Chris Owens

Book of Styles should be returning sometime today.
That re-opening has already slipped from 7th September, so keep your fingers crossed.
Update: Will open on 1st October, see site for details.

As some of you may know, I’m studying for a degree in Multimedia & Website Development at my local University.
Anyway, I recently received my results after a mix-up in the marking of 2 of my modules… to cut a long story short, after almost 3 months of waiting for the correct results to be submitted [...]

In a week dominated by the Arsenal & Manchester United “big brawl”, there are no big games, and no real derby games this weekend… so maybe it will be a good week for my predictions?
Game of the weekend, in my opinion is going to be… erm… I’m not sure.
As usual, here are my predictions:

Arsenal 2 [...]

Jeremy Keith, the guy behind Adacio has written a rather interesting article on CSS Based Design that covers quite a lot of ground. It comes complete with a Matrix style introduction that adds a little humour to the subject.
It is quite an interesting and easy article to read and will no doubt provide plenty of [...]

Nick has released another beta version of his amazing RSS news aggregator FeedDemon.
I urge you to download, install and use it, but be sure to read the release notes.
While I’m at it, I was speaking to a friend of mine today, and it crossed my mind that everyone in the web design/development industry owes Nick [...]

Dan Cederholm has updated his SimpleQuiz with Part VIII, Titles.
Update: read the conclusion.

Part VII of SimpleBit’s SimpleQuiz is now online.
With each question that Dan poses, I find myself thinking “deeper” about the semantics and meaning of page elements than I ever have… It’s top-notch stuff!
Update: read the conclusion.

The game of the weekend is Manchester United vs Arsenal, with United winning big this week in the Champions League and arsenal losing quite heavily, I predict a pretty stale affair between the two sides.
I also think that this weekend will be a pretty boring one, filled with draws and low scoring games.

Aston Villa 1 [...]

While I was away on holiday Dan Cederholm posted a few more questions in his SimpleQuiz, and has since posed a few more semantics based questions, I’ve listed all the questions that have been posed since the start upto the time of posting.
Go ahead and have a read, you’ll be suprised what you will learn… [...]

I’m struggling with “designer’s” block at the moment, and have scrapped about 3 different designs up to now.
Normally, its lack of inspiration or tiredness that knocks me a bit off-side, but for the past few days my mind has just been numb for no reason at all.
So I put it to you: What do you [...]