Visual Lizard
Julian Moffatt
Julian is one of the founders of Visual Lizard Inc and a web/tech-junkie if there ever was one. He has a small collection of iPods (3 and counting) and a Blackberry 7250 for those times he is actually away from his computer.
Having been first introduced to computers at the tender age of 6, Julian has had at one point or another: an IBM PC XT, an Apple 2e, a Fujikama 286 (with a 256 colour monitor!!) through to the first computer he personally purchased, a glorious 486 PC with 40MBs of hard drive space and a 16-bit graphics card for $4200 in 1990. Coincidentally, that was his first loan as well. However, it was the 486 that led to the discovery of newsgroups (remember alt.rocknroll before Usenet?) and Pine, the worlds worst application for email ever. In-fact, some would say that his addiction to X-com and Pine caused him to take a break from University to pursue "something to do with computers dad". The rest is history as they say.
He works with a MacBook Pro in the office and is equally at home in front of Linux, Windows or OS X operating systems. He is project manager, design shepherd (he speaks designer fluently and has been known to run in certain design circles under an alias) and CSS guru. He also brow beats the guys in the office about accessibility, Search Engine Optimization and the importance of music to the soul.
When Julian is not actually working, he can be found enjoying time at the hockey rink with the guys, beating small synthetic dimpled balls across acres of manicured land or just hanging out with family and friends at home or the cottage.
In spite of all of the above, Julian has an awesome wife, two crazy-cute daughters (3 and 1), 2 cats and a dog that has moved out citing breach of contract under the "no-child-and-dog-cohabiting" clause. She visits from time to time, but can be found relaxing on a pile of sheep-skins at the grandparents house most days.
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A Website
Well, this is it. Welcome to the new visuallizard.com web site. Yes. It took long enough. We know.
We could make any number of excuses, such as:
- the client kept us busy
- the dog ate our Information Architecture
- our iPod that had the site on it crashed (sorry Wil)
- the client kept us busy
- our designer (me) kept throwing out his designs and starting over
- our copy writers (us) kept throwing out our copy and starting over
- did we mention the client kept us busy?
But we won't make excuses. That would be lame.
Over the next few months, there will be a new design on the site (yeah. I know. I'm insane, but I can't help it. It is in my blood.), we will be posting various articles on design, web development, programming and technology.
We have been working towards this for years and we now finally have a system in place to do everything we had hoped we could do online. It took a long time, but it was well worth the wait.
Comments are open, let us know what you think!
Comments
From The Web
Dec 24, 2008
HTTP Client - Mac Developer Tool for HTTP Debugging
Very nice tool. Dwayne - make sure you download this one ASAP!
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Dec 18, 2008
i Love Katamari
For the iPhone no less!
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Dec 17, 2008
GitHub
Social code repository hosting. Pretty awesome idea and some wicked projects on the go in there. We are an SVN shop at present, but GIT does have us thinking about moving.
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Dec 02, 2008
24 ways: Easing The Path from Design to Development
24 ways kicked off a few days ago. Here is a terrific article for our all our designer friends.
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Dec 02, 2008
How to answer the phone
Quick note from Seth Godin on how to answer the phone. It is absolutely true.
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Nov 28, 2008
99 Graphic Design Resources
A nice list of sites for reference. I.
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Nov 28, 2008
This is How the Web Gets Regulated
Joe Clark makes some terrific points about the state of online video captioning. Read it and remember that accessibility online means for accessibility for everyone.
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Nov 26, 2008
Get Satisfaction - People-Powered Customer Service
Interesting. Filed for later.
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