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Portfolio:
Here is a showcase of some of my work. I have over 3
years continuous commercial experience working in web page design edinburgh. The projects I've worked on have ranged from
full-blown e-commerce solutions, highly successful webcam and
forum sites to small, friendly homepages for small businesses
and organisations, all being business focused website design. |
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disQworld
The premier blank media discussions on the net, disQworld has
only been established for a few months but is already rapidly
becoming the busiest and most respected website in it's field. |
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Powered by phpBB, a GPL source
of PHP bulletin board software, this site uses PHP
to connect to a MySQL database. Part of the creation of this
site involved setting up a new dedicated server running Apache
on Red Hat Linux.
As the webmaster I thus have experience of configuring Apache
and using MySQL through the command line and through
phpMyAdmin. |
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The
3 Sisters
The 3 Sisters is one of Edinburgh's most popular pubs. To compliment
their success as a thriving pub, nightclub, restaurant and hotel
they wanted a site that was cool, fun, groovy and sexy. Yeah
baby. |
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This site was created as part
of a MarketSpan
collaboration.
The site comprises elements of Flash, dHTML
and PHP. My role in it's development encompassed
putting together the initial design, coding up the templates
and rolling out the final site. |
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DVD
Recordable
The internet's premiere resource for recordable DVD hardware
reviews and news. DVD-Recordable's aim is to provide no-nonsense
articles, reports and guides on DVD recording, ripping, authoring
and backup, |
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Powered by phpBB, a GPL source
of PHP 'blog' software, this site uses PHP to connect
to a MySQL database. As with disQworld, part of the creation
of this site involved setting up a new dedicated server running
Apache on Red Hat Linux. |
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Property
Homefinder
PropertyHomefinder offer a service which searches hundreds of
homes on a daily basis to find properties tailored to the individual
needs of prospective home buyers and renters. |
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This is a small and simple dHTML
website.
To quote the website owner, "The website's looking great,
thank you for all the work you've done."
I marketed this website using serach engine submission techniques.
Please feel free to perform a search for "properties
in Edinburgh" in Google.com
and Yahoo.com.
On the site's launch the website was sitting in second place
in both listings. |
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01ne
01ne make top of the range blank media (CD's and DVD's). |
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Another relatively small and
simple site which uses some Flash and dHTML. |
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Kerrowdown
Mill
A tasteful conversion of old stone farm buildings has formed
6 comfortable cottages each enjoying the benefits of modern
facilities, yet retaining all their original character. These
cottages can be found in Drumnadrochit - not a million miles
from the Benleva
- see below. |
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Another small but effective
site. Again, the owners were 'very pleased' with the site. |
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Benleva
Hotel
The Benleva is a small and friendly hotel in Drumnadrochit on
Loch Ness. The hotel offers a range of comfortable en-suite
bedrooms including a family room and a four-poster double bedroom,
all with excellent views.
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Still one of my favourite sites,
the Benleva Hotel website was created using dHTML with some
PHP scripts connecting to two MySql databases to create a
photo gallery and guestbook.
Quotes from the guestbook:
"I LOVE THIS SITE." MUGU JOE, LAGOS, NAIJA.
"What a great site, greetings from Bali", Sarmi
(Bali - Indonesia).
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Silicon
Group
The Silicon Group specialise in providing computer-buying customers
with help at every stage of the PC buying and upgrading process.
Their dedicated team of technicians provide an excellent service,
both to owners of Silicon PCs and to ones that are bought elsewhere. |
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This site was developed using
Actinic Catalog to provide an easy to use
backend to a retail database. Actinic provide a set of templates
using Perl and dHTML to
connect a website to back-office applications like stock control,
monitoring and invoicing on an Access RDBMS.
The Silicon Group website also uses dHTML, a perl form to
email cgi and a java applet
to create a scrolling news ticker. |
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Whitelabel
Media
Whitelabel make the best quality value-for-money blank media
available. Products include cd-r and the new Generation 3 dvd-r. |
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This is a simple 2 page website
- one to show off the products and the other to contact the
company through. |
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Enet
Distribution
Enet are Scotland's largest distributors of digital media. They
offer you the best service in blank media distribution you will
ever find!!! |
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This website was created using
dHTML and a perl cgi form to email cgi and a java applet to
create a scrolling news ticker. |
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CamVista
25,000 unique visitors a day, coming from all around the world,
make Camvista one of britains most successful websites. People
are drawn to the many wonderful webcams on the site that are
presented in a busy but easy to use front end. |
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In a previous existence I was
the the webmaster for the commercial arm of Camvista as represented
by their flagship website camvista.com.
I am responsible for this site and that includes:
- maintaining the site in terms of design and structure
- developing new and sexy applications - mainly using PHP
combined with dHTML (JavaScript and CSS)
- developing more robust dynamic content through PHP and
our relational db in MYSQL
Since taking on this role traffic for the site has increased
from under 15,000 to over 25,000. See
stats screenshots. |
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iwant2b
iwant2b is a dream waiting to happen. The concept of the site
is to be a portal to the best websites there are for a given
area, eg the ten best websites for buying holidays are at iwant2btravelling.
Money has yet to materialise but the website is still there. |
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When I started working for iwant2b
(and when I left) I was the only programmer there. Apart from
some of the graphic design elements (which were created by
a genius Ukrainian called Slava Rode) I was soley in charge
of its technical implementation. I learned a lot on this project,
including:
- how to build quickly, effective and lean HTML pages in
Dreamweaver.
- how to create and edit graphic design elements in Photoshop
- the principles of online marketing, from metas to the
use of content and links to boost search engine ratings
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