2005–2015
Portfolio archive
Client work from 2005 onwards, most of it built in Guernsey. Plenty of these sites are long gone; the ones still standing are linked. Recent work is on its way.
2015
Kelvin Re – Holding page
This is just a simpe one-pager for reinsurance company Kelvin Re but with some nice responsive features and CSS animation when the page loads to give an otherwise fairly unexciting…
- holding page
2014
New Street Management Website
This is a nice clean and simple one-page design for a Guernsey Trust company, using the Foundation CSS framework and graphical elements from TwoDegreesNorth. The project well well…
- corporate
- foundation css
- mapbox
- responsive
No longer online
2011
Catherine Best Magento eCommerce Website
This Magento site had a really fast turn-around and I think everyone has been really pleased by the results. We are aiming for a high-end market and trying to make the most of the…
- ecommerce
- guernsey
- magento development
Loc8tor Multi-Region Multi-Language Magento eCommerce Website
This new site follows a design I was provided and is built using Magento and a number of specialist plugins. The core Magento functionality for different websites and stores was…
- magento development
Magento shop launched – AnythingSurf.co.uk
It’s been a while since this actually went live – but at last I can show off a few of the pages from the latest Magento eCommerce site I have built – AnythingSurf.co.uk.
- ecommerce
- javascript
- magento
- magento development
Five Star Payday Loans WordPress Site
This was a simple site based on a HTML home page, with a javascript calculator and a wordpress blog simply attached with the same design. The application form is a third-party…
- wordpress
2010
Barras Car Centre Website
The Barras Car Centre website required that they could upload details of new and used cars and display them, as well as provide a feed of the information for other third party…
- cars
- guernsey
- web development
No longer online
Carey’s Pipe & Tobacco Shop Magento/WordPress eCommerce Website
For this website the real key was enabling customers to engage via social media and to create a place where pipe smokers could discuss their hobby. Due in part to the way in which…
- ecommerce
- magento development
- social media
- wordpress
No longer online
Fairmoves – Guernsey Estate Agent Website
Fairmoves was a website for a startup estate agent in Guernsey, the project gave me the chance to write a Ruby on Rails application and involved a really slick integrated design.
- estate agent
- guernsey
- ruby on rails development
- scriptaculous
Find.gg Mobile Website
After having implemented the Cable & Wireless Guernsey telephone directory into the find website it seemed a really good idea to try to make this work for people’s mobile phones.…
- guernsey
- mobile
- telephone
think Freelance Design Website
This was a really quick HTML website that needed some integration with third-party systems to allow the site owner (a freelance designer I work with occasionally) to be able to…
- cms
- cushy
- cushycms
- emailmeform
- emf
- web development
- website development
Guernsey Telephone Directory for Find.gg
A brief meeting with Cable & Wireless Guernsey and we hit upon the idea of integrating a portion of the find website with their island wide telephone directory. The main complaint…
- directory
- find
- guernsey
- phonebook
- telephone
Le Petit Bistro Website
This project was to provide a simple to use wordpress site that conveyed the ambiance of Le Petit Bistro Guernsey to both customers and potential staff. The site was put together…
- wordpress
No longer online
Loans Aggregator for Guernsey
For this project we added the Prototype and Scriptaculous javascript libraries to find.gg in order to provide some sliders and AJAX functionality for a loans aggregator for the…
- ajax
- guernsey
- javascript
- prototype
- scriptaculous
Logo Designs for AlienEmpires
The game may have been around for a whille as lcog but now we have a new name – AlienEmpires, we really needed a new logo.
