Paul Burgess: Archive

New website: 9th Echo

9th Echo is a website I designed and built for artist BB Nielsen to showcase her art and poetry. It features 2 image galleries powered by SimpleViewer, which feeds from her Flickr photos, which makes it easy for her to update. The poetry section of the site is a custom theme for the popular blogging system Tumblr, which ties it in seamlessly to the rest of the site. Again, that makes the...

Mar 2nd

My Flickr tutorial on Nettuts

I wrote a tutorial on how to integrate your photos from Flickr into your website, which was published on the popular tutorial site Nettuts. The technique explained is one I often use in sites I build, see the Royksopp photos page for an example. In fact the entire Urban Dirty gallery runs off the same technique, being powered by one single set on my Flickr account. My tutorial takes the reader...

Nov 13th

Firefox Add-on for weheartit.com

I have built a Firefox Add-on (sometimes known as an ‘extension’) for the popular website We Heart It. We Heart It is a popular visual bookmarking site, a place where people can save images they find on the web for inspiration or simply to keep your favourite images. Members add images to their account by using a ‘bookmarklet’ which is a button they drag to their...

Nov 4th

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Website and social media hub for the 1indienation...

I was asked by LA podcaster and princess of social media, Rachael Depp, to design and build a website for her, after she saw one of my personal projects, delarge.co.uk Initially she wanted a custom design for somewhere to host her podcast, 1indienation. We also used the site as a one-stop shop for all her social media accounts (such as 12seconds, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook). Taking...

Nov 4th

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Website for men's fashion label Denison Boston

I was asked to produce a small website for men’s fashion accessory label, Denison Boston. This is a site to accompany their main online shop, designed to give an overview of the brand. I was given website design mockups and asked to produce the site based on those. The site is built using a Wordpress framework, which means all content is all controlled by the Denison Boston staff. This...

Nov 4th

Code to grab the first image in Wordpress and show...

I recently wrote a piece of code (called a function) which you can include in Wordpress that will allow you to show a frontpage of your posts, and include a featured image as a thumbnail. This is a popular technique amongst many modern Wordpress themes. The result could look a lot like this: More information and all of the details of how to do it are posted up on the Theme Forest forum. I hope...

Sep 28th

ColorSuckr featured on TV

My ColorSuckr website was featured a ‘Current Tech Web Tip’ on Current TV I was most pleased to find Current TV’s Sarah Lane presenting a little feature about ColorSuckr, one of my projects that lets you create colour schemes from photos (more info). Take a peek at the piece below, it also serves as a nice intro and how-to for the site:

Sep 14th

ColorSuckr: Create color schemes based on images

My latest personal project is called ColorSuckr. In a nutshell, it will look at an image on the web and tell you the 12 most common colours used in that image, useful for creating colour schemes for design projects and/or websites. Aside from my main body of freelance work, I like to develop small personal projects from time to time. This allows me to try out new things, experiment a little and...

Aug 19th

A guide to posting images in Wordpress

This is a how-to for inserting images into posts in Wordpress, to act as guide for clients and users tackling this seemingly easy but often tricky aspect of blog posting. This guide will run through some details about uploading and inserting images and the options available, if you’d rather, you can skip straight to the quick tips for a summary. All of the image uploading is handled in your...

Aug 12th

Moby MP3 promo download with Play.com

I was asked to design and build a system that would allow Play.com customers who bought the new Moby album, to have access to an exclusive MP3. Here is an outline of what I constructed: When you buy the Moby album ‘Wait for Me’ from Play.com, you also get a unique 10 digit code emailed to you. If you enter that code on to a page on Moby’s website you are emailed a link...

Jun 26th

Toy Life - Designer and vinyl toy website

I was asked to redesign the website for the designer and vinyl toy shop, Toy Life. I had alsobuilt the previous version of their site - and to help matters, the site is run by the talented Mr & Mrs Muju who provided me with the initial bare bones layout, which I turned into a Wordpress theme and site template. The site’s main news/blog area is powered by Wordpress. In addition I...

