Web Design Portfolio
I've been building websites for my own amusement since 1998 (my very first site actually remained live until the demise of Geocities in 2009); though it was not until after I graduated that I decided to pursue it seriously.
I started taking on freelance work in early 2008 (scroll down to see a couple of examples!), and became a full-time front-end developer in March 2010.
I am an ardent believer in web standards, accessibility, and have a deep and abiding love of well-written CSS.
I also do the odd spot of graphic design, and am tentatively making steps toward a proper understanding of JavaScript and PHP.
Commissioned Sites
Marion Derrett - Portrait and Landscape Artist
An absolute joy of a project - it was fantastic to have so many great images to work with, and I'm really pleased with how it all worked out.
The site launched in August 2009.
Update 23/02/2010: The index page now has an animated slideshow! Special thanks to Jon Raasch for providing the JavaScript.
Wye Valley Cakes
Wye Valley Cakes is a small company based in Herefordshire. They wanted to replace their existing site's generic template with a more personal design.
I was given a set of photographs of pink and white iced cupcakes, which provided the inspiration for the colour scheme.
The site launched in February 2009 (though at the time of writing still needs some minor tweaking to get it to play nicely with the CMS).
My Development Toolkit
- TextMate
- CSSEdit
- Safari
- Photoshop Elements
- The W3C Validation Services (HTML and CSS)
- WAVE
- Colorblind Web Page Filter
- Lynx Viewer
- IE NetRenderer
- Hex Hub
Currently Testing With
- Safari 3
- Firefox 3
- Opera 9
- Internet Explorer 6
- Internet Explorer 7
- Internet Explorer 8
- iPhone
Special Thanks To...
I found the following books particularly valuable while building Aeolian Squee:
- Web Standards Creativity by Cameron Adams et al
- DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith