I’ve been looking a lot at the use of colours in physical objects recently. Often you’re asked to work on a site where the brand colours are some hideous combination of yellow and blue or red and green, and you’re expected to make those colours work well together.
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Chessbrook is the second school I have worked with.  It was a really great project to work on because it was quite challenging.  The school is an education centre for students who have not been able to cope in mainstream education.

I really like what Chessbrook are doing, and they were perfect clients to work with.  At the end of the project, I did usability testing with the students to get their feedback on the website.

While attending a Business Link course on starting up, I met Nicola Dolan, a lady who was setting up her own company that offered IT Training courses.  I worked with Nicola to design the branding for her company, and also designed and developed her website.  I had fun building a nice jQuery accordion menu for the course outlines page.

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.

I built the Britball Run website while working at Kempt.  It’s a car tour event held in the UK that raises money for various charities.  I found it quite a challenge because I don’t know much about cars, but it was a fun project nonetheless.