April 25th, 2007
This is the obligatory-these-days weblog of Paul Bellamy - communications designer based in Penzance, Cornwall, UK.
Who is he?
I’ve been designing websites since 1996. In 2004 I set up BellamyStudio Ltd, a company dedicated to designing good stuff for people that need it. (got to work on that mission statement)
Since 1996?
Yep, in 1996 I left college (then known as Newport School of Art) and needed a job. I got offered the chance to build some websites for a friend’s-girlfriend’s-dad, and rather than explain that I had no idea where to start, I accepted the opportunity and quietly went about figuring out how to do it. I started with a copy of HotMetal before discovering that handcoding stuff was far simpler and more pleasurable in about 1998. Plus, by that time I knew what HTML was and how to use it.
Why Paul’s Boutique
Paul’s Boutique is in my top 3 favourite albums of all time (although the other two keep changing), and I needed no excuse to pay homage to it in the header of this site. Plus, it’s considerably better than “Paul’s Blog”.