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James Taylor Stables

Web Designer & Developer

I am an experienced Web Designer & Front-end Developer. I have been working professioanlly for just over 10 years and I love what I do.

Although I was born in Perth, Western Australia but am always moving around looking to help nice people build and sustain a better & more effective online presence.

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Things I love

  • Web Design.
  • Graphic Design.
  • Front-end Development.
  • Photography.
  • Ink and watercolor drawing.
  • The comedy of learning about life.

Things I have

  • Australian & UK/EU passport.
  • A massive library of inspirational code & design resources.
  • Basic French language skills.
  • Macbook Pro, Canon EOS 550D DSLR, iPhone 4S & an iPad4. (Not bragging, just saying I can test on different devices.)
  • A drive to design better every day.

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Experience

 

Antistandard E C University Webfirm Bam Creative
Web Designer/Owner Web Designer Web Designer Web Designer
HTML5,CSS3 & Wordpress Theme Building Website Re-design, Coding & Mobile Site Design & Development Web Site Design Concepts & Illustrations Client Liason, Brainstorming & Concept Presentation
Present - 2001 (11 years approx.) 2012 - 2009 (4 years) 2009 (1 year) 2008 (1 year)
www.antistandard.com www.ecu.edu.au www.webfirm.com www.bam.com.au

Education

 

E C University, Australia E C University, Australia CIT, Australia BCIT, Canada
Bachelor of Multimedia Web Design Certificate of Art & Design French Language Assoc. Certificate of Graphic Design
2001 - 1999 (3 years) 2011 (1 year) 1993 (1 year) Currently attending (6 months)
www.ecu.edu.au www.ecu.edu.au www.central.wa.edu.au www.bcit.ca

Skills

 

Tool Task Level
Photoshop Concept Design for desktop & mobile  
Illustrator Illustrations & Icon creating  
InDesign Print preparation & Document layout  
HTML5 Website development  
CSS3 LESS, Media queries & Responsive design  
jQuery Timers, Appending classes, Child selectors, Simple animation...  
Wordpress Theme creation & CMS  
UI, UX Typography, Color/Layout theory, User experience...  
PHP & MYSQL Database creation and manipulation  

Design & Development Journal

Awesome vector icons

by James Stables on 08 January, 2013

I bought these vector icons the other day because they rule so much. They are called Geomicons.

Described as Royalty-Free, Grid-Based Vector Icons for Web & UI Design, you can buy 256 solid vector icons (AI & EPS formats) for US$16. Additionally, you can buy 315 vector icons as outlined vectors rather than the solid ones (EPS format).

I think they are well priced and fit most modern styles of web and print work. I think that you do get what you pay for and I am always willing to throw down money for quality work.

jQuery tutorials for days

by James Stables on 24 January, 2013

Codrops has an extremely large library of jQuery tutorials. What makes this collection different is the relevance to the modern use of these tutorials and also the high quality of the design, creativity and function.

Like Stumbleupon, you will get lost for hours browsing and bookmarking the tutorials.

40 E-Books for $99

by James Stables on 13 February, 2013

Smashing Magazine has released all their E-Books to date for one price of US$99. You get the 4 main books and about 40 others all to do with modern Web Design & Development. I presume most of the books are expansions of the articles that they publish, however, to me that is not a bad thing at all.

I love reading Smashing Magazine's articles even if they are sometimes a little contraversial or general. In any case, I think $99 for 40 E-books specialising on CSS3, HTML5, Responsive Design, Media Queries, jQuery and a lot more is a great investment and I wanted to share it with you all.

Additionally, I think I remember reading that when more E-Books are uploaded, you get them for free as part of this deal. That might have been a day-dream, I am not sure.

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Vancouver, Canada
James Taylor Stables
Email: hello at antistandard.com
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