Web design - freelance and business
I make websites and web applications. I create layouts, visuals and walkthroughs in Photoshop, and build websites using xHTML and CSS.All of my sites are w3c compliant, so they work on all recent web browsers and are accessible by all.
I code in PHP these days. I have several years experience in Classic ASP (VBScript) prior to this. I'm also a big fan of jQuery too.
Hosting, domains, and search engine optimisation
I operate a dedicated server and provide hosting, domain registration and mail services for all my clients, with fast reliable web hosting and IMAP mail accounts available. My server is backed up off-site weekly.
How I work
I work with my clients to create a brief for the project and present a visual portfolio which provides a proposed solution for the brief: here's an example.
I build the project and integrate services and systems as required.
Once the client is happy with our work, we launch the project.
Recent websites
October 6th: JBA New Retail Site
After a development cycle lasting over a year, we're stoked to finally release the new version of the JBA Seed Potatoes retail store.
The new site is a complete teardown and rebuild of the old site, which was built on a system dating back to 2007 and was the very model of feature creep. We wrote an entirely new back-end system from the ground up, which controls content to this site and JBA's wholesale sister site.
We've focused strongly on ease of use on the new site: there's a lot of new functionality to make the buying process as simple as possible, but two of my favourites have to be the instant product filters (with permalinks) and the 'Notify me when this product is in stock' function.
This project was marred by the unexpected passing of our programmer, Yabba, which I've blogged about elsewhere. A tragic loss, and much missed.
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August 4th: Horses for courses
Lead Rope is an equine assisted training company based in Southern Scotland: we launched their new site this month. Working to a very specific brief, we went for a clean, modern feel to promote their corporate and executive training, building a custom theme for Wordpress based on their logo colour scheme.
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May 24th: Vintage Massey Ferguson
A mix of business and pleasure here, putting together a site to catalogue a private collection of vintage tractors. We used a combination of vintage photos, scanned pictures from the last two decades, and a quick on-site shoot to put together an eye-catching design which reflected the heritage of the collection.
For those of you keeping your browsers up-to-date, there's some nice CSS3 effects here, including box shadow/bevel effects and item transformation. It's lovely doing this in CSS rather than pre-production in Photoshop: not only can you make multiple changes through the stylesheet, you also get graceful degradation for restricted users.
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May 19th: Corner House Hotel
A nice new brand and website for this local hotel. We carried out a couple of photoshoots earlier in the year and added some custom content in a custom-developed Wordpress theme, with a little custom-built Javascript work to add the final touches.
