Gavin Wray

Hi, I’m Gavin, a content designer

I help organisations to simplify their services with clear language and user-centred design

Accessibility regulations, university websites and decentralised publishing

2 March 2019

A content strategy to manage web services documentation

20 December 2018

Refactoring a Hugo theme's stylesheet

17 June 2018

Style guide for creating dyslexia-friendly content

28 May 2018

Limit Hugo's RSS feed to recent content in a single directory

10 May 2018

The only way is through

14 April 2018

Goodbye WordPress, hello Hugo

19 December 2017

Writing a manual for the University of Warwick's coursework management system

25 September 2017

Audio and 2D image to 3D animation with TouchDesigner

15 July 2017

Custom stylesheet for the George Orwell essay archive

10 April 2017

What I've been doing in 2015 and 2016

17 December 2016

Evaluating Outlook, OneNote, Trello and Evernote for a Getting Things Done system

10 November 2016

Fantasy landscapes

19 October 2016

Planet Loweswater

7 August 2016

Twitter card and Open Graph images in the Icarus theme for Hugo

23 July 2016

Auto-Illustrator

8 May 2016

Migrating 'The Perfect Twang' from WordPress to Hugo

10 April 2016

Northern gothic

25 October 2015

RotoDoodle

30 December 2014

Word and character count tools for web editors

25 November 2014

Self-hosted WordPress housekeeping

10 October 2014

Creating Impressionist landscapes with Percolator app

27 April 2014

Micro-listening photo walk in Digbeth

3 January 2014

Tiltshift views of Centenary Square in Birmingham

23 December 2013

Updated blockquote post snippet for WordPress

19 December 2013

Cymatics

12 August 2013

Bookmarks March 2013

14 April 2013

Book review: 'The Craft of Words'

24 March 2013

Book review: 'Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore'

2 March 2013

Bookmarks February 2013

28 February 2013

Reusable blockquote markup in WordPress using post snippets

1 February 2013

MailChimp's voice and tone style guide

30 January 2013

I've been hacked

24 January 2013

Balancing competing demands from customers and your employer

2 January 2013

Add Google authorship markup to WordPress sites using All in One SEO Pack

22 December 2012

Book review: 'A Practical Guide to Designing the Invisible'

15 December 2012

Magical sci-fi and building worlds

10 November 2012

'Visualize This' chapter 2: scrape weather data using Python

23 September 2012

Email template design for Michael Warwick Nicholls

23 August 2012

Playing with TiltShift Generator

18 July 2012

Book review: 'Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking'

14 July 2012

Playing with Percolator

25 May 2012

Bookmarks May 2012

21 May 2012

Delicious RSS feeds feedback

5 May 2012

Bookmarks April 2012

26 April 2012

Japanese collage garden panel idea

26 February 2012

You are what you tweet

6 January 2012

Photo featured in Birmingham Post

22 September 2011

Your Twitter psychological profile

21 September 2011

What I'm up to

15 May 2011

Beast WordPress theme for Dirty Bristow magazine

15 May 2011

Visualisation of listening habits using last.fm API and Google Spreadsheets

3 January 2011

Christmas-o-meter

15 December 2010

Interview with InstantAtlas

17 November 2010

My open data article published in 'Birmingham: Stories from a digital city'

21 October 2010

Dirty Bristow Village Fête

29 August 2010

New secondment at Podnosh

26 August 2010

Start publishing public sector data online

25 August 2010

MPs, ethical email and social media surgeries

9 August 2010

Designing with grids

16 June 2010

New portfolio redesign

15 June 2010

An update on what I'm doing

27 April 2010

WordPress blog setup for Councillor Ken Hawkins

26 January 2010

Why I want to track Google Spreadsheets views with Google Analytics

11 January 2010

Monitoring views of published Google Documents with Google Analytics

9 January 2010

WordPress makeover for SMASH

31 December 2009

First anniversary of Birmingham social media surgery

11 November 2009

One-page web design for James Wood Consulting

13 October 2009

What do people talk about at social media surgeries?

24 September 2009

My WxWM2 talk on geotagging life experiences

29 May 2009

Sixth social media surgery for voluntary and community groups in Birmingham

14 May 2009

Prevent trackbacks when linking between posts within your WordPress site

11 May 2009

Vintage photography memorabilia

22 March 2009

Planning a web content management strategy

16 February 2009

Third social media surgery for voluntary groups in Birmingham

30 January 2009

Content management for Hillu Liebelt

25 January 2009

Vote for Created in Birmingham

11 January 2009

2008 web roundup

30 December 2008

Subscribe to Google Blog Search with RSS

8 December 2008

Example podcast RSS feed

2 December 2008

Social media surgery for voluntary organisations in Birmingham

27 November 2008

Email newsletter design for Ladder Consulting

19 October 2008

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