This page is looking pretty dull at the moment, but eventually it'll be pretty - if I ever get around to doing some decent graphics for this hub!

I'll get to the point. This is the entrance to all my websites. From here you'll be able to access both my personal projects and my professional portfolio (no laughing at the back, it'll grow!).

I first got interested in website design about five years ago, but didn't
really have a clue how it all worked. Since then I've learnt a few tricks, and though I'm not the most technical designer online, my sites tend to be fairly unique.

A Blithe Spirit
http://www.blithespirit.me.uk

This is my home on the web. My homepage, containing all the usual pet pics, babble about friends and family, and my online journal. There's a section of my published articles, along with some short stories and a couple of in progress novels. It also contains all my favourite drool-fodder, whether it be actors, art, books, films and TV shows. It's a great sprawling beast of a site, that will never be fully completed. Of all my sites this is my favourite, and is the site I work on when I want to relax...I never denied I was a geek! The site has been online for more than four years, and has evolved beyond my wildest dreams. I'll be honest though, it's seen very few updates this year but I'm working on changing that. I'm also thinking up ways of improving the navigation, as the beast is long overdue some taming.

Blithe's Kindred: The Embraced Website
http://www.kindred.me.uk

This site scares me! It began around the same time as A Blithe Spirit, and initially comprised little more than a photo gallery. To say it grew is an understatement! I loved Kindred from the first time I saw it, and there were very few places online dedicated to the show. As time went on I created more and more content, and at the beginning of 2003 I launched the current version of the site. I have to admit I really love the look and feel of the site, and fully intend to do more work on it soon as I've produced a ton of new content that needs adding, and the navigation needs a serious overhaul. Unfortunately since its launch most of my time has been spent keeping it online, rather than updating. Now it has a permanent home I hope to finally finish the mammoth job.

Book Break
http://www.bookbreak.co.uk

This site is the online home of the book group I run, and was really quickly throw together. It was the first time I'd experimented with JavaScript menus, which I've now fallen in love with.

The group's mailing list is housed at Yahoo! groups, but all the club information (current reads, books we love/hate, and the reading schedule) is housed on the website. I love the look and feel of the site, and the organisation, though quickly arranged, has needed very few changes over the year it's been live.

Blithe's Channon Roe Website
http://www15.brinkster.com/blithechannon

You could call this the sister site of my Kindred site. Dedicated to Channon Roe, who played Cash in the series, this is an old site. Much of the content has now been superseded by Version 3 of my Kindred site, and I'm planning to integrate the two in the near future. I do still like the colour scheme though, even though the layout isn't as clean as I'd like. The banner frame was a really bad idea, and swamps the screen. We live and learn.

Blithe's First Wave Website
http://www16.brinkster.com/blithefw

Although I adore the TV show First Wave my website has been much neglected. I started out with such good intentions, but beyond enormous numbers of screen captures I really didn't get around to doing all I wanted. At some time in the not too distant future I'll have to make the decision to either let the site go, or do some serious work.  

Blithe's Breakfast Club Website
http://members.fortunecity.com/breakfastclub/

This is a fairly basic site that I created about two years ago. The main problem with finishing it off has been the task of scanning all the material I want to include. I've begun to get that task done, and so will probably be updating this site in the not too distant future.

Ventrescaholics Anonymous
http://www.ventrescaholics.co.uk

This is a joint project with my best friend. It's an online fanclub dedicated to Prey and The Invisible Man actor Vincent Ventresca. We have huge plans for it, including a brand new version of the site which has yet to go live yet, and it can only get more expansive as we collect fans and information.

This is a site I designed for AromatherapyGold.com. They were looking for a store front for their new pet products range, and I got the gig. I'm pretty pleased with the results, even though it was a really tight deadline. If nothing else it definitely stands apart from most e-commerce sites out there, which was part of the brief. My favourite things are the graduated border, and the little animated pooches...they were a lot of fun to do.