I’ve just completed work on a new website for an artists friend of mine, Ed Slater. I designed my own PHP-based gallery component, which works really well. I used a lovely script from TopUp for the javascript pop-up images, but the gallery code I made creates its own thumbnails! Whoop whoop!
For the rest, Ed wanted a simple but stylish website, and I hope I’ve achieved that!
Ed Slater screenshot
Crown Gallery
www.crowngallery.net This is a website I have designed for a shop that my partner and I are opening in November 2010. It’s a Joomla based site, and the first time I’ve tried using the tableless design you get with the Beez template in Joomla.
Because I wanted to have the site looking pristine, I’ve also had to change some of the coding to get things running right. Putting my new PHP skills to the test!
Angels with Paws - Screenshot
I’ve just finished working on a new website for a client, www.angelswithpaws.co.uk. She had already designed a website using MS Publisher (poor lass, it must have taken ages!), and I took her basic design and implemented it in HTML and CSS. She is a very ‘girly’ lady, hence her liking for pink colours and flowers in the design. Read more
Atmospheres thumbnail
This is my first bit of paid work! Woo hoo. My mate Ray wanted me to design a website using some images he’d already paid to have made. I knocked him up this site; cosmicrayimages.thenorthernview.biz I was happy that I managed to design him something which used the images to good effect, but also kept the style he wanted. Anyway, Ray was happy, and that’s the most important thing.
I created a table-free CSS based design using Ray’s images, and emulated the style he had for his original site.
CMC thumbnail
Ok, so my first website that I designed was for Carlisle Mountaineering Club. It quickly outgrew it’s meagre roots, so I decided to get to grips with Joomla! to expand it. I’ve been ‘getting to grips’ with Joomla ever since, and that was two years ago. It’s a hugely entertaining and interesting piece of software. By now my site had morphed into a huge, bloated beast of a site, with so many add-ons and bits of software. It really needs a good spring clean, but that will have to wait. It still does its job, just not very elegantly. It’s been really useful in that I’ve managed to learn loads about using Joomla from it, and I’ve had lots of opportunities to get into the nuts and bolts of how it works, which has helped my design better sites.
Whilst I’ve developed it I’ve also had to get to grips with XAMPP (the server formerly known as LAMPP) for development and testing of sites on my own computer, and also delved into the murky world of site security, and how not to get hacked.
