About

7 March 08

The making of this website has involved an unexpected medley of depressing mayhem, and finding joy in little details I never expected to find joy in.

Take the minty blue colour, for example, surrounding our lead feature. That makes me feel like I’m standing in a cool breeze, in a warm country, not hot, not cold… just fresh. I know, I’m a wanker.

And who’d have thought that HTML could make me and my web team happy. But it does, all the time.

My web team isn’t mine at all. We are a family, a brotherhood (with a sister). We are Jon Cook, Lydia Mossahebi and me.

Jon listens to dubstep, hip-hop and grime, that kind of thing. He wears multicoloured jackets, cares a lot about trainers, spends lots of money on them, only ever has extreme emotions (love and hate, mainly) and smokes.

Lydia is small, and quite quiet, but highly inquisitive. As I write she is wearing a dress with flowers on it, and she’s taken off her shoes. She doesn’t smoke.

I don’t smoke either.

On a more serious note, we are all proud of this website. None of us knew anything about coding, ftp’s, css’s, thumbnails, Word Press or Mimbo when we started. But now we dream of these things, against our will.

We have learnt a lot in the past month, a lot of things that a lot of people probably find really easy. But we feel like we’ve been on a web obsessed journey. And we are wiser.

We shall hopefully nurture this website to grow organically like a well-fed, well-watered tree or something. And we hope you, people of London, will provide a much needed readership for something that we reckon is pretty cool.

As is the print magazine - Londoners - which you should pick up. Especially because at this stage it’s free.

And to the credit of our creative, inventive, writing-tight-copy-to-a-tight-deadline writers, the content in the magazine is entirely separate from the content on the website.

So if you like what you read here, you will certainly like what you read in there.

For proof, click here.

Thanks much,

Tom Howard
Online Editor

PS: Much thanks to Chris Brauer, a walking, talking, troubleshooting Canadian. And to Kate Stroud, for helping edit our videos. Without whom we would be ruined.