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My First Website

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My first website was terrible. Not intentionally I hasten to add - but because I was told to make it bad... I started university in 1998, the internet was just starting to become more mainstream. It was still a few years before the first dot-com bubble burst - and AOL were still sending everyone copious amounts of drinks mats (trial cds). I was studying digital art - I wanted to be a video games artist - but web design was [...]

Pro Theme Design Blogging

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Over the winter holiday break I did a bit of a splurge on Pro Theme Design and posted a bunch of blog posts about WordPress and blogging. This is something I want to do a lot more of as I think it benefits my website users quite nicely. Below is a selection of the blog posts I think are most interesting. What's coming up in WordPress - I find it really interesting seeing the direction WordPress is heading in. The [...]

Please Just Tell Me What You Want!

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The web industry moves really fast and there is always a lot to do - time is precious. Many of us get dozens - sometimes even hundreds - of emails a day. As such it can be quite frustrating to get emails from people who introduce themselves and say they want to talk to you - and then don't tell me what they want. Recently I have been contacted by two independent companies - both wanting to talk about one [...]

Grovember – a Recap

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So - in November I decided to grow my beard in aid of Bowel Cancer Research. Unfortunately I got very few donations, my 'awesome' plan to tweet photos of the beard growing process did little (literally nothing in fact) to encourage any of my Twitter followers to donate to me. Regardless, at the end of the month I had a nice lustrous (scraggly unkempt) beard. As I suggested when I started the thing - I have now created an animated [...]

Experiments With 3D Printing

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When I was 13 I saw Toy Story at the cinema - and I instantly knew that 3d art was what I wanted to do. I had always been a doodler - I liked drawing cartoons and inventing things. I was also a lover of computers - so seeing Toy Story, discovering that I could combine the things I enjoyed the most (and get paid for it!) - I knew what I wanted to do. So, everything from then on [...]

Grovember – Raising Awareness of Bowel Cancer

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I have a beard. A few months after I met Jo, who is now my wife, she said that she thought I looked good with a beard. Since this meant I didn't have to shave, and since it got the thumbs up from my new girlfriend, I decided to start growing it. So I now have a beard. Every year, Miniclip, the company I work for join in with Movember. This is a charity event where men around the world [...]

iPhone 5 and the Golden Age of Computing

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I found the reactions after the iPhone 5 announcement last week really interesting. Everyone knew the iPhone 5 was coming, and all the rumour blogs had announced almost everything presented. Before it started we knew many of the announcements. So why was the outcome so negative? The iPhone 5 pre-orders sold out within some sort of crazy record (24 hours or something), yet there was a lot of negativity. People had set their expectations too high (despite the fact we [...]

My 3D Art Portfolio

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I moved house last year and we've slowly been going through the boxes of junk weeding out the rubbish when, a couple of days ago, I found my old video game art portfolio. I must have made this in 2002/ 2003 - it was the portfolio cd I was sending to games companies that showcased my work as a 3d artist. In fact these were part of the same portfolio that got me a job at Miniclip where I still [...]

Pushing Myself to the Limit

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I always like to challenge myself. I generally go for mental challenges, trying new technologies and coming up with new ideas. I feel that it's the best way to learn and expand my mind - however I tend not to challenge myself physically. I'm a geek - I like to sit in front of a computer or a tv and play video games or browse the internet - but I also enjoy the outdoor life. Last year I bought a [...]

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About me

About BenMy name is Ben Gillbanks. I'm a lover of Video Games, WordPress, Web Development and everything in between.

I have been working on the internet since 1998, and working with computers even longer. I am a hardcore Nintendo fanboy and have owned most of their consoles at one stage or another.

Read more about me on my about page.