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Hi, I'm Gareth J M Saunders, 38 years old, 6' 4", married to Jane, father of twins (with another on the way), I'm a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church and have a passion for Mah Jong, Psion PDAs and web design.
I am employed as the Assistant Information Architect / Web Manager at the University of St Andrews.
My main interests are HTML, CSS (inc. frameworks), jQuery, Information Architecture and Agile development.
Twitter @garethjms- My @AmazonKindle is perfect for reading the latest edition of the free PDF Productive! magazine from @MichaelNozbe
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Monthly Archives: September 2008
New website for St Mary’s College
When I was a student at St Mary’s College (1989-1992), the Faculty of Divinity at the University of St Andrews, there was no such thing as the World Wide Web. So it feels a little surreal that I helped design, … Continue reading
DVD Return Fail
One of my favourite blogs at the moment is the Fail Blog. It contains user-submitted photos and videos of various fails. Basically places where someone has messed up: accidents, ill-placed signs, products in the wrong place, etc. I’ve just submitted … Continue reading
How I took back my life
On the whole, over the years I’ve managed to keep myself pretty well organized. As a child growing up I was always reorganizing my room: rearranging the order of books, folders, stationery, … everything! If it wasn’t nailed down I … Continue reading
Finding OpenSearch
Scottish Web Folk: Three (5-minute) ways to improve your Website View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: microformats opensearch) Back in July at the IWMW 2008 conference — during those heady three days of summer we experienced in Aberdeen … Continue reading
A very creative year so far …
Right twin at 19 weeks In many ways 2008 has been a very odd year for me, for many reasons. Of course it opened with the IVF procedures that led to Jane discovering that she was pregnant, that led to … Continue reading
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Tagged CMS, content management system, CSS, design, Family, God Project, St Andrews, university
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Mushroom parody on 12seconds
First of all there was this 12seconds clip from Documentally, about a dog and a field mushroom: Mushroom The Size Of My Head on 12seconds.tv … which later prompted this parody from AndrewJHolmes, about another canine and a fairy-tale mushroom: … Continue reading