In August 2005 TV Newsroom was launched and has remained a quirky and important site for anyone interested in the operation and presentation of news on television.  With exclusive images of reporters covering live events, as well as Q&A’s with popular newscasters, TV Newsroom offers a unique group of content for its visitors.

In August 2006 we began discussing giving the site an updated look  but the big changes didn’t arrive until January 2007, with the advent of CSS and XHTML and the way they influenced web design.

The then refreshed – but still – table driven website (yes I know how bad were those!), was in need of a ruddy good shake up.  So having worked together for some time, the site’s owner Johnnie Larkin approached me once again, wanting to see some proposals for a new design which was fresh and modern, but worked with the same content and layout as was being used.

This design was sympathetic with what had come before, but was given a darker and more striking design, which had its roots in big bold headlines as you would find in the red-top tabloid newspapers.

In early 2007 a good friend of mine Mike Damiani – known across the web as TSA – contacted me regarding a project he wanted to start based around coverage of Nintendo’s place in the gaming industry.  Having run a popular Legend of Zelda community site, he wanted to move into a more journalistic role and so work started.

In March 2007 I began working with Mike and the staff members he began to gather, in deciding what we were to be called.  Eventually we decided as we wanted to give the site a sober and minimalist design, the name Zentendo would be ideal…  That and it was a unique name!

We had hoped to be online in time to cover the biggest annual gaming event E3 which was in May, unfortunately a number of technical issues with the backend systems meant we had to launch in July, but content had been prepared over the E3 event, and the site went live with extensive material.

Zentendo Website