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Binary Vision, a company with whom I do a lot of work for other clients (including the Royal Airforce, NHS, General Pharmaceutical and Central Office of Information) needed a few small "tweaks" to their existing website, as an interim step towards a full redesign.
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Band Back Together team decided to continue their charity mission by doing a calendar for 2012, celebrating strength in women. The proceeds of this calendar will go to Violence Unsilenced.
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Wickham Common Primary School needed a website that was easy to update and manage by the staff of the school, and gave them the freedom to separate the areas of the site into school and PTA management.
After 6 years of living in this house, we are finally going to get rid of it and have the floors sanded and sealed.
It's funny how you live with things that need fixing for so long just because they are familiar. After a while you don't even notice them, until you have to apologise for their horrendous offensiveness. Or until you go away for a month and come back to discover just how much more bright and offensive the carpet has become while you were away.
So with persian carpet in mind, I'd like to apologise for the teeny css glitches all over this site. They've been there so long, as each new browser is released I keep thinking that I must fix them. And yet I live with them.
Maybe I'll redo the entire site. Next year. I'll hire a sander and scrub the code back to the bare boards.
The only worry then is - what if I end up living with bare boards for a few years?
Only time can bring the answer to that.
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Orpington Symphony Orchestra is local orchestra and charity who needed to promote their concerts and increase their exposure in the local area and further afield.I set up the site in Moveable Type so that they could easily update the concert list and various pages when necessary.
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I had a wonderful opportunity to be part of a charity calendar which was based around the concept of a healthy body image. I designed and created the calendar pages, each of which depicted a real person, demonstrating how the idea of a perfect body is a pointless ideal. The calendar was sold to raise money for NEDA, the National Eating Disorder Association.]]>
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Elixir is a magazine style website which focuses on anti ageing and health discussion, offering promotions and reviews on various products and gadgets, as well as a wealth of articles on various topics
Elixir needed not just a facelift, but also a robust back-end, as the previous programming had been done bespoke by a company no longer available to update it. The set up was restrictive and bloated, and attempts to have outsourced companies add to it had resulted in messy and inaccurate code.
I converted the site into Moveable Type so that it could continue to grow, and take advantage of the well designed administration panel.
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Adrian Ashford is a traditional piano teacher who takes on individual students, but realised that a web presence would help him to reach potential local clients. The site was designed to reflect his style and encourage viewers to get in touch.
The site is a single page, as there is no need to list "services" or prices. Choosing a piano teacher requires a much more personal touch. There is no email address or contact page, because that's just not how Adrian operates. Instead, a hand written post-it note gives his phone number and lets them know to call in the evening or leave a message during the day.
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Atbell is an insurance company who specialises in church insurance and insurance for church groups, events and travel. They needed a more up to date website that was also easy to update and modify with good SEO to build on.
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Makalu 2010 is an expedition being undertaken to climb Makalu (8463m), the world's 5th highest mountain, by the notoriously difficult South East Ridge. Eight members of the British Armed Forces are aiming to be the first Britons to do this via the longest ridge on the mountain, the least climbed, and with much of the difficulty above 7000m, one of the most challenging. This website is a way to communicate both before and during the climb.
I designed the site for Binary Vision, who are currently in the process of building and refining it.
]]>But of course, I do have a place where I blog. At first I hesitated to join my personal blog with my professional site, but in the end I decided that as writing is something I hope to capitalise on more on in the future, then it only makes sense to link the two.
And in fact, I've just received my first "payment" for some writing I've done. It's very rewarding to be paid for your efforts. In the same way that it's very frustrating to do commissioned work and then not get paid for it.
I guess it all comes down to motivation. It's important to have motivation for your work. And sometimes you need to give other people some motivation in order to pay you. I must present a persuasive argument. But in the end, it often comes down to honesty.
This is a vague and confusing little post, I know. But the upshot of this is that I want to leave you with this: Be honest in your dealings with others. Have integrity in your professional conduct. Avoid people who have neither. And if you can't - and if you don't find out until afterwards, don't let them get away with it.
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Veg-Table is a small enterprise that sells large raised beds for growing vegetables - ala, a vegetable table. They needed a site that would help generate interest and allow for sale via the internet, and would also reflect a professional and yet friendly and "homegrown" kind of company.
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