Jun 25th

Kleerup - official website

I was asked to design and build the official website for DJ record producer and drummer, Kleerup. Here in the UK, he is probably best known for his number 1 in 2007 called ‘With Every Heartbeat’ featuring Robyn. The site features a journal for Kleerup and a news area, videos, discography, photo gallery, streaming music, event listings and an exclusive members area. When building...

Apr 28th

Urban Dirty laptop, iPod and iPhone skins

The wonderful people at Infectious have launched a range of skins for your laptop, iPod or iPhone using images from my texture photo website Urban Dirty. There are currently 4 designs to choose from, Crusts n’ rust, Grimey grill, Got it on lock & Greenery - plus an interview with yours truly about how it all began, influences and vices. I am so chuffed that these texture photos are...

Mar 19th

Delarge and Urban Dirty in Dutch Web Designer mag

Issue 13 of Web Designer magazine in Holland features Delarge as a ‘Hot site’ for 2009, standing alongside the likes of Smashing Magazine which is a great compliment. in addition, their free CD has a nice selection of texture photos from Urban Dirty:

Feb 19th

Official website for Röyksopp

A few months ago I was approached about producing a new website for the popular dance act, Röyksopp, and I am pleased and proud to announce that the site is now live and in full effect at royksopp.com It was my intention to create a website that is a step forward from most band/musician websites you usually see which fall foul to the full screen pop up window/flash intros/music blasting...

Feb 12th

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Web Designer Magazine feature

Issue 154 of Web Designer Magazine has a double page spread featuring me and some of my web work. I made it into the ‘portfolio’ area of the magazine’s ‘Creative Careers’ section, which features some screenshots and a has a few words about my path into web design and my approach to website construction. Huge thanks to the Web Designer Magazine team and if...

Feb 12th

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Advanced Photoshop Magazine - France

Issue 9 (February 2009) of Advanced Photoshop Magazine in France is packing 50 texture from my Urban Dirty website on their free CD, alongside 25 free stock photos from Photogen. This fact even gets bigged up in a blue bubble on the cover.

Jan 22nd

Dutch Advanced Photoshop Magazine - Urban Dirty...

Following on from their appearance last month, 25 texture photos from Urban Dirty were included on the CD in issue 13 of Advanced Photoshop Magazine in Holland. International grimy love.

Jan 6th

Urban Dirty in French and Dutch Advanced Photoshop...

50 texture photos from my Urban Dirty website were included on the CDs in the Dutch and French versions of Advanced Photoshop Magazine in December 2008. Big thanks to the crew at Imagine Publishing for including my stuff once again!

Jan 6th

Custom blog design for DeadDeadDead

DeadDeadDead is a new ultra-creative wing of Garage Studios. They asked me make them a super simple customised blog, and that’s what they got. I created a custom ‘skin’ for Wordpress and kept the design minimal, this one is just a means for the crew to publish what they are up to and let their amazing photos take centre stage. » Visit DeadDeadDead

Dec 11th

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Urban Dirty on Web Designer Magazine CD

My free texture download site, Urban Dirty, made another appearance on Web Designer Magazine’s free CD. Last month, 25 photos came free with the magazine to help photoshoppers and website be-boppers get some gritty grime in their style.

Nov 20th

My portfolio featured on Design Meltdown

Design Meltdown is a popular site run by Patrick McNeil for observing techniques, trends and examples of modern web design. This week, a feature on personal portfolios was published which included my own. I’m honored to see my work up there, thank you so much Patrick for including me.

Nov 20th

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Urban Dirty textures in 'Advanced Web' magazine

The first issue of Advanced Web magazine came out in France last month, covering many aspects of working on the web from Photoshop art through to Ajax coding. To make it even more of a treat there were 80 photos from Urban Dirty included on the magazine’s CD.

Nov 20th

My Dirtpress theme for Wordpress

I often use Wordpress as a framework to build websites on. Due to its versatility, it allows you to create custom designs or themes. I have created a Wordpress theme based on texture photos from my Urban Dirty website, aptly titled ’Dirtpress’. Here is a screenshot of the homepage: Whilst it may look quite heavy on the graphics, the theme itself uses only 4 images and is really...

