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Me, Hannah and a horse! Hi there. My name’s Mike and I’m a web designer at Futuresys, based in Hampshire. I have a passion for design and love creating designs in Photoshop and converting to WordPress or e-Commerce system’s such as Prestashop, as well as static HTML website. I love experimenting with new technologies and continue to develop my skills and learn all the time.

In my spare time I’m a huge football fan and follow the club of the city where I was born (Chelmsford), the city where I attended university (Portsmouth) and a city of which I have no connection to whatsoever (Atletico Madrid). I play regularly in both 11-a-side Sunday league football and 5 or 7-a-side evening leagues and can always be found between the sticks, keeping the opposition from scoring.

I often like to combine my hobbies, as you can see from the Projects section to the right. If you like, you can follow me on various social networks. See below for links.

Thanks for visiting!
Mike

GT Transeo 4.0 2013 Bike Review

Here is hopefully an unbiased review of the GT Transeo 4.0 2013, a bike which I have just bought to replace my old 2011 Claud Butler Criterium Road Bike. When reading this review, please bear in mind that I’m coming from a light, agile, road bike so my opinions on things such as weight or [...]

My Top 5 WordPress Plugins

Every time I start a new WordPress website there are a number of plugins I instantly install. These are usually regardless of the purpose or intended content for the website and generally improve the WordPress experience for anyone, regardless of website complexity and user skill. These are my top 5 WordPress Plugins. 5. Social By [...]

“Error”, “Success” and “Warning” Message Box CSS

This is just a quick post to share something that I use all the time. These are handy to bring peoples attention to certain messages you want to get across and for things like form validation. In fact, I use these on almost every website I build, particularly those with contact forms and other important [...]

Football Club Terminology

One thing that always gets me is the terminology surrounding whether a football club is a single entity or a group of individuals. Now I’m not talking in terms of the cliched playing styles of teams out on the pitch, more so how they are represented in the media and popular culture. Here’s my point: [...]

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