Hi everyone - in case you didn't know I am now working for AAA Websites (website launching soon). A bright and exciting new company who are extremely passionate about delivering First Class Web Design and Development with a one on one client service to match. Please contact me there for a chat...
Email: [kieron@aaawebsites.co.uk] | Phone: 07932 238784
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Commercial - www.goforsales.co.uk
W3C valid CSS and XHTML Delivered as a sales initiative by Managers of a huge catering firm. I wrote a bespoke content management system in PHP for this project - the hub of which is an image gallery manager. |
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Commercial - www.alvastonloftconversions.co.uk
W3C valid CSS and XHTML A succesful AAA Websites and Pebbles Design collboration. |
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Commercial - www.wholeu.co.uk
W3C valid CSS and XHTML Working alongside Pebbles Design Agency - this site for registered Homoepathic Practioner Sally Bryant of Whole U was a great success. |
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Full Time Employment - South Staffordshire Housing Association - Web Developer / Designer
W3C valid CSS and XHTML plus AAA compliance For a period of 1.5 years I was employed (full time) as Web Designer / Developer by South Staffordshire Housing Association. I worked alongside a systems developer to rebuid the Association website using ASP.NET, Visual Studio and SQL Server. Largely thanks to my knowledge of design principles - not only did we successfully deliver a solution to the business and users needs - we also acheived AAA Web Content Accessibility Compliance and W3C validated XHTML and CSS. The layout and navigation is completely CSS and fluid to accommodate dynamic content and varying screen resolutions. It was tested in all major browsers and completely functional with Javascript disabled. |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 3) - Multimedia Project 2 - Assignment 2
The Carp Anglers' Oracle - Project Review. My final year project review gave everything the brief had asked for and all the nescessary supporting information to show the effort that I had put in to clinching my first. A colleague of mine recently commented that an A16 grade for a final year Multimedia Project is practically unheard of! |
Assignment Grade: A16 Module Grade: A16 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 3) - Multimedia Project 2 - Assignment 1
The Carp Anglers' Oracle - DVD ROM. As part of my final year project I delivered the final multimedia artefact on DVD, along with a video (file) demonstration of the artefact. The program itself was quite satisfactory as proof of concept and principally very sound indeed. Just to disclaim - the example colour scheme and banner used in the GUI resembles that used by Angling Lines as I had them in mind as the kind of company to endorse such a product. |
Assignment Grade: A16 Module Grade: A16 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 3) - Distributed Multimedia - Assignment 2
This Assignment gave me the opportunity to develop the CD shop further by adding stacks of additional features such as search keyword hilighting, dynamic track listings and audio samples. Log In to the admin area by typing in 'admin' twice to see that CD selections are recorded and that the user subscription form actually works. This work is Bobby AAA and W3C Certified. |
Assignment Grade: A16 Module Grade: A16 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 3) - Distributed Multimedia - Assignment 1
A prototype Retail Web Site using ASP to deliver a searchable database of CDs with paged recordsets and selectable items. I am particularly proud of my use of CSS and Sever Includes files to achieve truly flexible and easy to manage content as well as the ease in which I took to programming in VB Script. |
Assignment Grade: A16 Module Grade: A16 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 2) - Dynamic Web Page Creation - Assignment 1
A steep introduction to Active Server Page Technology and VB Scripting left many students panic stricken, but I rose to the challenge and soon mastered data validation using regular expressions. Incorporating professional coding and interactive design practices to create a user form - I scored a maximum of A16, my third web site project to do so. |
Assignment Grade: A16 Module Grade: A16 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 1) - Web Authoring - Assignment 2
Create a web site for a firm that supplies goods and/or services for sale to the public / ..businesslike and visually attractive etc. This is a very similar design to the last one but for a business and with an interactive form. I explored an original idea my friend and I once had for a business. |
Assignment Grade: A16 Module Grade: A16 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 1) - Web Authoring - Assignment 1
Hand code a website designed to provide information about a non-political charity or voluntary society and its activities in a clear, accurate, businesslike and visually attractive way. Ecce Homo is a real charity for the impoverished in Romania. |
Assignment Grade: A16 Module Grade: A16 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 3) - Personal Portfolio - Assignment 2
I had intended to develop the database solution you are looking at now further for this project, but the submission was CD based so I had to turn this site around in just a few days to meet the deadline. I think the simple design and effort to meet W3C compliance may have helped clinched the A15. |
Assignment Grade: A15 Module Grade: A15 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 3) - Personal Portfolio - Assignment 1
A lot of thought went into my personal logo to ecompass my views on inclusive design by depicting a global user. It was tested at various stages and in many forms including business cards, CD covers, fav and desktop icons. It was also tested through various color filters to consider people with visual impairments. The evolutionary process was documented and presented in a bound folder. |
Assignment Grade: A15 Module Grade: A15 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 3) - XML and Web Meta Tag Language - Assignment 2
