Technical Digital Media Consultant
Portfolio
Affiliate Marketing Experiments
These websites consist of various affiliate marketing experiments which aim to be useful websites in their own right, as well as money-spinners i.e. they are not intended to be spam sites as a lot of heavy affiliate marketing sites are.
A website selling my own scripts and plug-ins for CMS's such as WordPress (as well as those of others that I recommended) to affiliate marketeers.
A website geared towards people who wish to buy cheap decorations for christmas. It pulls data from E bay, Amazon and elsewhere to form a comprehensive catalogue of products, and is an experiment in localised sub domains on a general theme (wedding. and easter. also exist)
A website geared towards people who wish to buy cheap decorations for all occasions online. It pulls data from E bay, Amazon and elsewhere to form a comprehensive catalogue of products.
This is an attempt to build a community around cosmetics and to determine which, if any, really work. With so many ads all spouting the same nonsense, the aim here is for real people to relay their experiences and what works for them.
A blog about how to effectively buy and manage domains and web hosting closely aligned with domain-safe.net
An experiment in trying to generate the worlds largest single collection of T-Shirts and provide links through to purchase for anyone who's interested.
A low-budget commercial website making use of Amazon's Associates API to list the inventory of the Sister Ray record store (which is pushed to Amazon via the high street store's inventory management system) and generate an affiliate commission on any sales made as a result of website clicks to Amazon, as a way of funding the site's development.
A website selling used cars, parts and manuals as an Amazon and E bay affiliate
Personal Projects
These websites have been set-up as a bit of fun in my spare time, they're not intended to be financially rewarding or examples of my best work but are here for completeness.
An auto-generated blog collating the posts of my various co-workers over the years
A website outlining my services as a freelance IT support technician (a job which supplementary income whilst I was a student)
My personal website that rarely gets updated nowadays - the most useful post on it seems to be the cooking instructions for items bought from Sainsbury's deli counter!
This is my personal website discussing PHP, MySQL web development, Linux server administration and anything else techy I find fun or interesting.
A website about the forthcoming Google TV service, based on Android
A fledgling business providing IT support to business and home clients in and around Brighton and Hove
A website I started putting together when trying to teach my girlfriend to code PHP from scratch. Time has not allowed much active development however it has had a large number of subscribers to date.
This is a collection of the (admittedly funny) rubbish I'm sent almost on a daily basis during lunchtime. The very lofty aim is to take the content out of email circulation generally and/or provide access to it to people who would otherwise not be able to see it in their office mail.
A fansite for people who enjoy and take part in the annual McDonald's Monopoly promotions in the UK and USA
A website selling my services as a server administrator building secure and stable hosting solutions based in the Amazon Cloud and on dedicated machines.
Closely aligned to domain-safe.net this my website selling SSL certificates
My web design and development company. This site is the 'organisational' view of myself and a collective of talented designers, project managers and producers who come together to work together on key projects.
SaaS
I love the technical part of my job and this is reflected in my software as a service websites. These sites deliver (generally technical) services to non or semi-technical users.
Protecting domain names from expiry is now a breeze - my online tool helps you monitor and organise all your domain names in one place
Whether it be accessing a new data feed, API or other webservice for an online application, setting up a webservice so that a third pary can access your data and services reliably, or simply improving or adding to an existing webservice framework you may have in place webservice-development.com will be able to help you!
Science Websites
These are websites that I've developed, worked on, or contributed to when heavily involved in Science either as a student or researcher.
A social network for scientists and engineers which fosters best practice in running experiments by collating shared experience
The personal website of Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Prize Winner for the discovery of Buckminsterfullerene (C60)
A blog aimed at undergraduate scientists explaining quantum mechanics in an accessible way
Work at Endemol
These are some of the better known websites I have been involved in the development, delivery, maintenance or production of while employed at Endemol.
This is the registration site for the hit TV show, The Million Pound Drop. A simple enough website from the front end, running on an advanced infrastructure designed to handle spontaneous high load of hundreds of thousands of users based on both cloud and traditional hosting systems.
This is the main (non-BBC) website for Total Wipeout in the UK. It's a custom WordPress deployment making use of various advanced features and plugins.
This is the contestant application website for the hit reality TV show, Big Brother. A simple enough website from the front end, running on an advanced infrastructure designed to handle spontaneous high load of hundreds of thousands of users based on both cloud and traditional hosting systems.
