Portfolio
Listed below are projects I have worked on.
Projects
British Band Instrument Company
The British Band Instrument Company website was launched as an online brochure of instruments being sold to across the world, specifically in the Middle East. I added a translation feature, and made all the text editable so it could be translated into different languages. After some research, I placed the navigation on the right rather than the left because people in the Middle East read from right to left. I also added images onto the buttons (using the “sliding doors” technique) so that the user could visually distinguish the instruments. I used the sliding doors technique to speed up load time and ensured the site was usable on IE6 at a screen resolution of 800×600, as I anticipated that many users in this part of the world would not have fast Internet speeds or high-end technology.
The Portland Arms - St Albans Pub
The Portland Arms pub website was commisioned by the landlady to provide information to locals about events at the pub, as well as an up-to-date seasonal menu. The pub dog, Buster, updates his online blog (http://www.theportlandarmspub.co.uk/blog/bustersblog.html) with his perspective of life at the Portland Arms, with photos of the people, and other dogs, he meets.
The landlady takes photos using her iPhone of the food served in the kitchen and uploads them to the website via Flickr. She also takes photos at special events, and these are automatically posted to a slideshow on the site (http://www.theportlandarmspub.co.uk/gallery.php). Many locals didn’t know where the pub was, so I added a Google map which shows users where the pub is, and they can plan their route to the pub using this feature.
Britball Run - 1000 mile car tour event
Lemongrass - Thai takeaway in Hatfield
Proidiomas - business teaching English to Spanish clients
- CD cover
- Flash game
- website design
Learn-2-Drive - driving school based in Watford
- website design
- branding
Domino-Effect - Young Enterprise company
- website design
- branding
Yellow Submarine Crew - School Engineering Team
St Albans Girls School
- website design
St Albans Girls school is my secondary school. While I was studying there, I wrote to them asking whether they would consider a redesign of their website, which they agreed to. The old website was ‘not fit for purpose’ as one parent noted on the current website questionnaire feedback form which was sent to all parents. I started this project in October 2007, and it launched in Spring 2008.
Room for Improvement
Some of the aspects of the website that the Headmistress, Mrs Murrell, was eager to improve was the site’s accessibility (to comply with the disability act), usability (to make it intuitive for non-Internet-savvy users) and also the image that the site represented of the school. (At the end of the project, I produced an accessibility report and manual for the website editors).
Design
I presented the school governors with 20 different designs to choose from. Some might say this was perhaps too many, but the governors were not sure exactly how they wanted the website to look, so a range of rough ideas was, in this case, more ideal than a few.
Construction
In December, I started making the website on the CMS (content management system) Drupal.
The features include:
- a 360 degree panoramic view of the entrance (with hopefully more to follow)
- an interactive map of the building
- the photo in the header is randomly selected from a library of photos, showing different aspects of the school
- there is a search box to help the user find the content they need
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