Portfolio

  • SoleTrader Mobile

    Doing the Mobile Site for SoleTrader was my first solo build whilst working at Snow Valley, and was a real chance for me to proove myself. I did all of the front-end development work on the site, from scratch, by myself. I got to take advantage of all the advances of CSS3 and a lot of the webkit extras as most smartphone browsers are now webkit based.

    I feel the project as a whole went very well. I completed the work comfortably on time, and the client was very pleased. During UAT (User Aceptance Testing) only a couple of very minor issues surfaced, and these being swiftly fixed allowed the site to go live on time.

    This, I hope, will be the first of many similar projects I can add to my portfolio. Working with big clients, companies people will recognise and be impressed by.

  • ei8htyei8ht.com

    This is my first notable commission. I was approached by the reputable online poker played, and PokerStars affiliate, ei8hty ei8ht to Design and Create him a new website to replace his then current blogger site.

    It was very important for me when working on the site too keep in mind that he wanted to be able to edit, add and re-style content with little-to-no programming use on his part. I made sure and kept this in mind when designing how content is stored and how easy it is to access, keeping minimal coding in the content itself and letting the framework do the hard work.

  • MSCycleBlog

    This is a concept I have been working on for a while. Mountain Biking is a real passion of mine, and I wanted to document it, share my experiences. Initially I made this website to just be a blog and nothing more, but then I realised it could be so much more than that. I am currently expanding its potential to include Blogs, Videos, Photography, Reviews and even Training Sessions.

    I now also have the scope for collaboration. I have approached a few people; cyclists, journalism students, amateur photographers; who can both give to and gain from this, with the recognition, to make this site the best it can be.

  • HelpBuntu

    This was the first website I made of any real significance. I came up with the concept around 2007 when I discovered there wasn't any real documentation on how to install Ubuntu on older machine (which I was doing at the time). I then found there were a lot of seemingly simple things that weren't documented well on the internet. I decided to make a website specifically giving good solid help to those that needed it, from those that had only just considered installing right up to those who've been using it for years.

    I have redeveloped the website several times as my skills progressed, however I am currently in the process of doing a complete re-work. My progress can be viewed here.

  • MStrutt Digital

    While I was at Sixth Form I studied, and took a keen interest in, photography. The main aspect that I pursued was the digital media side as it combined well with my passion for the world wide web. I made this site as a simple but powerful tool for displaying my work with ease. I initially created the photography site below which brings together all aspects of my photography. I thought that this was the natural progression of that, but at the same time strong enough to stand as an entity on its own.

  • MStrutt Photography

    When I was designing this website at the start of my A-Levels my main challenge was working out a way to load lots of rich content - like large, quality images - over the relatively slow connections of the time. The solution I came up with was to use frames. The Menu, once loaded would never have to be loaded again and only the content of the page would then change.

    Following that, when a gallery was opened the strip of thumbnails at the bottom would only load once. Then when each new image was selected to be viewed at large, it would only be that image being the newest thing loaded. I feel the solution I achieve, while now outdated, was both simple and elegant for it's time. I keep it as a reminder. This was also where I had my first real experience in programming in javascript creating the Pinhole Exposure Calculator.