The National Lottery's on line TV channel, showing programmes on how to play lotto games, stories from national lottery winners and some great music performances. My involvement with this site has been the ongoing enhancement and maintenance of the website and facilitating the move from Ooyala our original streaming media partner for this project to Brightcove.
Endemol produces the total rugby radio podcast on behalf of the International Rugby Board. My involvement with this project was the delivery of a simple solution which allowed the show producers to manage and deliver new podcast material and syndicate this out to the Amazon Cloud Front CDN for fast worldwide delivery on demand.
This is the website for the popular CBBC TV show Me and My Monsters. My role with this site was to define the hosting and development standards the site needed to be built to; deployment of the site (and its updates) to Endemol's hosting estate; and occasionally debugging deployment issues alongside the main developers Complete Control.
When Darlow Smithson Productions was acquired by Endemol previous contracts for its website CMS and hosting came up for review, and it was noted that significant cost savings could be made by porting the website to Endemol's in-house CMS framework based on Kohana. As such an interim static copy of the website was taken on contract expiry and hosted as a standalone proposition until a full port of the website to the Kohana based system could be made.
My main involvement with this site has been maintenance of the WordPress based blog, phpBB based forum and newsletter software as well as the delivery of secure high performance solutions for high load online contestant application processes.
This site was already established on my arrival at Endemol. Work to date has involved the addition of and deployment of new functionality and other ongoing maintenance.
This the main corporate website for Endemol UK. Though intended as a B2B website, elements of B2C are evident within the site for the general public wishing to know more about Endemol. The site itself was mostly built on my arrival at Endemol however I was responsible for a number of enhancements and bug fixes since, as well as deployment and tailoring for other markets. This site framework has since been deployed in South Africa and the USA
This site is an adaptation of the base CMS and site and created for Endemol UK. please see the Endemol UK entry for further information.
This site is an adaptation of the base CMS and site and created for Endemol UK.
This is the Scottish Parliament's live streaming website, this is largely managed by other people. My main role on this website is ensuring contacts are maintained and that streaming charges are made appropriately.
A resources and sales website for independent short film producers int he UK
This site is an adaptation of the base CMS and site and created for Endemol UK. please see the Endemol UK entry for further information.
This site was pre-built on my arrival at Endemol and hasn't been drastically altered. My main involvement with this site (aside from managing hosting) has been to perform some basic SEO improvements to the underlying html to ensure correct representation in Google for key searches.
Originally a Symfony based website this legacy project ceased to function after a server upgrade. As a legacy project with no ongoing development or content management planned, a decision was made to convert the website to a flat html site until such a time where its would warrant a rebuild of the CMS.
Originally a Symfony based website this legacy project ceased to function after a server upgrade. As a legacy project with no ongoing development or content management planned a decision was made to convert the website to a flat html site until such a time where its use would warrant a rebuild of the content management system.
Netbasic
These are some of the sites I worked on while employed by Netbasic. The main focus of my work here was on various aspects of advanced backend functionality, however due to the close relationship with the design teams there was often heavy cross over into the sites' UX/IA and SEO aspects
Accepted.co.uk is Netbasic's loan plan search engine which used real credit scoring algorithms to match users with the most appropriate loans for them pre-application. Taking literally 100's if not 1000's of plans, combining them with a large number of scoring metrics, and returning relevant results in real time was a technical feat still not seen on other websites.
A website similar to miniclip.com, providing various flash games to users
An online advertising network promoting Netbasic's products and services as well as others
Protectecd.co.uk is Netbasic's insurance product search engine.
Trapped.co.uk is Netbasic's debt management solution service.
No Longer Online
This category is for sites that are no longer online and as such may or may not have an associated image
A business profile website for a Kinesiologist based in Southampton, showing booking slots, contact details, information about the benefits of kinesiology, etc.
This was a complete redesign of the Southampton Chapter of the Optical Society of America's student website. I believe it has now been taken offline due to the lack of in house skills to maintain it.
A website of chemistry course notes for undergraduate students.
Small Agency Work
These are websites I have worked on in one form or another as an agency freelance developer.
I was asked by Bella Pierre to construct a comprehensive SEO plan for their new European websites, though a lot of analysis was completed the activity was shelved for budgetary reasons.
This website required a component to import feeds of products from Gumtree and display them a localised classified listings within the site. Unfortunately the component never went live.
A social networking website built from the ground up on Code Igniter. The design and html elements were produced by other people.
This website required some back-end component development, code auditing and debugging before it went live.
This website required the building of some front end JavaScript components and assistance in transition between shopping cart programs