design for screen
I am a front-end web designer/developer with skills including XHTML, CSS and JavaScript. My freelance work has given me a grounding in a wide range of working practices, independently or as a member of a team, from home or on-site, communicating across different departments and externally with clients.
Many websites I have worked on have since been redesigned or vanished entirely, including: Which? Online, Capital Radio, Microsoft Network, The Post Office, Time Out, NTL, Ford, MVC and Hasbro.
Venda templating
static caravan
Static caravan recordings is an independent record label, producing cutting edge electronic music. The site was built using ASP fed from an Access database with a shopping cart from Resonance.
The original flash site uses snippets of the label's varied output and plays the jukebox as streaming mp3 files.
hubble bubble
Suppliers of organic hand-made soaps, lotions and potions, Hubble Bubble's mission is to produce energising ethical skin and body products. This site was created using PHP5 and XML technologies using PayPal's shopping cart.
Hubble Bubble Website
blizzard
I was lead designer on one of the first web-based electronic 'zines with streaming sound. Blizzard was one of the cutting edge sites produced for the Microsoft Network by NoHo.
We launched a new edition every two weeks with a different design and navigation which gave this project an ever-evolving creative flow.
molton brown
Molton Brown required an Ecommerce site with a photography-led design style. The shopping cart used for this project was Actinic. The site got favourable reviews in a few of the design and internet publications such as New Media Age and Design Week when it launched. This site has since been updated.
Molton Brown Screens
xplorer
Lancashire County Council asked me to produce a presentation based on their Xplorer museum ticket which was put together using Flash MX.
Xplorer Presentation
Venda templating
If you have a site hosted by Venda using their templates and unique tag language, send an enquiry for a quote. Whether you need new templates building for products or pages, a new piece of Venda functionality as mentioned in their latest release notes, or even some general data maintenance in your VCP, all work can be undertaken no matter how small. Substantial cost savings can be made and you will receive the same high quality work, produced by an experienced programmer fluent in the use of Venda templating and tags.
website sos
Have you got a website you need to edit or update and cannot gain access to make changes?
Does each page take an hour to load? Is it low in the search engine results? Does it need a clean-up or do you need an entirely new website? Is it accessible to people with impeded eyesight? Does it comply to current web standards? Have you lost control of the site, do you need to change servers?
If any of these problems apply to your site, I can help get your site up to speed again. I have been helping businesses in Kendal optimise their sites, remove unwanted code and switch domains to give customers ownership of their websites.
search optimisation
Building a website can be a tricky business, designing it without paying heed to search engine optimisation can be catastrophic as no-one may be able to find you. However, building a site to old established marketing methods could get your site banned by Google - this happened to BMW in 2006.
I can help you with establishing your website in the world wide web, when your site is correctly optimised you can attract attention without stepping into bad SEO practices.
