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Hi, I'm Paul Carvill and I'm a web developer. I am Head of Interface Development at LBi, Europe's largest digital agency.

I also like walking, cooking, Bollywood and rock 'n' roll.

Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Oh-deon

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Just how bad can a website get? How bad is the Odeon’s website? I don’t know where to start. I’ve been checking it occasionally for a number of months, and in all that time it has never improved. Here I blow off steam about a design that has driven me mad.

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Observations on the Observer

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

I’ve been a keen reader of the Observer for a number of years until recently switching to The Independent. This desertion was almost entirely due to the Independant’s change in format to a smaller, tabloid size. Both papers are equally readable and, I suppose, politically agreeable, but following our move to a new flat I’ve been reassessing a lot of my everyday decisions from an environmentally-aware viewpoint. The new Indy is smaller, smaller means less paper, less paper means fewer trees chopped down and less waste.

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