Portfolio
Working with (or near) the internet, people will assume that you’re a web designer. No point protesting, babbling about “SoA” this, “sever-side” that, or “I don’t know Photoshop”. Sometimes it can be fun to just give it a go, I mean how hard can it be?
Aqualung - aqualung.net
2002 - 2006. Official band site. HTML , PHP, Movable Type
Having just survived a third redesign (to accompany the third album) the site still runs hapily on a combination of Movable Type, ZenCart, PhpBB and some handmade PHP. The orginal ‘look no tables’ CSS layout in 2002 sparked an interest in CSS web standards and accessibility which has been reflected in agency-choice for MTV projects and our internal development standards.
Carson Workshops - carsonworkshops.com
2006. E-commerce integration, DOM scripting, PHP, XHTML and CSS
This project needed registration pages that would be quick and easy to use. As the company also runs expert HTML master classes every detail had to be just right. Technologies included script.aculo.us for AJAX context-specific form elements, Geo-IP country detection, Smarty templating and PHPMailer for emailing.
Princess Perfect - princessperfect.com
2005. Luxury costume jewellery. Zen Cart, PHP, Flash, XML / ReST
After Tamara left Diesel’s press office to build her own PR firm she wanted to take a range of elegant costume jewellery online. We took care to strip away the usual clutter of an online store and focus on the photography.
David Shrigley
1998-2003. Artist site. PHP, design, editorial
This guide to artist David Shrigley. used the recently launched Blogger for content management and Amazon Associates for a small ad programme. Retired in 2003 after David launched his own site.
iBlog.com
1997-2003. Personal site. Design, PHP
I had some kind of home page from 1997 to 2003, I wrote mostly while living in Sydney about the 2000 olympics, curiosities I’d found trawling the web and strange jellyfish found on Manly beach. The site is now home to a commercial multilingual blogging service.
RUTH.co.uk
1995-1998. Official site for British indie-pop band. Design, editorial
Proudly launching at it’s own domain name in 1996 after a short while as 100624.46 at CompuServe, this was my playground for learning HTML and an extended editorial forum for Ben - including the renowned official magazine ALAN and some experimental short stories!. Various versions still survive in the cryogenic chamber that is archive.org