Portfolio
Database-driven websites
A web and software development company, NettMore focuses on providing business solutions that enhance productivity. The website is database-driven with a number of pages that are frequently amended and updated. XHTML template pages and CSS files were provided to the customer who implemented them to create the ASP.NET site that can now be visited.
A customer of NettMore, Holts Lapidary of Hatton Garden offer jewelery and objets d'art including bespoke design. Holts were looking for a re-design of their existing site that would accompany a re-work of the site content. NettMore built an extensive content-managed ASP.NET site to allow Holts a high degree of freedom when editing and updating the site content. I supplied a design that complemented Holts' newly refurbished shop, with particular focus on incorporating the look and feel of their unique shop front. The site design had to be robust so as to allow for a high level of content change driven by the customer.
Fletchers Management, a customer of Net Technical Solutions, represent artists of the fashion industry. The site acts as a portfolio of the artists' work and is therefore predominantly photographic. A compromise has to be reached between quality of image and file size. The pages need to be quick to download, yet the artists' work requires quality representation. This site was built pre-CSS2.
This very useful web application allows the visitor to down and up-load co-ordinates of walking routes to a GPS device. It also allows a walker to upload photographs to show views from the route. Comments and points of interest can be added to the route description, allowing a community to exchange walking experiences. The static design was supplied to the developer for implementation.
I supplied an identity and design for this web application that allows a user to upload travel information and view reports from mobile GPS devices.
Net Technical Solutions asked me to provide a re-design to their customer, Shield Medicare's, home page. Originally the home page used frames, tables and images and was difficult to maintain across five languages. The company's identity had changed and the home page needed to reflect the image conveyed in their literature. I provided CSS/XHTML templates for the ASP pages that offers plenty of space for headlines across languages, is easy to maintain via the content tool/database that Net Technical Solutions had developed and is visually more in keeping with Shield Medicare's brand.
Newsletter Publishing
Design, based on existing website, for shopping basket pages for ASP.NET site
Net Technical Solutions built an ASP.NET shopping basket process for their customer, Newsletter Publishing. I was approached to design the front end of the pages. They were to remain consistent to their current website's layout and look and feel. The project was submitted as XHTML/CSS pages for approval, before Net Technical Solutions applied the design to their ASP.NET site. Some tweaks to the CSS and code were made once the design was in place. Different stylesheets subtly change the appearance of the page according to which 'shop' the visitor is browsing.
A site offering free web tools to assist with the development and project management of websites, including a website specification generator, articles and a tool for generating google sitemaps.
A project of NettMore's, the Barnes Group website design was to mimic that of the existing US group company site. I developed a CSS/XHTML version to accommodate the content the UK company wished to present. These layouts were then applied by NettMore to an ASP.NET site driven by a custom-built content management system that the customer can operate.
Microsites for SPI Lasers
CSS stylesheets based on existing website designs
A number of microsites were created for SPI Lasers' reseller agents for different locales/countries, some of which used non-western character sets. This was done at low cost by providing a CSS file and images that altered the visual appearance of a basic site structure so that each microsite followed the look and feel of each company's own website. This project exemplifies how powerful CSS can be: a site can be totally re-branded without any need for code changes to the pages, simply by creating a separate CSS file.