and puppetry works.

3 Must Have WordPress Plugins For Web Developers

Posted in Articles on July 14th, 2010

I recently finished creating a portfolio website for a friend of mine using WordPress 3.0. Since the release of 3.0 I have found creating easy to mange websites a lot easier, especially since the new menu feature was added.

But my biggest issue with WordPress through its versions is its lack of customisation of the admin panel when you have it hand it over to an inexperienced user. Even when you setup someone up as a Editor they are still inundated with menus and functionality that they will never use.

This is where 3 must have plugins came to use, and allowed me to trailer the admin dashboard to my friends needs.