About Tyssen Design

Tyssen Design (ABN: 30 612 990 232) was started in August 2005 by John Faulds (me). I am a freelance web designer and developer based in The Gap, Brisbane, an advocate of web standards-driven and accessible design, and a member of the ExpressionEngine Pro Network. I've produced websites for businesses both large and small, and not-for-profit and community organisations. I've worked directly with clients on their projects and also as a subcontractor for other marketing and design agencies located in Australia, the U.K., the U.S., Singapore, Norway and Portgual.

I've been freelancing full-time since 2008, but have been involved with websites since 1998 and have been pushing shapes, text and pictures around on computer screens with a mouse since the beginning of the ’90s.

I started my working life as a journalist and subeditor working for regional newspapers in Western Australia but found I wasn’t very good at asking tough questions and so I gradually became more involved in the design side of things doing A3 layouts on an Apple Classic with a massive 9” screen.

Fast forward a few years and I was working for national newspapers in the U.K. when I had the opportunity to join the team put together to create a sports website for The Daily Express in time for the 1998 World Cup. Some long hours were worked but we got there and then had to endure much hair-pulling and furniture kicking when Beckham kicked Simeone and England went out in a penalty shootout.

The next few years saw me work for a variety of sporting websites, including the UEFA website for the 2000 European Football Championships in the Netherlands.

Coming from newspapers I started off in editorial positions but again began gravitating towards design and development. Since then I’ve (moved back to Australia and) worked as designer, developer, editor, project manager, copywriter, search engine optimiser, webmaster and general layout troubleshooter.

Where else to find me

• My personal site
• LinkedIn
• Zerply
• Twitter
• Google+

The name

‘Tyssen’ is the name of a little street in Dalston, London that I used to live near for a few years while I was in the U.K. from 1995-2002. I started using the name as my forum handle in 1998 or 1999 which I then started using as my DJ name

The site

This site is built to the current web standards with CSS/HTML and without the use of tables (except for tabular data) and uses ExpressionEngine as its content management system.

I have an active interest not only in good-looking, functional web design, but also in web design that is accessible and usable to as many users as possible, including those with disabilities. Information about this and the other features is available on the Accessibility page.

Archived designs

This design is version 2 of the Tyssen Design website. The home page of Version 1 (2005-2006) has been archived.