Project portfolio
I am a professional web designer and developer, focussing on clean, standards-based HTML and CSS. I've been working in the web field since 1997, both freelance and employed, on a range of projects from design work and theme implementation all the way up to bespoke and open source content management.
Here are some selected case studies of projects I have worked on:
Routes into languages is a UK government funded project to increase the takeup of language learning among schoolchildren via providing increased support for language teachers and educators.
Working closely with the designer, I was responsible for selecting the CMS platform and implementing the technology for the basis of this site. I led a critical analysis of the client and end-user needs, and on this basis, evaluated a number of possible content management solutions. Important...
I worked on this site over a four year period whilst employed at LLAS.
Originally a bespoke .NET CMS, I was initially responsible for the maintenance of this CMS and adding new features which involved extensive use of VB.NET and HTML/CSS. Significant work included rewriting the public facing part of this CMS from scratch to incorporate a page templating system to make the pages to be more consistently themed and easier to update. I also implemented a system for administrative staff to...
ChG Southampton is a spinout company from the University of Southampton, specialising in rare glass production.
As a freelance job, I was brought in here to do some updates to an existing site. This involved the assesment and rationalisatioon of the site's many existing pages, as well as some extra .NET and HTML content work. I also built paypal integration into the product pages, with the aim of allowing people to buy custom glass items.
The brief for this project was to create a small yet informative website for a local post-production sound company. The client required 5 initial pages to provide a web presence and inform prospective customers of the company's existence and contact information.
I chose a gray and dark-green themed design here to match the colouring on the client's existing business cards. I also used angular shapes and double border lines to give a technical look appropriate to the subject matter....
This was a commission project for the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southampton. Their original design was extremely dated and was a difficult user experience. My brief was to update the navigation into an easy to read and use system, as well as incorporating new content from the latest departmental prospectus. Do this, and keep within the existing website design framework established and...