Blog Title: Ed Merritt | creative web design from Bournemouth, UK.

Bargain Typography

Over the past few months I’ve had a number of ideas for typefaces I’d love to try, but never found the time… until now. I’ll be producing a number of new typefaces, hopefully releasing a new one every week or so. The plan is to keep the ideas flowing and keep the production rate high - read more..

Wiltshire Farm Foods

Over the past few months I’ve had a number of ideas for typefaces I’d love to try, but never found the time… until now. I’ll be producing a number of new typefaces, hopefully releasing a new one every week or so. The plan is to keep the ideas flowing and keep the production rate high - read more..

WFF wins ‘Best Website’ at FMA 2009

I just heard that Wiltshire Farm Foods has won the Best Website award at the 2009 Franchise Marketing Awards. I / We / Headscape and WFF have put a lot of effort into this so I’m really pleased it’s receiving some recognition.

Just a test

This is just a test post - I needed wordpress to generate a feed for a possible new category…

Wordpress.com themes

Hi Folks, this is just a quick note in response to the queries I’ve received about updating Ocean Mist on Wordpress.com… The themes hosted on Wordpress.com are managed by the team there and can’t be updated by the theme authors. I suspect they let new theme versions run for a while before adding them to the read more..

Project Kangaroo

I’ve just discovered that a number of the team I worked with in developing Channel 4’s 4oD service have been involved in a new Video On Demand service, known as Project Kangaroo. The service was intended to bring together full length programmes from the BBC, iTV and Channel 4, combining their current catch up services read more..

Ocean Mist 2.0 Released (Finally)

Ocean Mist 2.0 is available for one and all over at tenbytwenty.com. Download Ocean Mist 2.0

OM 2.0 Public Release: Monday 2pm GMT

Ocean Mist 2.0 has been with the beta testers for over a week now and the feedback has been positive, with just a couple of amendments and oversights to sort out. I’ll get these minor niggles corrected over the weekend and have the final version ready for Monday morning. edit: I should have mentioned, Ocean Mist read more..

Custom Ocean Mist Designs

Through the new custom colour schemes in Ocean Mist 2.0 site owners will be able to completely customise their site. However, this still requires a certain level of understanding and competance with CSS. I understand this will not be a problem for most users who will be happy fiddling with the CSS until they have read more..

Ocean Mist 2.0 beta

The inital release of Ocean Mist 2.0 has been shipped out to everyone who kindly volunteered to help with the testing process. I’m really looking forward to hearing their feedback and ultimately getting the theme into the public domain… If you’d like to get your hands on a copy of the theme asap and help with read more..