- alienempires
- branding
- design
- logos
- my games
- pbem
- planets
- strategy
- turn based
Martel Maides Guernsey Estate Agent Website
Building Martel Maides a new website was a fairly large undertaking and involved a website build, plenty of custom functionality as well as a complex integration project with their…
- estate agent
- integration
- rails
- ruby
- ruby on rails development
- website development
No longer online
Nerdexpress Business Cards
As a follow on from building the Nerdexpress website I was also asked to produce business cards. I think they turned out quite well, although it is a shame that working remotely I…
- design
Nerdexpress Twitter Background
As the Nerdexpress company started to work more and more with twitter, Facebook and other social media they felt they should try to push their brand out onto these platforms as…
- background
- design
Nerdexpress WordPress Website
For this job I inherited some branding and an initial homepage design but once I started talking with the client it became clear that the design was somewhat lacking for his needs.…
- design
- website development
- wordpress
Quantum Med Marine Website
This website build was a WordPress site built to a design put together by our in-house designer and included JavaScript fading images and pop-up windows for video, for which we…
- javascript
- php
- video
- wordpress
No longer online
Z-Trade Direct Pricing Matrix Component
For this small project I built a mysql database and PHP and AJAX front-end that enabled clients to get quotes directly from the website. The AJAX allowed you to select various…
- ajax
- iframe
- mysql
- php
No longer online
2009
Find.gg A Comparison Website for Guernsey
Find was a joint venture between myself and two collegues that intends to satisfy a niche in the Guernsey market. Many websites exist throughout the UK that offer used cars, estate…
- find
- guernsey
- rails
- ruby
- ruby on rails development
Google maps Mashup for Property in Guernsey
This project was undertaken to add a new dimension to searching for and finding property in Guernsey. Sellers or estate agents are now able to position a marker on a google map to…
- api
- javascript
- map
- mashup
- property
Independent Risk Reporting Website
Independent Risk Reporting was a two-part project, firstly to create a simple informational homepage and contact for the client and secondly to create a risk reporting…
- html
- rss
- smarty
- website development
iQ Investment Questionnare Risk Reporting System
This project was to build an online system with various user roles for requesting, completing and reviewing risk reporting questionnaires. Ruby on Rails seemed the best framework…
- ajax
- rails
- ruby
- ruby on rails development
- system
Z-Card Mobile Website
I recently built a version of the Z-Card website designed for people arriving to the site on a mobile phone or other small screen interface. The basic look and feel was handed over…
- mobile
- php
- smarty
No longer online
2008
Debtbuster Loans Optimized PPC Landing Page
This design hopes to split the sales messages off onto a front page and then concentrate more on support and reassurance messages on subsequent pages. This design went live in Feb…
- asp.net
- central trust
- design
- landing pages
- my portfolio
- optimization
- ppc
- web
Debtbuster Loans Optimized Single Page PPC App
This application was the technically most advanced that I built for Central Trust and involved AJAX validation and postcode lookups as well as front-end only Javascript for…
- ajax
- asp.net
- central trust
- design
- landing pages
- my portfolio
- optimization
- web
Development of a logo for briefus.com
It is times like this which I had an expert typographer at hand.
- branding
- design
- logos
- web
No longer online
Savings Calculator – Landing Page Optimization
Here I descibe in detail my approach to taking a working control landing page and turning it into something all together more effective. My landing page optimization process, fully…
- central trust
- design
- landing pages
- my portfolio
- optimization
- ppc
- web
2007
BriefUs Briefing System
As the companies creative team (web and traditional) grew, we required a system for managing our briefing system. I designed and wrote briefus to meet this need. All members of our…
- design
- my portfolio
- ruby
- ruby on rails development
- web
- website development
No longer online
Central Capital Mortgages
The Central Capital Mortgages site has been running for a number of years with limited profitability. My redesign has made huge improvements and at present other marketing…
- asp.net
- central trust
- design
- landing pages
- my portfolio
- optimization
- ppc
- web
- website development
Debtbuster Loans AJAX PPC Landing Page
In Sept 2007 I designed a new landing page and added a number of enhancements to the application form. Primarily these were client-side enhancements based on usability. The design…
- ajax
- asp.net
- central trust
- design
- javascript
- landing pages
- my portfolio
- ppc
- prototype
- web
Debtbuster Loans Website
Until this release very little effort had been made to increase the sites visibility in natural search engines. This version of the site was used on all none landing pages and was…
- asp.net
- central trust
- design
- my portfolio
- seo
- web
No longer online
2006
Central Capital Commercial Website
This was a relatively new brand for the company and had been untested on the web. This was entirely my project from a creative perspective and I managed the relationship with the…
- asp.net
- branding
- central trust
- design
- my portfolio
- web
- website development
Central Capital Website
This is the Central Capital loans and mortgages site, mainly used for marketing to customers. It links through to the centralcapitalloans.com and centralcapitalmortgages.com sites.…
- asp.net
- central trust
- design
- my portfolio
- web
- website development
Loans4Tenants Website
I designed the loans4tenants site and created the logo, although there was a colour scheme change before we went live. I build the site myself, including the application form,…
- asp.net
- central trust
- design
- my portfolio
- web
- website development
No longer online
Platinum Loans Website
Platinum Loans was a new brand created in order to offer an individually chosen loan plan with a low rate so that we could advertise a low APR. Compliance required that we check…
- asp.net
- central trust
- my portfolio
- web
- website development
2005
Guernsey Electricity Website
The Guernsey Electricity site combines a professional corporate look with a highly accessible structure. I have tried to emphasise the most used areas of the site (primarily the…
- asp
- design
- guernsey
- guernsey electricity
- my portfolio
- web
- website development