The Loft Group
While I worked at The Loft Group, I had the chance to work on many awesome web projects. They completely changed the way I approached my work and gave me the grounding I needed to make way in this industry. Thanks guys.
Year: 2009
Graphic Design by: Nick Williams
Site Development: Andy Jones
My Role: Custom content managment system integration; Custom blog, donations ticker, and donations counter integration (PHP to Flash via XML); Donations form integration with SecurePay API (PHP/XML); Content Entry; Custom image gallery programming.
Notes: The project itself was epic!
Year: 2009
Graphic Design by: Nick Williams
My role: Site development; Google Maps, Street View, and directions embeding; Image gallery elements and YouTube video embeding.
Notes: This website was orginally meant to include an Interspire Shopping cart, however plans were scaled back during development.
Graphic Design by:Nick Williams
My role: Converting site from ASP.NET to html; Building a PHP/MySQL based tenders application and submission system designed by Andy Jones.
Notes: For some reason I kept on finding little technical challenges to solve in this project. As a result, we delivered quite a solid application system. I gained a lot of PHP/MySQL experience with this one.
Year: 2009
Graphic Design by: Nick Williams
My role:Website cut-up and build, contact form and careers page, and complete sales reporting tools via a secure login. These reporting tools made extensive use of components such as FCKeditor, JQuery.Sheet, and TCPDF.
Notes: I had fun with this project and it has given me a lot of inspiration about all sorts of different problems I can solve for other businesses.
Graphic Design by: Nick Williams
Site Development: Andy Jones
My role:Content management system upgrades, newsletter archive and dynamic PDF display, PayPal integrated shopping cart.
Graphic Design by: Nick Williams
Site Development: Andy Jones
My role: Installation, configuration, and theming of Unite social media network software (based on Elgg).
Notes: My role in this website was minimal, and mostly restricted to the development of the social media network integration. At first I wasn't fond of the software chosen to build upon, but after toiling over the code for a couple of weeks, I finally tamed the beast.
Graphic Design by: Nick Williams
My Role: XHTML/CSS cut-up; Site build; logo slideshow; Unite (Elgg) installation, configuring, and theming.
Notes: I had originally made the scrolling logo slideshow using JQuery but we changed it to Flash because the transitions were a lot smoother. This website also had a Unite package installed as well. By the time I got to work on this site, most of the hurdles with Unite were already solved.
Graphic Design by: Nick Williams
Site development: Jake Gonzales
My role: Maintenance, optimisation and contact form; Site launch.
InSilico
Although I was not here for long, working for InSilico was one hell of eye opener. They do things differently! It was here where I was exposed, if not overloaded with innovation and Paul O'Neil's just-plain-awesomeness (I bow to thee). While working here I also learnt that deep down in this programmers head of mine, there is an illustrator/designer desparate to get out.
Web Design by: Adam Trickett
Site development: Adam Trickett and Lee Karolczak
My role: Site design, cut-up, and build; image maintenance; image gallery design; contact form.
Zeroed In Media
With a name like that, it sounds like a big company right? WRONG. Its just me, a coffee, a notepad, and my laptop, and I've started my own business. Here be all the websites I leave in my wake.
Web Design by: Adam Trickett and Danielle Stevens
Site development: Adam Trickett
My role: Site design, cut-up, and build; image maintenance; content entry; contact form; basic SEO.
Notes: This was my first client as ZIM and was a challenge because I trying to work on this website in addition to setting up meetings with other clients, working on my business website, and getting snowed under in all the paperwork. Not an easy task.