Some sniffing around web.archive.org has made me aware that it will soon be 10 years since I put up my first freelance portfolio website. August 2003. I was so wet behind the ears I'm surprised said ears didn't drown.

After finding out about the 123reg 'My 1st Website Competition', I thought this would be an excellent opportunity for some blog-based reminiscence and forward looking.

A post about how life drawing might be a helpful activity for the tired designer, and also how the problems of life drawing are similar to the problems faced by designers - web, print or other.

Oh and deodorant. I also mention deodorant a few times. For some reason.

A post about how to deal with IE8 and under when it comes to responsive web design and media queries. Topics covered include:

• Polyfills
• Conditional comments
• box-sizing
• CSS segmentation
• Inspecting for values

"Early in the morning, just as day is dawning, Kev feels he can offer a high quality e-mail newsletter design, development and send-out service."

A post on how I go about coding e-newsletter templates. The post includes some help tips and tricks and the like. Read it and weep. Well actually just read it. Thanks.