I Design & Build Websites..!

Hi my name is Mike Ballan and welcome to my portfolio site. Here you will find a small selection of the work that I have had the pleasure of being involved with over the last year or so, want to know more..?

Over the last 6+ years, I have been lucky enough to work with some amazing clients some of which i've added to this site as a small sampling of projects that demonstrate my expertise, experience & versatility with not only designing but building websites and emails.

Below are the five sections i've split my work up into which are Digital Work, Electronic Mail, Art Work, Tumblr Themes & Not 2 B which is where i put all the cool designs that never make there way into the world wide web, but i believe are still awesome enough to be here..!

Designer & Developer

Yes it's true I am both a web designer and developer all rolled up into one, which means I sometimes have the pleasure to create digital work from start to finish or at least understand where a designer is coming from or vice-versa which suits me just fine.

I do however have to admit that I enjoy designing more than developing as this is where i first started out before I looked behind that curtain of code and thought to myself "hey i think i could do that..!" and that brings us up to the present. Oh and on a side note I believe that you have to be somewhat of a dreamer to design anything and as i was making the pie next to this my wife said that she would have put me more a 5% dreamer than 1%..!

60% Designer

39% Developer

1% Dreamer

Technical Skills

XHTML / CSS

Photoshop

Illustrator

WordPress / Tumblr / Perch

JavaScript

Flash

PHP

Noob

Pretty Good

Awesome

Random Facts

I watch far too many cartoons for someone my age.

Jazz is my favorite Transformer.

Xbox is my gaming platform of choice, come find me "Hobo Ballan".

Bladerunner is my favorite film, followed closely by the latest Tron film.

I read a lot of graphic novels (totally different from a comic..!).

Giraffes rule over all other animals.

The Flash is faster than Superman.

I can't get enough of sci-fi shows like Firefly, Stargate, Star Trek & Fringe.

About me

In Short I love good/clean design and have a small obsession with film. I'm told that growing up I was always making things out of cardboard boxes and always had a keen interest in how things work and I’m happy to say I haven’t changed.

As you may have guessed I specialise in web and graphic design with the ability to produce website to valid XHTML & CSS standards. My main tools of the trade are Photoshop and Coda / Notepadd++ and the internet which is the greatest place to find all the new and awesome things that people have made.

My main loves in life are my lovely wife Gemma, my cat "Wolverine" and my 17" Mac Book Pro which was the greatest thing I’ve ever bought apart from my Xbox 360. When not working I post my photos to Flickr, deep thoughts to Twitter, and inspiration to Tumblr.

Please, feel free to write to me, about how I can help you as I'm open to any interesting new web design projects.

***Update***

My new love of my life is my daughter "Ava-May" who is perfect in every way, I can't tell you how fast she is growing up..!

I Design & Build Websites..!

Recent Work

Designer & Developer

Technical Skills

Random Facts

About me

Some "deep thoughts"

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