I’m Rick Curran, a freelance web designer and developer based in Dundee, Scotland, with over 25 years of experience. My expertise lies in front-end and back-end development, particularly in creating custom WordPress themes and plugins.
My journey has spanned graphic design, fine art, video production, and web design and development. I am currently working as a freelance web development consultant, previously I was the founder of a small communication design company and have worked in higher education.
I am married to Annie and have three children, Natalie, Gabriella and Timothy. Outside of work, I’m passionate about skateboarding, snowboarding, and mountain biking, and I also run a t-shirt brand called Life-Sized Clothing.
For more about me, read my About page.
Recent Blog Posts…
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Recalling 9/11
I remember watching tiny embedded video streams from news channels and reloading web pages over slow dialup internet in my old office. Strange to think that there was no Facebook then, no Twitter, no iPhones. News websites were still the way to find out about breaking news. It was strange to see all of those…
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Apple <-> elppA
Apple had their September “It’s Glowtime” keynote event yesterday announcing updated products like Apple Watch, AirPods and iPhones. The new iPhone Pro phones have a new cinematic slow motion filming mode which records at 120FPS 4K video, they demonstrated this mode with a music video for the band “The Weeknd” where they had them sing…
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Why are gig tickets so expensive these days?
I’ve seen a lot of discussion online in the last few years about the increasing price of gig tickets. Huge tours by artists like Taylor Swift and the current (at-the-time-of-writing) buzz about Oasis getting back together for a tour in 2025 have seen massive ticket prices along with high demand for tickets. But even for…