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Portfolio section just added

It’s taken me ages to get round to doing this and I haven’t managed to include every site I’ve done over the last three years, but a small selection have finally made it onto the obligatory Portfolio section of the site.

Anyone who knows me personally should take a look, if you will, and hark back to the days when the Clyde One site had actually had some design values! Then saunter down memory lane to the infamous site-in-four-days that was the SRH corporate homepage.

Wow – you wouldn’t think I’d worked to ten o’clock four nights in a row to complete that one in record time, would you!?

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0 X Tables

It had to happen – I’ve had a bit of a mission to do a site without frames or tables since the beginning of April and I finally got around to it last night.

So apologies are in order if you’re viewing this on a 28 inch monitor, as the text will be most of the way across your screen!

Anyhow, it does seem to make the page load faster which is what it’s all about at the end of the day. That and standards compliance. Thanks to A List Apart and Glish for some good css resources.

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Vision for BSkyB

Sky VisionThis monthly intranet magazine site is one of the most fun projects I have ever worked on. With the client being a lively, positive company with strong branding principles it carries great satisfaction to hand a site to them every month that is technically accurate and on-brand.

There was no initial remit for the design, other than to keep to the branding rules. Hence I contacted the IT department of the client to find out details such as target browser and screen resolution before creating a pitch that was very well received.

I had the idea of changing the banner and navigation background graphics every month in order to make the site appear even more fresh when new content was added and to make each issue stand out individually.

The navigation menu is a DHTML outline list that allows the users to open up a section and navigate down the tree of content. They can choose to hide or show the content in order to focus on one or more sections and this system has proved very popular with users.

I use Macromedia Fireworks for the creation of background graphics and styling of content graphics for branding purposes. Everything else I hand code in HTML and use CSS to position box-outs and pictures, as well as maintain the site-wide consistancy required by the corporate brand.

Updated : In Q1 2002 this intranet site won an award for its design & structure. Cool!

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