This was a really quick HTML website that needed some integration with third-party systems to allow the site owner (a freelance designer I work with occasionally) to be able to make changes to the site and accept feedback. The main site itself was all put together using HTML and CSS and after sharing the FTP [...]
Building Martel Maides a new website was a fairly large undertaking and involved a website build, plenty of custom functionality as well as a complex integration project with their existing back-end system. The website look and feel was provided by a third-party designer and my task was to build the entire site from the ground up including some elements of design, but mostly a large amount of HTML and back-end code which in this case was Ruby.
This wordpress site uses a highly integrated design, that allows for the company to add or modify their services and for the information to filter right through the site. This included an accordion menu and javascript fading banners, all aimed at letting the company promote their services to the best of their ability.
Independent Risk Reporting was a two part project, firstly to create a simple informational homepage and contact for for the client and secondaly to create a risk reporting questionnaire system, this brief port covers the brichure website that was created with PHP and the Smarty framework.
Web standards and why I really don’t care Originally published: 2nd March 2009 but before the content gets lost I thought I would republish it here! I really think this view is even more valid now we have HTML5 and CSS3 appearing, not to mention dealing with IE6, 7, 8 and 9! Read why I [...]
Despite the project still being in the early stages of development I managed to get to the final of Schroders sponsored Bright Young Things and received some great advise from my mentor Julian Winser. I’m sure this will all be a great help in the long-term development of this creative agency workflow tool. It even [...]
We could see that a huge amount of SEO traffic was navigating to the calculator even though the links to the calculator were not emphasised. We added the calculator to try and engage that traffic in order to improve CTE. By giving customers access to the functionality that they want we hoped to keep them [...]
Rails migrations are brilliant. I say this because until now I had heard of them, seen articles about them and like poor misguided VB programmers I had completely ignored them. They make loads of potentially tricky database migration, rollback and versioning issues a doddle but mainly (from my point of view) they mean I can [...]
I’ve entered a charity event somebody at work is running and in a bid to get the highest priced ebay item I’m shamelessly linking to my site everywhere I can. It’s a charity event raising funds for the NSPCC! The aim is to sell a £5 item from a charity shop on ebay – to [...]
The Central Capital Mortgages site has been running for a number of years with limited profitability. My redesign has made huge improvements and at present other marketing campaigns have been suspended to concentrate on PPC as it has become the most profitable channel for the business. The site went live Jan 2007. This new design [...]