Oct 24th

Garage Studios website

I just just finished work on the website for a new photography studio here in Brighton called Garage Studios. A venture run by Dark Daze, Adam Bronkhorst and fellow studio partner Matt, Garage Studios is Brighton’s biggest permanent studio and they are kicking out some tasty, tasty stuff. The website features info on all their services, courses and studio space along with photo galleries, a...

Oct 13th

Mockupr - Present your website mockups in a...

Here’s another little idea/side-project of mine. I find myself emailing static image mockups to clients quite a lot. Rather than send them a raw image that will appear resized when they view it, I want them to see it full size, online, in a browser to get a real idea of how it will look. Rather than making a page each time and embedding an image, I wanted a quick way to get the mockup to...

Sep 30th

Urban Dirty textures on Advanced Photoshop...

Urban Dirty makes another appearance on a magazine CD. This time, Issue 48 of Advanced Photoshop Magazine has 50 photos included on the CD to complement the urban/worn effect design tutorial inside.

Sep 28th

Interviewed for documentary about Miss Aniela

I welcomed Miss Aniela and members of a film crew from Spain into the HQ on the 6th August 08 to do an interview about Miss Aniela’s work, her website, Flickr and the internet. It was fun, although as is often the case with these things, I think back and wonder ‘why did I say that?’ I don’t know when the documentary will be finished, but when it is, I’ll slap up...

Sep 17th

My 'WordBurner' email newsletter tutorial on...

Nettuts is a popular tutorial website offering useful tips and tricks on web design and development. I wrote a tutorial on how to ‘Build a ‘WordBurner’ Email Newsletter Manager using WordPress and FeedBurner’ which was published on the site. I run through a technique to create and send email newsletters using the Wordpress blogging system combined with a service called...

May 20th

'We Heart It' search tool

Since discovering weheartit.com a week or so ago, I have become mildly addicted to it as a means of getting a quick fix of visual inspiration and stimulation. We Heart It is a collection of images that have been ‘hearted’, in other words bookmarked, by people. You can browse the huge collection of images in one big list, or by user (for example here’s me) or by keyword (for...

Apr 29th

Urban Dirty colour scheme suggestions

I recently added a function to my free texture stock photography website, Urban Dirty, that suggests colours to use with a photo. It is based upon the predominant colours in the photo, done by tying in the image’s information with a service provided by Adobe called Kuler that allows you create and share colour schemes. The listed pallettes link to that colour theme on Kuler where you can...

Feb 10th

And the winner is...

My free texture stock photo site Urban Dirty won the award for ‘The Site We Wish We’d Built’ at the Brighton Web Awards 2007, part of the Brighton Digital Festival. Acceptance speeches were scarce so I’d like to thank my wife for hanging around whilst I take photos of mouldy moss in smelly street corners and to Brighton’s seagulls for pooing on the pavement so...

Dec 5th

Songza Firefox Search Plugin

Following on from my Urban Dirty search engine plugin - I have created a search bar to find music on Songza: ‘the music search engine and internet jukebox’ using the Firefox browser or Internet Explorer 7. What does it do? It allows you to search for music on Songza, create playlists and share with friends directly from browser. After entering a search it will take you straight to...

Nov 27th

Computer Arts Projects magazine

I wrote an article for the ‘Last word’ section on the last page of Computer Arts Projects magazine (Street Art issue / December 2007 / 104) about graffiti in the mainstream. Pick up a copy from your local upmarket newsagent.

Nov 12th

Urban Dirty Firefox Search Plugin

Here’s something a little different to my normal website adventures. If you use the Firefox browser then you might like my Urban Dirty texture photo search bar plugin. What does it do? It allows you to search my Urban Dirty website for free texture stock photography directly from your Firefox browser (or any browser that supports OpenSearch). After entering a search it will take you...

Nov 12th

Featured on Web Designer Wall

My free texture stock photo project, Urban Dirty, and I were featured on the top notch design and tutorial site - Web Designer Wall. » Read the feature

Sep 5th