I've experimented with web design since 1995, when I eagerly reserved a place on the Geocities web site and filled it with hand-crafted HTML and pictures created with Personal Paint on the Amiga. Unfortunately the only problem was that I had nothing of any great interest to say.

Having only a 14.4k modem in those early days really emphasised the frustrations involved in downloading self-indulgent pages with huge graphics and animation. Web design was in danger of favouring the "everything but the kitchen sink" approach, where clear, useful information was swamped by ornamentation.

A couple of friends and I shared this ideology and decided to set up a web design company devoted to producing clean, fast, yet effective and graphically rich web pages. The result was the One Stop Web Shop, formerly located at www.onestopwebshop.com. We had precisely no customers and decided to call it a day after a few months.

I'm still quite proud of the logo, though the execution is a little naff. All the graphics were created on an Amiga 1200, which I never thought I'd give up.