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You’ll love this. You have a developer with a decent design knowledge, an editor and someone who knows about accessibility = web tailor. I design minimal and beautifully constructed websites for clients along with renewing existing websites for the web today.

web portfolio

PsychKicks ~ Modern Rock ‘n’ Roll? Awww yeah! When the people threw me the design which has a haze of miami beach with psychedelic feel to it, there is a good strong vibe about this! This is a quick and easy WordPress theme made from scratch using Forge (an amazing tool that help speed up development process) using role selectors and some little bits of jQuery goodness. Perfect.
Pista.cc ~ A blog about one man and his bike? Why yes! The design came out of the blue along with using new tools in my web developer’s brain. The site is viewable on all mobile and desktop browsers as media queries deals with the resizing. Other little tidbits is the spinning cog (hello CSS animation!), use of roles in the HTML, crafted quickly with compass and forge. You could say that learning WordPress from scratch is the best thing I have ever learnt.
AuburnRoo ~ This is my other half who needed a good design and based on WordPress to upload new posts and photos of artwork and sewing. The design was inspired after looking at the grid layout of the content at the beginning of the book, Indie Publishing which is a challenge to layout working with WordPress templates.
The Upstairs Gallery ~ It was time to support a local business and having hired their space to display my artwork, I offered my free time to redesign their website, newsletter and working with content to increase awareness of a gallery that won numerous awards since 2007.
John Nassari ~ Rosy Tsai came up with an interesting website design project for a popular wedding photographer located in London. The site was built using Jekyll to speed up the development process as the deadline was incredibly tight. Each page had a different background which was a big technical challenge, jQuery Backstretch saved the day among testing on many different resolutions (1024x768, 1280x800, 1650x1050+) to ensure that everything flows correctly.
Tomorrow Never Knows ~ Working with another talent designer Basile Cuvelier of The Partners. Tomorrow Never Knows is a project from Jerwood Visual Arts and for further reading, take a look at their award page. The website was built on WordPress for the Jerwood VA’s communication manager to update the website with press releases.
Sarah Haynes Gemstone Jewellery ~ The website contains a very minimal and straightforward design to display wonderful jewellery. It is built solely on BigCartel which is a brilliant online shopping service and it is easy for the client to have full control using their admin panel to upload photos, text, prices, etc. The checkout cart is handled by PayPal working very smoothly with BigCartel. This work has given me experience to build a design wrapping around BigCartel’s tools.
James Morgan Photography ~ Rosy Tsai redesign/realign the layout which was challenging to develop in WordPress as it brings in connections from PhotoShelter (photos), Vimeo (videos) and Huffington Post (blog). A mixture of HTML5, CSS3 and some jQuery work and using various WordPress plugins to power the website.
Paul Davies - A quick and easy minimal web design to display work and skills to promote his Information Security Consultant work.
Two Wounded Birds ~ Working with the talented web designer Rosy Tsai to come up with a different look and feel for a band from Margate. What, Margate? Yep, this band I believe are bringing back the hey days of wonderful surf rock, punk and whatever they can do to get a good tune that will stay around in your head for days. The website is built on Wordpress CMS using HTML5, CSS3 and some jQuery goodness. The listen section is based on the wonderful MediaElement.js allowing the tunes to flow on modern web browsers.
Barcon ~ Quick and easy website design built in a couple of hours for a security conference talk + beers. Using the famous coda slider to keep the content together without the need to load a page and bringing refreshing new look for the security crowd.
Drew Worthley ~ An amazing up and coming musician who wants to launch his new album “The Ember” along with the website offering a blog, gigs list, videos and online shop. Focusing primarily on using HTML5 and CSS3, it is built around Wordpress CMS featuring a HTML5 audio player streaming the album and an online shop which sells the physical album CD as well as digital downloads.
Deeper ~ One of the busiest and popular website online serving South African deep house mixes and was based on Moveable Type CMS. I gave the website a radical overhaul from a minimal design prospective, increased awareness and moved to Wordpress as requested. A couple of simple animation work using CSS3 lend this site a great look and feel. As the world of music is ever-changing, the mixes are now featured on iTunes Podcast.
East Sussex County Council ~ Completed a 6 months contract as a Web Editorial and Technical Support Assistant for the Governance & Community Services Department. They are one of the best team I have worked with as they ooze talent, talk the talk and have brilliant fast meetings. Here are the work I have carried out:

Supporting the team by carrying out browser and functionality testing on applications and pages developed by the team as well as external websites commissioned by East Sussex County Council.

Improving and working with accessibility on website by providing clear web content (part of SEO work) along with URLs and layouts since East Sussex County Council being the leading council to set the standards.

Working with the Web Services Manager and Editorial team to produce mock up web pages, wire frames and building web pages to create prototypes for new sections of the website, intranet or projects under development. Introduced new ways of designing by using modern web browsers instead of Photoshop.

Designed and developed websites using Kentico for small contracts work assigned by web manager. Example work: Cuckmere Pathfinder and East Sussex Strategic Partnership.

Worked on building Intranet from Photoshop PSD using HTML/CSS alongside with web developers.

Guided and worked with Adult Social Care department with YouTube access rights (sensitive materials).

Wrote accessibility guidelines to various social websites such as YouTube, Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. This includes training staff on how to use those social media network to their maximum potential in promoting services, events and updates by East Sussex County Council.

General bug fixing and technical tasks on website and intranet such as fixing broken links, deleting pages, file system management, creating channels using Microsoft Sharepoint.

Completed training courses in Plain English, Unica NetInsight and NetTracker.
Verbal ~ Assigned to implement to improve an existing Wordpress theme tidying up HTML/CSS and bugs.
Sign Circle Camping (2009 - 2010) ~ Sign Circle Camping is one of the exclusive deaf festival in the UK. I donated my service for free to produce artwork and build website with accessibility and awareness in mind. The website contained BSL (British Sign Language) videos explaining what the content on the page is about, gallery from past festivals, contacts and live blogging from the camp site.

self creative work:

Minimal Gamer ~ Playing games is one of my pastime and after reading a few reviews online, it was decided that the review system need rewriting with a more clear and thoughtful process.
Is it time for a cuppa yet? ~ I enjoy tea a lot, I dreamt up the idea quickly in 5 minutes to produce a simple website to offer different varieties of tea every hour. This was learning about Javascript and producing creative writing.