Stuart Vallantine is a performance poet and visual artist. Born in 1979, Stuart’s drawings and poetry offers its readers and viewers unique perspective. Most of his drawings are a marriage of the mathematical and artistic form, heavily influenced by post 1945 architecture, hellish town planning and the architectural styles of Womersley and Wilson, G. Noel Hill and Lord Foster.
Regarded as “autistic” and “hyperactive” in his very early years, Stuart was diagnosed in 1986 with Semantic Pragmatic Language Disorder. Within that period, he gained an interest in public transport, which persists to this today. His specialist areas are ‘Greater Manchester Transport’ 1974 – 86, post deregulation bus operators and post Beeching era British Rail.
January 2006 saw the opening of the Stuart Vallantine web experience. This website, in the 1974 – 80 Greater Manchester Transport livery is a showcase for his poetry, drawings and longer articles.
He has also contributed to ‘Asperger Syndrome and Employment: Adults Speak Out About Asperger Syndrome’, released in March 2008 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
The Stuart Vallantine web experience address is http://www.stuartvallantine.co.uk
Hi Stuart ,
You don’t know me, my name is Barbara and I work with your sister Sarah. We had a conversation one day about websites because my daughter is learning how to do her own. Sarah told me how proud she was of you , and gave me your website address to look at….I am very impressed also !! It is a very easy to follow site and I enjoyed looking at all your photos.
I have listed it in my favourites and I will pop back from time to time to see how it is progressing.
Well done Stuart !!
Best wishes
Barbara
Hi Barbara,
Thank you for your comment – and congratulations on being the 100th person to do so within ‘East of the M60′! My website has a steady stream of visitors each day and was designed with maximum accessibility and cross-browser compatibility in mind from the start. This is the product of 6+ years experience in SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and web development.
From the start I decided against buying/downloading a template and decided to design my own from the start, so as to ensure improved user interface design and search engine friendly clean coding. My idea was ‘if my Nana could use it, then anybody can’ without having to think.
You can also look on Archive.org (search under http://www.stuartvallantine.co.uk) to see how the site has progressed since January 2006. I also recommend the book ‘Don’t Make Me Think’ by Steve Krug which is an excellent treatise on user interface design and web design. ‘Web Design on a Shoestring’ by Carrie Bickner is another great book on the subject.
Bye for now,
Stuart.