Some new bits.....

This is a quick snapshot of what's new on here..you'll be able to take a more in depth look at my work by clicking on the portfolio links dotted around the site at various points.

Some examples will be live sites and some will be visuals or works in progress...I'll even include the various print artworks for good measure as well. Add my RSS wontcha!
Take a look at my portfolio
Take a look at my portfolio
Take a look at my portfolio
Take a look at my portfolio

Hi, welcome

I'm Sam Marks, a 30 year old web designer from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex near London in the UK. I've been designing for over 8 years starting as a junior and now as the head of design at a web design agency based just outside London.

I specialise in general interface design with corporate identity and print work thrown in for good measure.

The aim of this website is for me to be able promote my artwork and express my thoughts on what ever I may have in mind at the time.

I hope you like what’s on offer, and enjoy the experience!!
Drop me an email if you want to get in touch.

Cheers,
Sam

PS. Although I can and do very often, I didn’t build this site...In an exchange of friendly mutual back scratching I’m creating the Creative Web Specialist site's artwork and ident whilst he does the clever stuff on ere! So god bless friendship!

New from me!

I've been working on my good friend and one time colleague Warren Buckley's "Creative Web Specialist" website and ident. Check the portfolio section for some sneak peaks.As always LickLibrary continues to take over the majority of my schedule at work, if it's not redesigning the media player or landing pages it's building the new store.

There's a few exciting new projects at work in the pipeline, obviously I can't reveal all but needless to say check the portfolio section for some hot off the press screen grabs.

Personally, I've been working hard to improve my hand coding when building my websites..I've finally ditched Dreamweaver in favour of Coda, this is  an apple version of Visual Studio..all beit with perhaps a few bits missing. Using this tool I think has really made me work harder on both improving my skills and creating better and easier to use CSS files.

In addition to improving my coding skills Im as ever working on various Photoshop or Illustrator techniques. I'l make sure I throw up some of the bits I've learnt and also some of the old items.

Im currently putting the final touches to my latest blog so watch this space!!!

I've now added RSS features to my site so you can keep upto date if you wish?
Check out the portfolio section! 

Skill set

Ok, I'm good at

  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • Dreamweaver
  • Coda (Mac version of visual studio)
  • CSS
  • XHTML (I can also hand code, although I don't profess to be a pro, just yet)
  • W3C compliancy
  • User testing
  • Project managment
  • Corporate identities
  • Print artwork

Workstuff

I’m currently working at Lucas Lynch, a web development agency based just outside London where I’m employed as the senior creative. My general tasks range from client meetings, writing functional specifications, design and build of the websites and project roll out.

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Personal stuff

Born in Camden, February 20th 1978, now living in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex with my girlfriend Holly, our son Stanley and our dog and cat.

Video casts...More to follow soon

Blog feed

Will the last person using IE 6 please turn out the lights when they finish!

I thought I’d dedicate this new post to IE 6 and it’s practicality in todays design and development world. It will come to no suprise to people who know me,  my feelings towards IE6 and even IE, I hate it! Sure I loved it back in the day when I based all my layout and [...]

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I love Coda, its soo good...! I also love live music...

Tue 13 May 08 @ 11:33

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