I’d like to announce that Social Gallery – the Ultimate Social Lightbox plugin for WordPress has been acquired by Epic Plugins.com (announcement here.) It’s been fantastic to build Social Gallery up as a product and a useful tool, having sold over 1500 copies and many, many add-ons it’s been very well received and helping it grow […]

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Social Gallery Acquired by Epic Plugins.com
The Flexibility of Freelance: Web Designer Magazine
I’ve written an article which is in this months Web Designer Magazine. If your a freelancer or are interested in Freelancing you can read an excerpt below or you can check it out in the magazine! Freelancing is hitting new heights. More people than ever are leaving traditional employment in search of self-directed consulting. Whether […]
Free “Lite” Version of Social Gallery released!
Just a quick post to say that yesterday evening I released the free version of Social Gallery. As Social Gallery has been so popular (now over 700 copies sold on CodeCanyon) it seemed only fair to share some of the awesome out to the WordPress.org family (and to the non-profit’s and such that asked me […]
2012 Annual Review: Looking Back
2012 was the first properly organised year of my life, and in this spirit I found my self seeking closure throughout December, a sub-concious bubbling feeling which lead me to write the first ever self-review of a year. I’m surprised I didn’t formalise this sooner, but better late than never! Owing to the fact that I just wanted to […]
4 Life Lessons Learnt from Writing a Novel (before it’s even published) – My Guest Post at MYO
This is the opening paragraphs from my guest post “4 Life Lessons Learnt from Writing a Novel (before it’s even published)” over at Make Your Offer (they an innovative new approach to selling self-published works.) Click here to skip over to MYO and read the full post. What do you picture in your mind when […]
Social Gallery Plugin Sells 200 Copies!
A small landmark though it might be amongst plugin sellers, it’s nice to celebrate the little wins. Social Gallery sold it’s 200th copy last night, just over 2 months after it’s initial release, and that’s just through awesome customers sharing and word of mouth! If you have live amongst the majority of bloggers and use […]
StormGate Branding by MRK Designs – Branding for Start-ups
Just some branding eye candy for you, click the image to see the full selection on behance:
5 Crucial Points for Hiring a Web Developer
Here you can read an excerpt of my latest post over on the StormGate Blog, it’s the first in a series where I try and get to the crux of client-web developer relations and add some value for everyone who hire’s freelance developers or develop’s on the side for clients. You can read the full […]