Completed IPGL Website
23rd March, 2009
In between university work, I’ve made a website for IPGL Limited, based on the design for Matt Wreford’s personal website.
Finished Matt Wreford Site
12th September, 2008
I have completed the production and implementation of a new site design for Matt Wreford, which can now be viewed on the website at http://www.mattwreford.com/, with only a few significant changes to my initial idea.
I have based the site on WordPress, using it as a Content Management System allowing for the quick adding of portfolio entries and amendments.
Essentially the pages have been used for each section with their own templates, and posts can be categorised so that they will fall into each of the three portfolio sections and with a bit of PHP will display in the right portfolio page.
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Matt Wreford Site Design
31st August, 2008
Having received some images and instructions on content, I am quite pleased with the way the design is going. Here is a screenshot of the Home page, featuring simply his three rules:
It is still featuring the fluid two column layout where both sides expand and keep the content in the centre, and the tabbed menu holds itself at top right.
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Personal CV Website
28th June, 2008
I have started work on a new design for http://www.mattwreford.com/, the owner of which felt that his existing site wasn’t really up to scratch. Knowing only that the client likes very simple and minimal designs, here is a screenshot of my initial layout and general concept for the site.
It will be quite a simple structure of 5 pages (four plus a link to a CV download) as requested, tabbed, and with two main content columns that serve different purposes on each page. For the CSS aspect of this design I have experimented with fluid column widths on both sides, where the content is grouped clearly in two blocks but they centre and expand within their columns with the resizing of the page.
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Flash, Twitter and crossdomain.xml
22nd April, 2008
As part of the latest FRED website update, I’ve been asked to include a twitter feed integrated into the flash file itself. Not knowing much about twitter itself apart from the basics, like knowing I’d have to take data from a feed and have to make some actionscript that parses the XML, I started the necessary research to see what people had done before me.
It is fortunate then, that I stumbled across this post, Twitter Issues, which describes a scenario that is not unfamiliar to me. It also provides a solution which will ultimately save me time later on! Basically, since some major security updates in Flash quite a long while ago, it hasn’t been able to access data on any server different to the one it is hosted on without express permission from the other server in the form of a special file called crossdomain.xml. I had the same issue when developing the original FRED Roles database stored on one site and accessed via flash from the other. Now Twitter themselves could have solved the issue by simply using a * (star) in their file to allow access from anyone, but for whatever reason they chose not to.
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Cheers to the FRED chaps
4th March, 2008
A big thanks to the guys at FRED who took ‘we owe you a beer’ literally for the work I did updating their existing flash website and creating a mobile version.
Having been asked what my favourite beer was ‘for a survey’, to which the answer was Barcelona’s Estrella, I was sent 24 bottles! Needless to say I was pleasantly surprised.
Posted in General Stuff, Work Placement by Simon
FRED website
4th January, 2008
An opportunity to work on a flash based website came up shortly before christmas where the company previously named ‘Uncle Fred’ had rebranded themselves to simply FRED and wanted their site updated to reflect these changes. Their website can be found at http://www.fredstalent.com.
The updated version is currently being tested at http://www.srjm.co.uk/FRED/
Update: No longer being developed in the test location (Link redirects to this post).
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Freelance Project
9th August, 2007
Seems I have found a bit of a freelance job to do creating a page design for a website aimed at buyers and sellers of houses. Best get brainstorming on some designs and reading up on vector graphics!
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