About The Author

Ben Sekulowicz-Barclay is a twenty-six year old developer from London in the UK. He is the Technical Lead for Outside Line, (a rather nifty media company based in Exmouth Market) where he heads up the department who produce ‘all the technical stuff to make things work’ for some of the biggest bands, brands, award shows and companies in the country.

Ben specialises in developing accessible, usable websites using HTML and CSS, and in using Javascript the ‘right way’ – as a tool to enrich the user experience while not affecting the site for non-Javascript users. He is also an expert in PHP/MySQL development and using the MVC design pattern to deliver web-applications that are well-structured, scaleable and efficient.

Ben is the creator of Flickrshow, a simple Javascript based slideshow that can be embedded in almost any website and displays images from a Flickr user's photostream, set or pool. Its on its sixth version and serves thousands of slideshows a day.

For more information on Ben’s work, take a look at his CV/resume.

Away from work, Ben is a keen traveller and amateur photographer and has taken some half decent images of the Great Wall of China, wholesale tuna haggling at Tokyo's Tsukiji market and the Mojave Desert. Ben dislikes industry buzzwords, June Sarpong and talking in the third person.

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About The Site

Beseku is the personal website of Ben Sekulowicz-Barclay. Its primary function has rotated through being a portfolio, a weblog, a photographic gallery and a tumblelog. This current incarnation is probably closest to a weblog in its structure and a portfolio and showcase in its content.

The current version of the site exemplifies my growing interest in design as seen through the eyes of a developer, with a focus on the methodologies involved in creating a structural grid and strong typographic rhythm. The colours and font choices are intended to showcase the content and concentrate the reader rather than add visual clutter.

Although I am by no means a designer, I enjoy experimenting, tweaking and rebuilding and this site is testament to that – there are numerous previous versions, some of which I have kept around at v6, v7, v8 and v10.beseku.com.

This site is built using HTML and CSS, with a smattering of Javascript to pull the design together. Expression Engine is throwing out all of the content, and the whole thing is hosted with the guys at Mediatemple – this site sits on the same Grid server as Flickrshow and all of my other projects.

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