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Emma Watson makes FWA public shortlist

May 1st, 2010

Awards, Features, Front end, Javascript, Web development

I was lucky enough to work on the Emma Watson official site along with my colleges at great fridays, Manchester. I worked on the front end, XHTML slideshow & dynamic page scaling/re-sizing.

The site was greatly received by all the Emma fans with thousands of messages in the first few days of going live. Although the site is primarily XHTML we submitted to FWA and after a week of public voting, Emma Watson has made it to the public short list! Very exciting stuff, for more info view the site on FWA here :)

The Photo Guide, final year project

May 22nd, 2009

Front end, Photography, University, Web development, Wordpress, iPhone

The Photo Guide is my final year project; a community driven, portable photography guide for digital SLR camera users. I was fully responsible for everything from the design, time management, content, frontend (html, css, javascript) and backend (php). It was in development for around 3 months and accompanied by a 12000 word dissertation.

The site makes use of a wide variety of open source technologies, including: Wordpress, JQuery, Google Maps API, TinyMCE, Gravatar and Smart image resizer. I also created a mobile version of the site: Read the rest of this entry »

Poverty of the Mind

May 14th, 2009

Awards, Front end, Javascript, Photography, University, Web development

Using a series of five images for a online social experiment titled ‘Poverty of the Mind’ to raise awareness and offer support to people with mind poverty. The images use a minimal and saturated style manipulated to look like scenes from an office workers bad day. The style is consistent throughout the series. The expressions and negative body language of the main subject helps to show his state of mind and feelings about his current work situation. Read the rest of this entry »

asp.Net theatre booking & admin system

March 29th, 2009

Front end, University, Web development

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A web development project built using asp.NET. The brief was to create a fully functioning, database driven ticket booking service for a made up theatre company. Detailing all shows, venues, cast, productions and performances, the ability for customers to register then book tickets and for admin to add/maintain all content.

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Ebay Shop Design & Customization

January 7th, 2009

Front end, Web development

Yesterday I was asked to design and completely customize an Ebay Shop, I had seen it done before by some large companies trading on Ebay such as Schuh, so I rose to the challenge.

Ebay make the shops fool proof and ‘easy’ for shop owners to add brand identities and style, it’s understanding as the appeal of Ebay trading is that anyone can do it no matter what their business background or web development knowledge. However Ebay make it extremely hard for web developers to customize beyond this and to make shops attractive and unique is a challenge. Read the rest of this entry »