Adam Trickett

About me

Who am I? I’m Adam, and somehow you’ve crash landed on my website.

Work

• I am a freelancer
• I am a designer & developer
• I live and breathe WordPress
• My list of skills can be found on this page
• I have been working with the web since 2004
• I’m more of a coder than designer, though I like designing
• I am known to be thorough (bordering on the point of OCD)
• If I can’t find a solution, I tend to build my own
• I hate paperwork
• I try to avoid Flash
• I’m lost with Photoshop
• I’m not an Apple fan
• I no longer support IE6. I test and see what damage IE7 does, but thats about it

Home

• I’m nearly 27 years old
• I’m a camper, hiker, illustrator, heavy sleeper, and nutter
• I’m a sunday morning person, not a friday night person
• Beer, red wine, and coffee are my poisons. Mmmm… Delicious poisons.
• I’m a small crowd person
• Terry Pratchet is my hero
• Not an avid TV fan but I love Mythbusters and Gruen Transfer/Nation/Planet
• Food: the hotter, the better
• Steam ID: ariombarrek
• The kind of music rocking my headphones is in this category

What this website is about

This website is a tasty mixed bag of random musings, thoughts, rants, and raves, code fragments that save the day, asides, links, galleries, and tunes rocking my speakers. This site might end up being total chaos so bring it on!

Why this website exists

I got sick of Facebook and Twitter, I’m getting sick of LinkedIn, and I don’t use Flickr or Delicious enough to care. Sure they are great services to use, but with each constantly changing the goalposts, I decided I want out. That posed a problem of where I would be able to vent my thoughts, fears, what I like, what I don’t like and so on.

I was initially drawn to Tumblr. I like the idea of being able to have audio posts for showing off what I’m currently listening to, or video post for funny cat videos that make me laugh. The problem however is that it’s another 3rd party service that I’m trying to avoid. Combine that with the fact that I’m getting fed up in having to be “two faced” (not what you are thinking. Relax, blog post coming soon).

Tech Specs

This webite:

• is built with HTML5
• is built with CSS3
• is build on WordPress 3.1
• was inspired by Tumblr
• uses the following
• jQuery (and lots of it)
• Modernizr
• Custom Post Types
• Post Formats
• Gravity Forms
• SVG for some of the layout images
• was designed with Adobe Fireworks CS5 on PC with Windows 7 (yeah! take that Photoshop/Mac fans!)
• is in its 3rd version and is the most visually composed version so far.