The Andalucian Villas Site was used to demonstrate XML values being retrieved and stored to a database every hour. This value is then used to calculate and display up to date currency conversions. An XML application using up to date weather information was also also successfully incorporated. |
Assignment Grade: A15 Module Grade: A15 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 3) - XML and Web Meta Tag Language - Assignment 1
This site shows an XML file with an external DTD being processed using JavaScript to bind data to html elements, an example of an RSS feed from the BBC web site being processed by an ASP script and an example of how XML files can be rendered for viewing directly in the browser using the standard known as Existensible Style sheet Language Transformations. |
Assignment Grade: A15 Module Grade: A15 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 2) - Dynamic Web Page Creation - Assignment 2
Another revelation has revealed a strength in my programming that not even I understand, even though the basics of yet another language 'Structured Query Language' was called for - I found myself quite easily programming my first database driven web pages using my own logic, and was gladly able to give advice to other members of the class. |
Assignment Grade: A15 Module Grade: A16 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 2) - Advanced Multimedia Authoring - Assignment 2
Develop an application of your own choice. My idea is one that I would love to develop in full one day using web and database technology - but this is a prototype multimedia anglers diary. I pushed the boundaries of my knowledge at the time to bring my program to a working application stage. |
Assignment Grade: A15 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 1) - Creative Strategies In Time Based and Interactive Media - Assignment 2
Story board for film / animation. You wake slowly in a room....your eyes focus on an object in the corner - you realize it's another person.. You have to have a look for a laugh - me pulling stupid faces and I get to deform Chez at the end of this spooky short horror scene |
Assignment Grade: A15 Module Grade: A15 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 1) - Creative Strategies In Time Based and Interactive Media - Assignment 1
Analyze your own identity and how it has been created. Construct a new identity differing in culture, gender and personality - illustrated essay exploring both perspectives. This essay was a hit with the faculty for its creative turn around of the brief and jaw dropping opinions. Don't click on the picture if you are squeamish. |
Assignment Grade: A15 Module Grade: A15 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 1) - Introduction to Multimedia Authoring - Assignment 2
Design a small interactive Language Learning Tool The file is too large to upload as designed for CD - virtual video player |
Assignment Grade: A15 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 1) - Digital Image Editing and Manipulation - Assignment 2
Interpreted Text - an image produced from the following verse; "Time present and time past are perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past - Time past and time future - What might have been and what has been - Point to one end which is always present" T. S. Elliot - Four Quartets |
Assignment Grade: A15 Module Grade: A15 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 1) - Digital Image Editing and Manipulation - Assignment 1
Layered photoshop document of assorted personal interests 'We like to think we are in control of our own lives but we are actually being controlled by external influence - we find freedom in our interests to escape an upside down world' - K.Axten |
Assignment Grade: A15 Module Grade: A15 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 3) - Multimedia Project 1 - Assignment 2
The Carp Anglers' Oracle - Building Prototypes and Testing. This is all documented in the final review - but the prototypes and authentic testing proved to be really valuable and quite an eye opener to me proffesionally. The first module was about planning and design - gant charts, mood boards, interaction charts and tutorials were all contributing factors for a good grade. |
Assignment Grade: A14 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 3) - Multimedia Project 1 - Assignment 1
The Carp Anglers' Oracle - Concept and Written Proposal. Surprisingly - this process was one of the most difficult times I experienced while at Uni! It was hard to find a compromise between what I wanted to do vocationally and personally - and what I thought my lecturer expected from me. But while my final year project was NOT web based - my concept shone in terms of emersiveness, interaction and use of multimedia elements. |
Assignment Grade: A14 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 3) - Research Essay
The Blind Leading The Blind - Responsibilities within the web site industry to design inclusively for elderly / impaired users. "Symptoms of aging may well be aggravated by the current state of the majority of web sites out there. It is no wonder that older people generally seem to struggle to adapt this wonderful, potentially empowering medium, when there is a very real barrier to entry so predominantly in place. Any learned helplessness is only fortified by the false causality continually imposed by the largely inaccessible World Wide Web." |
Assignment Grade: A14 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 3) - Multimedia Project Management - Assignment 2
To aid my project management I custom built a Team Blogg and Resource Center using ASP, it was a great success. ALL management files can be found on this site |
Assignment Grade: A14 Module Grade: A15 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 3) - Multimedia Project Management - Assignment 1
The Prototype Site produced by my team consisting of; Kieron Axten (Project Manager / Art director / Researcher) Jason Maiden (Visual Media Designer) John Tranter (Author/programmer) Matt Clarke (Time based media designer) |
Assignment Grade: A14 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 2) - Digital Media Production - Assignment 1
Prototype Production. Again, Jase and I got together and developed a prototype using the software set in the criteria - a rather limited Power point. The presentation went well as we had a strong group and we finally got the A we deserved, however it was too late for an overall A grade for the module. |
