My skills:photoshop,xhtml,css,javascript,etc...

Portfolio

S-cool

S-cool produces educational products and services that are used by over ¾ of local authorities in the UK.

Examples

Roles and responsibilities

  • Create high quality designs for new sites, new sections and redesigns.
  • Produce designs for use on multiple web sites. The designs are required to easily integrate with various other themes.
  • Implement designs using latest techniques.
  • Keep up to date with the latest technologies.
  • Liaise with developers to create templates and give advice on DOM structure and semantics.
  • Attend scoping meetings as a key member of the design team to give advice and appropriate recommendations on future projects.
  • Estimate timescales for project planning.
  • Feedback on sprint success and suggest improvements to help streamline workflow.
  • Work closely with internal and external stakeholders throughout projects.
  • Create branding guideline documentation.
  • Design and create branding and marketing material, from newspaper adverts to free standing conference banners.
  • Generate compelling HTML email newsletter designs.

Live links

Dyson Ltd.

The role as New Media Designer/Developer involved creating designs and turning them into fully functional web pages using the latest technologies and techniques. This was always challenging and required the use of many different skills.

  • Dyson UK site

    Dyson website - home page

  • Dyson Pruduct page

    Dyson website - product range page

  • Dyson Pruduct details page

    Dyson website - product details range page

  • Dyson and Issey Miyake

    Dyson and Issey Miyake

  • James Dyson Foundation

    James Dyson Foundation

Roles and responsibilities

  • Create and present designs for Dyson’s online presence and e-commerce sites.
  • Attend scoping meetings and give advice and recommendations on future projects.
  • Ensure designs conform to strict print brand guidelines while expanding (create new styles) the online brand.
  • Produce HTML pages with semantic code and styled using CSS. If required, dynamic interaction is added using unobtrusive JavaScript or Flash. Pages were coded to an XHTML specification of 'Transitional' or 'Strict' making a DOM structure that is better for search engine optimization and allowing easy access to the page content by other technologies.
  • Produce Flash files using either timeline based or dynamically with Action Script depending upon the content. These projects could require the Flash file to be a standalone or more dynamically driven.
  • Ensure all images produced for the site are always to the highest quality and smallest file size possible without loss of detail.
  • Manage time and prioritise work on multiple projects to ensure it is completed on time.
  • Responsible for the creation of the intranet brand guidelines website.
  • Lead role for the execution of site creation for use in foreign countries, over 30 changing languages and structure to suit the territory requirements.
  • Organise files for upload from Dev to Stage and Live environments.
  • Mentoring junior web developers and designers giving guidance and technical support on a daily basis. I have found this to be a great way to reaffirm my own knowledge and also to inspire others to be as involved in making sure everything is pixel perfect.

Flash animation links (awaiting size handler page)

Live links

Sutton Floors

Sutton Floors is a bristol based company with nine years of experience in the flooring industry covering all aspects of floor coverings.

Roles and responsibilities

  • Create logo and branding.
  • Design and produce site.
  • Register URL.
  • Upload and host site.

More details to be added shortly.

Party crechers

Bristol based events crèche company

Roles and responsibilities

  • Create logo and branding.
  • Design and produce site.
  • Register URL.
  • Upload and host site.

More details to be added shortly.

Colshe

Bristol based used car company

Roles and responsibilities

  • Create logo and branding.
  • Design and produce site.
  • Register URL.
  • Liaise with Auto Trader to intergrate stock page.
  • Upload and host site.

More details to be added shortly.

Next stage for this site

Currently trying to combine jCarousel Lite and lightbox. Bug is repeated images. Bug done - need to style, implement and upload

  • Portfolio: Improve layout, content and add more examples.
  • Footer: Style each section to look like cut out (maybe make Contact Me look like a sticker so it stands out from the twitter?), Improve style on twitter sections, add contact form.
  • Header: Improve image on the right
  • Letterbox: Create animated letterbox using Flash, use text block for no flash site.
  • Browser: Check in the 2 latest browsers. (not IE6. "woo-ha-ha")