Portfolio
I’ve been a web developer for around ten years, during which time I’ve had two web development books published and become a long-standing beta tester for Adobe. As a full–on geek, I’m passionate about web standards to the point that I lose sleep agonising over markup. Despite that, I also have a life and spend my spare time going to gigs, taking photos and cooking vegetarian meals, as my Flickr account will confirm.
To date, my career can be divided up into the following chunks:
The Eye Fund
Web Developer: Stockton-on-Tees, England
Writing and maintaining standards-compliant HTML/CSS; integrating and skinning WordPress into a custom-built PHP/MySQL site
Skills used: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP/MySQL, and copywriting
Linkage: http://eyefund.info/
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Trig.com (Adocca Entertainment AB)
Web Developer: Stockholm, Sweden
My time there was spent mainly as a front-end developer, writing and maintaining standards-compliant HTML/CSS, but also included copywriting (I wrote the FAQ, Help, and Using Trig pages), public relations, and marketing. This involved anything from being the official press release voice of Trig, through to liaising closely with bands such as Lostprophets and Funeral For A Friend to help give them the look they need and fine tune the site to musicians needs.
Linkage used: HTML, CSS, Ruby on Rails, Photoshop/Fireworks, and copywriting
Links: http://trig.com/lostprophets, http://trig.com/funeralforafriend, http://trig.com/using_trig
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Conker Media @ Mersey TV
Web Developer: Liverpool, England
Writing and maintaining standards-compliant HTML/CSS and creating graphics, Flash games and TV adverts for the following sites: Hollyoaks, Grange Hill, Channel 4, Mersey TV
Skills used: HTML, CSS, Photoshop/Fireworks, Flash, JavaScript.
Linkage: Due to the constantly changing nature of these sites, none of my work is online these days.
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Friends of ED
Author and Technical Reviewer: Liverpool, England
I’ve had two books published by Friends of ED, but as Technical reviewer, I reviewed drafts of books and web pages, suggesting amendments where necessary.
- Author of Foundation Mac OS X Web Development.
- Co-author and concept behind Blog Design Solutions.
- Technical reviewer of Foundation ColdFusion for Flash and Foundation Dreamweaver MX.
Skills used: HTML, CSS, ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop/Fireworks, and a touch of copywriting.
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Freelance
Web Developer: Liverpool, England
Musicians I’ve done work for in the last ten years: Rico, Radiator, Therapy?, Andy Rourke (ex-Smiths), Kant, Leon, Miriam Lamen, Alexandra Scott, Red Delicious, Lunarclick.
Linkage: None of this work is online these days, due to bands breaking up and/or moving on.
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Twittering
Hosting & Building
I use a combination of the following to build this site: