My portfolio

A small selection of recent and or favourite sites.

Heathlands Community Pre-School

My most recent creation, a site that needed not just picture galleries but also audio and document upload and linking facilities. As well as some specially-written software to build and amend the staff page.

Cycle Speedway History

(visit Cycle Speedway History site)

An interesting challenge as it needed a lot of bespoke software to allow the site-owner to add many cycle speedway teams and if necessary, rename them or allocate them to different counties. And all teams and counties needed to be added to the large navigation menu which I think works really well as a multi-level accordion.

This site proved nicely how easy my maintenance system is to use; the septuagenarian owner, who doesn't use computers much, has been happily typing away and creating thousands of pages.

Beermad

(visit Beermad site)

On the Internet since 1999, my long-standing hobby site has gone through several phases of redevelopment as I've learned more and more about design techniques (and is probably due another rewrite soon). A very complex database with extensive search and display options on the site and the added interesting challenge of having three copies of the database (on the Website, my desktop and my smartphone), all of which need to be kept synchronised.

The Suffolk Real Ale Guide

(visit Suffolk Real Ale Guide site)

In 2006, a fellow Camra member approached me with a request to advise and help him in setting up a simple database to hold all the data he was collecting about current and historical pubs in Suffolk. One thing led to another and as I had a lot of time on my hands, having recently taken voluntary redundancy, I ended up not just designing a database but also building a Website and spending many hours cycling round the Suffolk countryside photographing the pubs.

This is a large database-driven Website, with virtually every page generated dynamically from information in the database. It also features some very nice interactive maps showing the location of every identified current or historical pub. And GPS users can even download a POI file to plot the pubs on their SatNavs.

The Ipswich Fat Cat

(visit Ipswich Fat Cat site)

It was a particular pleasure to be asked to design this site, as it's for a pub I've been using for fifteen years - and when they emailed the Web Brewer, they didn't even realise it was me!