Assignment Grade: A14 Module Grade: B13 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 2) - Perception and Representation - Assignment 1
'The Principles of Good Design and its Application to the Web' 4500 words |
Assignment Grade: A14 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 2) - Animation For Multimedia - Assignment 2
A short animation drawn and animated with sound in Macromedia Flash, adhering to my designed character and planned production schedule. Erm, don't ask me how but my cartoon is about a one legged, wobbly eyed bouncy time traveler from Sarajevo who falls in love with himself after a sex change! |
Assignment Grade: A14 Module Grade: A15 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 2) - Animation For Multimedia - Assignment 1
Character Design, Sketches, Story boarding and Animatic. Drawing and basic animation techniques, Flash skills. |
Assignment Grade: A14 Module Grade: A15 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 2) - Design, Planning and Evaluation - Assignment 1
Essay on Learning preferences, group work, design process etc. My usual cynical and over analytical look at my own perceived abilities. |
Assignment Grade: A14 Module Grade: B12 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 2) - Advanced Web Authoring - Assignment 2
Online Interactive Art Gallery. I wanted to do something unusual to depict an art gallery representing interactivity, so I hand drew a Geiger style navigation and animated some of my own drawings with a science fiction twist. I have not yet done a pre loader for the Flash file, so you may need to wait a few minutes for the page to load properly. |
Assignment Grade: A14 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 2) - Advanced Web Authoring - Assignment 1
Java Script Tutorial Website Typical example of a stressful University brief - just when you think you are going to tune in and learn something: 'Good morning - This is Java Script - you have one month to do a web site that teaches it!' Pulled it off swimmingly though and boy did it make me learn fast! |
Assignment Grade: A14 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 2) - Design For Interaction - Assignment 2
Make Prototype + User Testing Plan More arduous work with some rather advanced programming in Lingo in order to create a Shockwave game in a sellable prototype format. A user tester plan had to be put into action, I chose to use a carefully designed working web form. - Sorry - the game is way too big for uploading. |
Assignment Grade: A14 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 2) - Design For Interaction - Assignment 1
Research / Story board Game Concept. This initial research and development had a huge workload, from identifying and analyzing target audiences through to design strategies and story boarding techniques. The idea for my game was quite staggering - 'A Journey to the Inner Self' with a motto of 'Instead of losing yourself in a game - why not find yourself!' |
Assignment Grade: A14 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 1) - Introduction to Digital Sound - Assignment 2
Create a "sound environment" to conceptualize the interview edited in element 1. I used 100% original recordings to recreate landing on Gold Beach on D Day. |
Assignment Grade: A14 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 1) - Multimedia Authoring - Assignment 2
Design an interactive recipe book. More programming - trust me to do a bait recipe book! |
Assignment Grade: A14 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 3) - Negotiated Study - Consultants Report - 15000 words
An incredible amount of work went into this Consultants Report for Sodexho's Club Joules web site and proved to be a valuable learning tool. |
Assignment Grade: B13 Module Grade: B13 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 2) - Perception and Representation - Assignment 2
Design Implementation. Almost working MP3 player for Personal Digital Accessory. Designed using established principle theories and programmed using Macromedia Lingo. The work load was vast with the inclusion of a user testing plan and written report as well as fast design and programming. The module was based on the influential book called 'The Design of Everyday Things. |
Assignment Grade: B13 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 1) - Introduction to Digital Sound- Assignment 1
Using mini disc recorders and Cool Edit Pro. Construct an audio program / presentation based on the recording of unscripted and undirected interview. I interviewed a WW11 veteran. Click here for the 11/2 hour Word transcript - For the finished 3 minutes of audio see Part 2 |
Assignment Grade: B13 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 1) - Introduction to Multimedia Authoring - Assignment 1
Interactive CV authored using Macromedia Director |
Assignment Grade: B13 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 1) - Digital Technologies - Assignment 1
Written Exam 1 - 69% - A14, Written Exam 2 - ??% - B12. Scored top of the class, general questions on IT and communications including binary and hexadecimal conversions and equations. |
Assignment Grade: B13 Module Grade: B13 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 1) - Digital Technologies - Assignment 2
IT knowledge and communication skills to the test, I chose to talk about Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI). The sounds are missing due to large file size. |
Assignment Grade: B13 Module Grade: B13 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 1) - Language Communication and Cognition - Assignment 2
An Argumentative Essay. We are told one way and another to both 'be yourself' and to 'learn to get on with others'. Is there a contradiction here between individualism and 'group ness'? My style of writing is often too deep and personal, but some great arguments and ideas for the individual thinker are spelled out here. |
Assignment Grade: B13 Module Grade: B13 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 1) - Language Communication and Cognition - Assignment 1
An introduction to communication processes. The sounds are missing due to large file size |
Assignment Grade: B13 Module Grade: B13 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 2) - Digital Media Production - Assignment 1
