Caribbean Unpackaged is a hotel and villa rental company that lets properties in the Caribbean, who came to Active Webdezign looking for a revamp and a rebuild of their current site. My role here was the build of the new main site's back-end, and design and build of the admin. This included creating a complex search system where the user could find villas based on date, price, activities available, number of rooms, among other criteria. The user could also ...

During my time at Active Webdezign, my knowledge of the intracies of the Wordpress system meant that using Wordpress as a simple CMS was commonplace, which meant the coding/implementation mainly fell on my shoulders. The basic process was I was handed a sitemap and a CSS/XHTML template of the design, and then built the site, including structure, templatesm a custom contact form plus skinning and editing the administration section. The reason I haven't decided to split ...

WhySearch are an SEO company, who needed a simple, accessible extranet to allow the management and clients to view leads and calculate commission. The site was built using Object-Orientated PHP (my first attempt at this style of programming) and a MySQL database. The system allowed the administrator to create clients and leads, and each client gets an individual login to view only their leads.

Note: My role here was programmer, so the design isn't by me. Visit the site So far, this was the most advanced CMS-style Wordpress I've produced at Active Webdezign. When it came to training, since the client was situated in Glasgow, Scotland, whereas I'm in London, training was done via e-mail and a manual produced by yours truly. The key advantage of this method is most of the manual can be re-used for future projects.

This is a special 'work': a selection of some graphic design pieces that I have produced over the years, commerical or personal.

Innovation Valley are a company, grouped with Middlesex Unniversity in London, that attempts to provide for and search for business ventures with innovative and new ideas. Whilst working at Active Webdezign, I was asked to come with a design, in Photoshop, of a template for four handouts, with tabs, that would be placed together in a folder. The design also had to correlate with the website design that AW was also doing, so effectively this was a team project. Once ...

Note: This site is no longer live, as the band is now defunct. I included this project mainly to display the first attempt at pure CSS design. (Created in 2005) Sylvester Meadow were a young rock band based in North London, who happened to be close friends of mine. They asked me to make a simple website, albeit with some special features, along the lines of a normal band website. Inadvertently, I also managed to create their logo and signature text, ...

After building a portfolio administration system in PHP for my employers Active Webdezign, the director came up witht he idea of creating on-the-fly presentations for potential clients. Each presentation contains a list of chosen portfolio entries in a slideshow, and a description of the presentation. Once created, each presentation has a unique ID, so the presentation is reusable.