I began to build it in June 2007 and considered myself lucky to find the domain unoccupied. I would have used an Australian domain ('.au') and as only commercial entities can register them I got an ABN in May 2009 and registered both.

I'm still working on the site and this mostly involves adding links and editing text.

None of the time spent here is wasted. The big effort in 2007 covered a lot of the timeline material. Then, in 2009, I started to upload examples of work from different jobs held over the years. In 2010 I started adding pages for feature stories published in commercial magazines.

Most printed photos and original artworks are reduced to 40 per cent of the scanner's default resolution. Rotating and cropping are as precise as possible.

The main exceptions are the book covers and book title pages in the margins of timeline pages. These are 140 pixels wide. Recent photos, taken with a digital camera, are reduced to 30 per cent and then 60 per cent of the default resolution.

PC

Sept 2006 to July 2009	July 2009 onwards
HP Pavilion a1240a	HP Pavilion p6020a
Pentium 4 (P) 519 3.06GHz	Pentium Dual-Core ES200 @ 2.50GHz
2.3GB memory	3GB memory
160GB SATA hard drive	300GB SATA hard drive
HP vs17 LCD monitor	Samsung SyncMaster 2333 LCD monitor
-	Logitech LS11 speakers
Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Vista Home Premium (from Jan 2007)	Microsoft Vista Home Premium

The coloured pattern at the bottom of the home page where my name sits was added in September 2009 in place of the oiriginal design element. That one was a combination of a Western design with some geeky blended colours. The new element is a desaturated clip from a reproduction of a 15th century Qur'an from Herat, Afghanistan, and the clip is taken from The Arts of Islam: Treasures from the Nasser D Khalili Collection, Art Gallery of NSW, 2007.

I did use part of Lloyd Rees's 1978 etching Iron Cove, Sydney Harbour on the home page (scanned from Lloyd Rees, Etching and Lithographs, a catalogue raisonne, Beagle Press, 1986) but I removed it in September 2009 when I added the Twitter feed. In November 2009 I removed the Twitter feed because it didn't display reliably, and the blog feed because it was hard to read.

Neville Brody, talented typographer

The koala in the signature element - which is also an original design - is Bunyip Bluegum drawn by its creator, Norman Lindsay. The black, pointed part of the signature element is by Neville Brody. Other navigation graphics are also Brody's.

The 'm' which serves as the link to the home page on most pages is part of a typeface Brody designed in 1984 for The Face magazine.

He started a three-year BA course at the London College of Printing in 1976, but is quick to express reservations about academia.

"The whole art college system collapses when all members of staff are full-time, and when they fail to recognise that it is not they who have to go out and find a job afterwards," he says (The Graphic Language of Neville Brody, text and captions by Jon Wozencroft, Thames and Hudson, London, 1988, p. 10).

"I complied with the curriculum requirements because I needed the chance to explore those ideas too," continues Brody (ibid). "If tutors said they liked something that I was doing, I would go away and change it, because such approval then made me think there must be something wrong with the work" (ibid). Brody quickly found a job, serving as art director at The Face from 1981 to 1986.

The font is named 'Typeface Three'. Wozencroft says Brody "felt that there was no typeface at the time that suited the specific mood he sought for The Face. The gemoetric quality of the type was authoritarian, drawing a parallel between the social climate of the 1930s and the 1980s" (op cit, p. 26).

The Wikipedia says that by the magazine's "May 2004 closure, the format had become stale". Publisher EMAP now sees healthy revenues from its weekly women's title Grazia.