Written Proposal / Group work - collating research from the group Jason and I worked all night for several days to write a very professional proposal for an information system to be installed in the University. We were determined to get the contract as it would be great to see our work out there - but we felt the proposal deserved an A and we were immediately disheartened. |
Assignment Grade: B12 Module Grade: B13 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 2) - Advanced Multimedia Authoring - Assignment 1
Design Interactive Video Shop Using Lingo's 'Movie in a Window' programming technique that allows applications to communicate with each other. Mine was based on a pirate theme, but time ran out before I could fully code the booking system. A strength of the design lay in the additional use of MIAW for a virtual remote control. |
Assignment Grade: B12 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 1) - Multimedia Authoring - Assignment 1
Design a simple multiple question test. My first real attempt at programming in Lingo was a 'Training Evaluation Program for Sodexho Food Service Assistants' |
Assignment Grade: B12 Module Grade: A14 |
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Wolverhampton Uni (Year 2) - Design, Planning and Evaluation - Assignment 2
Group Work - Design and Present and Artifact from the letters RSTU. Being graded on a team effort I tried hard to help the group communicate by providing an online resource center, but the whole thing was lost on the poor attendance and effort of several members. If it was not for group grading - I would have had all straight A's in my second year! Miserable C10 |
Assignment Grade: C10 Module Grade: B12 |
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Commercial - NBP Design Concept for IwebTech
TW3C valid CSS and XHTML his is a concept I did for a web technologies company. The XHTML and CSS is to W3C standard. |
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Personal Intereset - A page celebrating my graduation
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Favour for a relative - Care For My Pets
A business venture in the pipeline for my sister. |
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Work Tasks and Personal Interest - Digital Video Editing
At work I have had to edit hours of video footage for corporate away days using Adobe Premiere and Pinnacle Studio. I have also used this software to produce clips for Multimedia programs and prepare home videos of holidays, parties etc. I have some knowledge on compression techniques and formats for various publishing needs such as Web , CD and DVD. |
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Personal Interest - Music Production, Editing and Recording
I guess my interest in computers began in the 80's along with synth pop as I was fascinated with music technology. As home computing evolved I owned them all from the ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and eventually a PC and a whole array of synthesizers, samplers and drum machines along the way. Whilst I soon got to grips with the technical aspect - I also realised that I would never make me a living from music and turned to other forms of creative computing. However my interest in music and sound design remains and holds a valid area of experience in my current vocation. Here are some samples of my music in MP3 format;
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Angling Lines Website - Published Fishing Artices and Reviews
I like writing about fishing and take pride in myself as a thinking angler. The following articles amongst others were once published on the Angling Lines Magazine Website;
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Commercial - CD ROM Authoring For PM Marketing and Brake Brothers
Working alongside graphic designers Pebbles from Lichfield, I programmed an interactive CD ROM using Macromedia Director for PM Marketing. The client was frozen food company Brake Brothers. 2000 copies were distributed to Brake Brothers customers. |
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Commercial - Euphoria Hydroponics - Summer Work 2004
A database driven web site for a company in Stoke On Trent selling hydroponics equipment. A lot of the products needed original photography and image manipulation. There are plans to add a shopping cart in the near future. |
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Commercial - Web Authoring For PM Marketing
Over the last four years, I have maintained the trust of corporate marketing company PM Marketing and longside graphic designers Pebbles from Lichfield have ensured a web presence to meet the requirements of the client and web industry standards. The children's school meal site for the worlds largest catering company Sodexho is now on it's third edition. |
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Commercial - Andalucian Villas Ltd Version 2
This new version of the site boasts a myriad of ASP features including a searchable database, random content, RSS currency and weather feeds, dynamic enquiry form with input validation and client administeration. There is also a proposal for a shopping cart style system for remembering users favorite properties. |
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Stafford Art College - Andalucian Villas Ltd Version 1
I attended Stafford Art College for an evening course in Web Design and Management and produced the foundation for www.andalucianvillasltd.com. This version is graphically poor and is long overdue a rebuild, but has served its purpose and helped local company Andalucian Villas Ltd grow. |
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Stafford Art College - www.axtens.com Family Website
I attended Stafford Art College for an evening course in Web Design and Management and produced a foundation for 'The News Axten' - a web site devoted to all family matters and events, photos, chat, stories, etc. Very popular with my large family scattered across the country. |
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Stafford Art College - Easy Alphabet Learning Tool
I attended Stafford Art College for an evening course in Web Design and Management. I produced this great fun animated A to Z using Macromedia Flash. |
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