I am a freelance web developer / programmer based in Brighton. My main services are:
- Web development in ColdFusion and PHP (articles)
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) As part of Web Positioning Centre
- Google Search Appliance and Mini integration (blog)
- XHTML/CSS builds of sites or conversions of existing sites
Availability:
I'm a new father and between that and existing client projects, I am very busy. If you would like
development work done, you're best trying the freelancers at my networking group, the Farm.
If you need website promotion, please get in touch via Web Positioning Centre, where my business partner David will reply to your message & I can get involved where needed.
Apologies if this seems a little convoluted, but I'd rather you went to the right place to get some help than waiting for me when I'm buried in either code or nappies.
Latest Client Work:
Quick Wordpress site for a friend who is following the new James Bond film Skyfall. (November 2011)
Small site for NO HAGGIS, a pressure group trying to prevent the building of an incinerator in the Hickstead and Goddards Green area of Sussex. (October 2011)
Update to the shop I wrote for Prescott & Mackay several years ago, adding the ability to buy products that support their Shoemaking, Bagmaking and many other courses. Built with PHP & MySQL. (September 2011)
Micro-site for training to gain an IPAF License for long-running client Facelift. (August 2011)
Rolling out of 'responsive design' version of existing client site Facelift Access Hire, the HTML/CSS were mainly by Danielle Huntrods of Angular Momentum, who are experts in making mobile apps and websites that work well on smartphones and normal computers. (August 2011)
Website for new recruitment-to-recruitment business ESP Partnership, to designs by Nick Carter. The site runs Perch CMS to allow for easy editing of content. (July 2011)
Site build for loft conversion company Highridge Lofts, from designs by Brian Harris. (June 2011)
Update of IT recruitment agency Skillsearch, based on the designs by Nick for partner company G2 Legal. (June 2011)
Helping Comic Book Resources improve their site search results by tweaking their Google Mini. (June 2011)
Large site update for recruitment firm G2 Legal. I implemented designs by Nick Carter in to HTML5, and re-wrote large amounts of the code powering the search and jobs by e-mail facilities, which is written in ColdFusion with MS SQL Server. I also created the theme for their new Blog, powered by Wordpress, and helped set up the Windows server to host the blog, including tweaking PHP settings. I also helped configure Wordpress to work with apps on the company iPads. (June 2011)
Rolled out a directory called 3D Articles for a client. (April 2011)
Site updates for Kidsaware, who make warning labels and storage items for children with allergies.
Quick re-brand for Flyford Fox. This was mainly a CSS job, rolling out new colours, logo and a name change for this Sussex recruitment company. Logo and colour choice by Debbie Orme
Small site for Streat & Westmeston Cricket Club, including a little CMS for the club to update their fixtures and add match reports to their games. Design work was handled by Debbie Orme, I did the conversion to HTML/CSS and various PHP work to allow the updates.
Various updates for Brighton hotel Cavalaire.
Site refresh for the University of Brighton. I converted new designs by Nigel Gordijk for the university's main site in to XHTML, whilst keeping as much of their original HTML and CSS as possible. I also helped their web team convert around 2000 static pages over to the new designs, using PHP scripting to change the HTML over to the new look where possible.
Site refresh for Facelift Access Hire. Based on designs by Tom Crew, I updated the look of this access platform company. The changes allowed us to bring in various updates to help the search engine optimisation of the site, as well as much needed updates to usability.
E-commerce store for publishing house Allison and Busby. I worked with Brighton web agency i-Zimbra to produce this online bookshop in PHP & MySQL. I programmed the bespoke online shop coupled to Protx as the payment gateway, while i-Zimbra integrated in a large WordPress-driven area to handle blogging and various content sections.
New web application for Kingswood Law. I built the web version of their StopWork Calculator, which shows when you will be able to retire. It was a PHP/MySQL project using YUI components for easy interactivity. The main site design is by Nigel Gordijk, the original calculator was by Rudy Poonwasie.
Latest Personal Projects:
News Magpie, a social tech news aggregator. Still very much in beta. Started: June 2010
GSA Developer, a blog for people administering and writing code for Google Search Appliance and Google Mini servers. Launched January 2006.
SpiderTest, a utility which tells you what is technically wrong with a web page from the perspective of a search engine spider. Version 2 launched on 22nd July 2005.
Latest Code & Articles:
Why CSS is good for your website (with David Rosam, Dec 2005)
PHP code for checking against contact form spam (Sept 2005)
Do search engines like your website? (with David Rosam, Apr 2005)
Checking Google Page Rank on a Mac (Sept 2004)