About the author
Thanks for stopping by my site. I am a senior web designer from Sydney, Australia currently living and working in London. My work mainly revolves around user experience design for the web. I try to balance visual beauty, usability and functionality in my work. At the core of this is a strong communication focus and enabling the user to achieve their goals in the simplest fashion. In general, I have a strong appreciation for great looking design that works, and aim for simple elegance in my work.
After traveling through Asia, the US, Central America and South America, I am now working in London to broaden my horizons a little (and see a bit of Europe while I’m at it). I am currently working as a senior designer at Snow Valley, working on large e-commerce websites.
Outside of work I’m into music, games (of all kinds), hanging out with mates and a bit of travel. I also still tend to think about web and techy stuff outside of work… (geek!). Update: As of late December 2006, I’m a PADI certified Open Water scuba diver. Yay!
You can reach me by using my contact form or by emailing me at hank [at] henrytapia.com
About this site
This is the 2nd edition of Gradient Dropshadow Curve, the weblog of Henry Tapia, and the 3rd design of HenryTapia.com.
Gradient Dropshadow Curve uses a concoction of Wordpress 2.0.3, K2 and 3 column K2, with a lot of modding of my own.
I am using various plugins for Wordpress to enhance the site, including: Custom Query String, FlickrRSS, Favatars, Geo, Plug ‘n’ Play Google Maps and of course Akismet to take care of spam. I even wrote a plugin of my own for the welcome message on the home page (I’ll link it when I have time to document it properly).
This site should be 100% valid XHTML 1.0 (Transitional). I try to make sure this is always the case, but if there are any errors, please get in touch.
The “hankenstein” illustration (above) I’ve used from place to place was a gift given to me by my good friend and colleague Anton.
I don’t really like to use the word “colophon“… but that’s just me.
