Miral Design is the online home of Adam Payne, a Staffordshire based web designer and photographer.

For my day job I work at a local High School in the roll of Network Manager, having previously held the role of IT Technician. At work we strive to better the school network to benefit teaching and learning.

My experience with web design started at a young age - making my own websites at home at the age of 12, with the help from 'My First Web Site', a simple book teaching the basics of HTML. Several years later having left school and moved to FE I rekindled my love of web design whilst studying. Learning ASP and CSS in the process.

Through out the years, starting from a young age I have always enjoyed image editing, I even remember working on MS Paint on Windows 3.11 to create a Stoke City football shirt, nowadays I prefer to use Adobe Photoshop CS5 to achieve some images I am very proud of. Some of these are in the portfolio section but an archive can be found on deviantART.com.

Having recently purchased a new Camera, Canon 450D, I am hoping to reignite my love of photography which I have let slide since studying photography at college due to many factors. I have always found photography to be a very relaxing past time and can make you look at the small things around us that we don't always see.