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Thursday, 9 July 2009
If you follow me on Twitter you may have read about this last week, but 1st July saw the launch of a website I’ve spent a few months working on: Helping Groups to Grow.

Helping Groups to Grow is a lottery-funded non-profit organisation that supports drug and alcohol misusers through group and one-to-one sessions across Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Powys.
I’m particularly proud of this website because it’s not often I can say my work is contributing to a cause that is genuinely making a difference to people’s lives. The south of Wales has had an increasingly high-profile problem with teenage suicides in the last 24 months, so the Helping Groups to Grow cause is one that I feel passionately about and am proud to be associated with.
Credit must go to Fearghal of The Good Folk who managed the project and oversaw the creative design. I built the front-end of the site and developed the back end using ExpressionEngine. I documented my experiences with ExpressionEngine in a previous post.
I have a major overhaul of my website planned soon, and my seriously out-of-date portfolio will be getting a much needed kick up the bum. More details of Helping Groups to Grow, and all the other projects I’ve spent the last year working on, will be available soon.
It’s always great to hear when someone has worked on a project that not only involves a good (and valuable) cause, but which is also personally fulfilling and enjoyable.
I look forward to seeing more of what you’ve been working on in recent times. I’m starting to turn my thoughts towards the redesign of my own site – all the best with your revamp.
Last week I asked the question on Twitter, “What HTML element do you use for each line of a form? P, DIV, or something else?” So, how do you do your forms?
This years season of 24 ways article has come to a close and with it a reoccurring theme of controversy has arisen: designing in the browser. I offer my thoughts on why it misses the point.
The problem with CSS pre-processing frameworks is that they don’t really fit within the average web designers’ work flow. So I built an extension to LESS for creating cached stylesheets your PHP projects can use.
Are you a web designer or are you a web developer? Let me guess, you are a bit of both. Does that mean you are “doing it wrong”?
If you’re like me then your life revolves around email. Unfortunately the grip that email now has on all our lives creates as many problems as it solves. Learn how I control my Inbox.
“@robhawkes I'd key their face! Its street parking where I live, so always getting nobs coming past keying cars and kicking off wing mirrors.”
Posted about 3 hours ago.
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