Here are my freelance projects:
Cloud9Craft are a slate engraving company in Meliden, Rhyl.
The site utilises the Paypal Ecart and a proof creator, along with a secure admin backend. I used prominent colours, such as deep reds and blues, alongside pale greys, to provide a rather opulent look.
If All Else Fails is the musical portfolio I built for my sister Sarah. It showcases her musical talent, and there is also a gallery where she can add pictures.
Sarah wanted something "different" and a creative look and feel, for her website, so I came up with a design that looks more like an album cover, than a website. The logo and the blue tinted photograph (which is of a local beauty spot) are quite psychedelic, so I balanced them, by adding a background of the nights sky.
The copy for this website is still being updated, so I've taken the link down for now.
Kids & Creatures are an organisation specialising in auctioning items on Ebay for children and animal charities.
The look is very angular, with thick horizontal stripes to divide the page up, so the content is presented in an easy-to-read fashion and a centre aligned main container, without an all round border, as the edge of the text does this job. The client's branding colour was a very vivid green, so I matched this with a pastel purple, which I felt was a good contrast. On the whole, the website has a very bold, sunny look.
Pummell Family History is a family tree website made with the CakePHP framework. I tried the generic tree-like layout for the family tree but it didn't look right so the client decided to go with a tabular layout, which is a lot easier to browse!
Each page has a stock image of a room from a house as its background, as the client wanted the website to feel like the interior of a house. The images have various adjustment layers, blends and filters applied to them to give them an unusual look.
The pagination uses jQuery Live, which enables smooth paging without reloading the page.
Ropeworks specialise in high adventure ropes courses and are located in Porthmadog and Hafan y Mr Holiday Park, near Pwllheli.
The client specifically wanted the site to resemble their brochure, with an image of a handglider on the far left and a second image on the far right, framing the main content. Their colours are bright blue and yellow, so I worked these into the website.