Web design portfolio
Most recent and current sites
Time taken: 2 days
Notes: English in Toulouse is my own group for French and English speakers, with over 300 members. The site is designed to provide information about the group and its events to new and existing members and requires to be easy to use and highly visible in search engines.
Time taken Ongoing personal project since 2000
Notes: My personal travel journal is my learning base. I practice my skills on here and it currently sports the following features:
- French and English content (Please refer to theColophon for further information)
- Standard compliant
- Accessible
- Folding tree menu with 'breadcrumb' navigation
- Google search facility
Time taken: 1 week
Notes: Created with a wiki for easy content management
Time taken: 3 days
Site remade for small real estate development business, who build holiday houses in Senegal. Project finished and site no longer online.
Professional sites
Time taken: 3 days
Notes: E-commerce, modern look, easy to use, accessible.
- Other incomplete trial sites for the same customer
- OS Commerce
- PayPal
Time taken: 4 days
Notes: Redesign of an old page, added a photo gallery that is simple to edit, site must be easy to use and accessible.
Time taken: 2 days
Notes: Crown Entertainment was an event management company based on the Gold Coast, Australia. Owner now retired.
Time taken: 2 days
Notes: Piatto Verde wanted a simple Web site that reflected the homely
feel of the restaurant. This site was created free of charge for my favourite Italian restaurant in Edinburgh.
Notes: Helped fix the stylesheet, look and feel of this site for a friend.
Time taken: 3 days
Notes: My neighbour and I started up a Web design business together to offer clients Web sites with e-commerce and bulletin boards or forums in a content management system. I whipped this site up very quickly to start promoting in time at local trade fairs.
My own personal sites
Time taken: 3 days
Notes: Classic look, photo intensive, easy to use, accessible.
Time taken: 2 days
Notes: Bright look, easy to use, accessible, highly visible in search engines.
Notes: Under construction
Notes: Beginnings of a site for my brother.
Notes: Me playing around with stylesheets circa 2002.
Notes: An old design for my teaching Web site.
Notes: I created and maintain the blog for this writers' workshop for writers' in English who are based in Toulouse.
Early work (2001 —2004)
Time taken: 2 weeks (including report writing and study)
Notes: This was the examinable component of my university course, the Client-side of Web Application Development.
Time taken: 1 week
Notes: This was the examinable component of my university course, Web Basics: Design, Development and Management.
Time taken: 2 year contract
Notes: Working for the Scottish Prison Services on a part-time basis, I worked on the debugging and revamp of the International Roundtable for Correctional Excellence Web site for use by the 12 member correctional facilities across the world. The site was based on ColdFusion and I also ran an NT4 server which hosted it. I also designed pages for internal use. I also worked on the launch of the official SPS Web site, updating and correcting bugs as required.
Project completed: April, 2000
Time taken: 6 weeks
Notes: My very first Web site. This organisation approached me while I was temping at the Royal College of Nursing as a receptionist. I was just getting started in Web design at this point, but did what I could to get them started. The site is now developed by students at Queen Margaret University College.