Hello, my name is Andy, and I'm a nineteen year old student from Liverpool. I'm currently studying away from home, which keeps me away from the city I love. But, I'm loving life at the moment.

I have been running Thinktank since late 2005, coming up to five years, which is actually quite a long time. I've always had an interest in design, and web design inparticular, and hopefully that interest shows. I've chosen against pursuing design as a career, because I like keeping it as a hobby.

My other interests are music, films, watching TV and going out and getting filthy drunk with a student loan. My music interests are really diverse - I use this great website the Hype Machine, which I've now implemented into Thinktank proper, to find new music. I'm a big fan of all sorts of TV shows, from head-scratchers like Lost, to comedies like the Big Bang Theory and Family Guy, and even cheesy shows like Ugly Betty and Glee. Yes, I just admitted to that, and I apologise.

You may know me from the springfield connection, the other website that I run. If you've never seen it, bounce on over there. In truth I really don't enjoy the show as much as I used to, but it's nice having a recognised website out there.

In all honesty, Thinktank is a web-design blog. As much as I love writing the blog posts to fill it, I love redesigning it the most - because it gives me complete freedom, that I don't have when I'm designing anything else. I learn a lot when I'm designing Thinktank, and I hope that - when you look at the past designs - you think that I've improved as time has gone by. That's definitely how I feel, although now I feel like I'm reaching the stage where I experiment more and break out of the standard blog format. I've admired sites like Tumblr from afar, allowing users to post anything they discover - and that is what I was going for this time, for version eight.

I design the site in Adobe Photoshop CS3, and then I build the site up - based on what I've come up with in Photoshop - using pure hand-coded CSS and HTML, written in Notepad. This always takes more time than the design stage, but it lets the design grow on me.

I'd like to say a quick thank you to Mike, from The Broken Minor, for providing me with hosting. Without him, Thinktank would have probably died a few years ago.