http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog A dangerous mind is a wonderful thing to possess Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:28:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's only taken me a year and a half to get round to adding these but here they are: Christmas flash games The ski and particularly the snowball game were quite tricky to create but I was really happy with the results at the time. The idea was to help entice customers ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/christmas-flash-games-added/ I like it when I get on sites, it makes me feel warm inside, I then like to tell people about it, hence this post. Soon I will think of something better to write about, until then, all you have are my selfish, ego-feeding lists of sites that the binge ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/sites-the-binge-has-recently-managed-to-feature-on/ I always like to show people work I'm proud of, maybe to ego trip or for an innocent pat on the back, I'm not sure. Lately I haven't been able to share much I have done either as I've had to be secret or the sites haven't gone live yet, ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/yay/ I've decided to start offering this service again. In the past I've designed about 5 band websites (including pre-signed pigeon detectives!) and I quite enjoy them as they allow for creativity and also they have pose the challenge of matching the design to the style of music. I usually just ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/band-website-design/ (creative/design/skills wise) I need to improve my skillz somehow I reckon. "How? They're already so good?" I hear you say. My design skills seem to naturally progress aslong as I keep myself busy but I'd like to improve some aspect of my skills further to gain the satisfaction or stop any ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/things-id-like-to-do-but-probably-wont-this-year/ Now and again (i try not to be too obsessive about it) I peruse my google analytics. Perhaps this is through boredom or self gratification, I'm not sure but one of the highlights of this experience for me is looking at the weird keywords people have found my site with: 'e-motivator' ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/strange-search-terms-people-have-found-this-site-with/ I wouldn't read TOO much into this picture. I did the heart and knife before, a litttleee bit expressionistic perhaps, but I wouldn't worry about my sanity, I'm pretty much a certified sane person. Maybe I'm taking away any validity from this picture but more than anything I wanted to ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/knife/ No, I haven't lost the ability to logically structure a set of words, also known as a sentance, this really is the top, top collections of top 10 lists! What's better than the hundreds of top list posts that swamp sites such as digg.com? A post of the top 10 ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/top-10-top-top-10-lists/ Adding texture and realism to web designs is a very popular current trend. You don’t have to look far for examples: http://alifelski.com/ http://meaganfisher.com/ http://www.wallswaps.com/ Photoshop is the obvious tool for texture, as well as the 1000s of Photoshop brushes and textured stock images that can be handy, Photoshop’s array of filters and blending options ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/glitter-photoshop-tutorial/ You don't have to look far nowadays to see what's becoming a typical feature on many sites, the horizontal javascript slider. Either through mootools, jquery or some other javascript framework, they make it easy to achieve effective results through little code. The slide serves many purposes but I guess it's a ... http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/blog/simple-jquery-slider/