My Own Web Portal

A Screen Near You

A little film blog I built so I can share my views on film and the movie business on a dedicated site rather than including them in my normal blog.

Consume and Review

I used to host my reviews (mainly books) on my main blog, but spun them off onto a separate site which allowed me to be more creative with the style and push some of the custom post type capabilities in WordPress to organise and display them better.

Eight-Eight Template

As a web designer, I always had something of a disdain for web templates. They were something for people who wanted their web host to provide an easy, free solution so they could get a look-a-like site up and running and share pics of their new baby with the world. They were just low quality ripoffs of a real web site.

More recently I've seen some that made me think twice. They were high quality, looked great and I would happily have used them for any of my sites. So I started looking into it and now I'm a convert. Oh I won't be giving up designing, but there are some tasks templates are just eminently more suitable for, not mention certain clients.

Eight-eight template is my site dedicated to selling templates and related services.

Go Set Jetting

People visiting places because they were used in a film or TV show has been a growing phenomenon, with the likes of the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings films being responsible for huge amounts of tourism. Go Set Jetting was setup to try and create a list of locations for movies.

List Stuff

The precursor to another site I built (List Books, no longer mine), I have deactivated selling on it.

Potter's Place

I am a Harry Potter fan and have written the occasional fan fiction. Instead of letting them gather dust, I threw together a site so that I could put them online and share them with other Potter fans as well as post other Potter-related material, book recommendations, reviews, etc.

The Digerati Peninsula

The Peninsula is my personal blog where I write on anything and everything that interests me, though it's slowly fallen into being articles about stories in the news covering technology, science, the written word (usually the publishing industry) and anything else that takes my fancy.

Viewfinder Design

Viewfinder Design is a site I setup to offer free web resources. Over the years I've built or customised a range of scripts for my various sites and I thought I'd offer that knowledge back to the web community, helping others in the same way I was helped. The site does have a WordPress slant, as my publishing system of choice, but offers templates, tips, documentation and downloads including a contact form script, a recommend to a friend script and a mailing list manager.

Write Here

I write when I have time and inspiration, and I've used various bits of software over the years. When you're working on a 50,000 word novel you soon realise Word makes it unmanageable. Moving chapters around, editing and reformatting become a nightmare. I've used desktop software like Celtx and Scrivener, but decided to try and build a web version to allow people to write from the growing number of devices with an internet connection and avoid the headache that is synchronisation.