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Drake Music Scotland
A Wordpress-based site for an Edinburgh-based charity.
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Built to a design by Ben Gracey, this site shows the full range of work that Drake do in teaching music to children and adults with disabilities. It uses the familiar and intuitive Wordpress CMS, combined with custom modules and an especial attention to accessibility.
Innovate FS
A Wordpress-powered site for a Scottish financial services firm.
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Designed from scratch with a light yet sober feel to reflect the sector in which Innovate operates, and incorporating a sprinkling of stock images and icons to add visual interest. Wordpress was used as the CMS, giving the client full control over content and structure, and allowing them to publish news stories from their occasional newsletters online.
Life of Pi
A site to promote the Life of Pi Readalong by Edinburgh publisher Canongate.
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Built using Wordpress to a design by Julie at IfLooksCouldKill. The site uses the full potential of Wordpress as a content management system, and integrates with Mailchimp, the web-based mailing list application.
West End Fair
Part of a larger rebranding, this site showcases exhibitors at a large craft and art fair in Edinburgh.
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The site was designed using a colour palette and banner to tie in with print produced as part of the rebranding. Built in PHP with a MySQL database to store the exhibitors' details, it is a fast, clean site using unobtrusive javascript and a contact form that incorporates anti-spam measures without resorting to inaccessible CAPTCHA images.
Yourpubcrawl
Build a profile and find your perfect pub crawl. Still under development.
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A PHP/MySQL-driven site which combines a user profile with data on pubs using a scoring algorithm. The results are then plotted on a Google map. The application was the result of a group project at Napier University. The group is continuing development towards commercial implementations.
Hand Up Media
Site for ethical contract publisher.
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A PHP XHTML Strict site with a slick and simple fixed-width layout.
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Unique Venues of Edinburgh
UVE is an umbrella organisation for Edinburgh venues. This site allows users to browse them, find ones that suit their needs and submit an enquiry.
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Content-managed site using the Sava/Mura ColdFusion CMS running on Railo 3.0 and the Resin webserver. The basic Sava/Mura install was heavily customised, and I added two main custom modules: the first allows users to add venues to a 'shopping basket' and 'check out' by sending enquiry emails to their chosen venues; the second adds a venue management function to the backend and uses the ModelGlue framework.
CCA
New site for Glasgow's cultural powerhouse, the Centre for Contemporary Arts
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Using IfLooksCouldKill's own CMS, the site is built in CFML and runs on Bluedragon on CentOS. ILCK's CMS allows modules to be added to extend functionality where required: for this project, I built a module for CCA's events, including a media library with Flash uploader, archive facility and front-end calendar.
KingdomFM
Major site for Fife's radio station, with live news and weather, blogs, social network, trading post and listen live facility.
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Content-managed site built in CFML/MySQL. Robotic XML feeds provide weather and traffic news. PHP blogs are incorporated into the overall ColdFusion architecture and an e-commerce facility is included.
Attic Lights
Site for new Glasgow band signed to Island Records.
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Content-managed site built in CFML/MySQL, with video, gallery, blogs and social networking features. Images use the prototype/lightbox method of display. News headlines are drawn from the site's own blog using RSS feeds.
IfLooksCouldKill
Portfolio site for Edinburgh design/web company.
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Static site built in CFML/MySQL, with a custom-built javascript portfolio which allows for graceful degradation in case the technology is unavailable.
Capital City Golf
Four golf clubs in Edinburgh market themselves together - this site shows them off and allows for booking enquiries.
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Static site built in CFML/MySQL, with a custom-built javascript portfolio which allows for graceful degradation in case the technology is unavailable.
Organise This
Manchester-based sustainable events company.
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Content-managed dynamic site built in CFML/MySQL.
Positive Impact
Site accompanying a series of events promoting sustainable event management.
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Static site built in CFML/MySQL.
