Portfolio
Livedonkey
Scripts, Tools and Insight
Everyone needs a home and we are very proud to make Livedonkey ours. There is no better way to organise your electornic life than a website these days and that's why this place exists.
It's our personal collection of scripts & tools, our portfolios as well as the special projects we take on. It can be anything we want it to be, and at the moment, it is exactly that.
Standards Compliant and Search Engine Optimised, while remaining completely accessible to any browser are a few of the key advantages our site has gained through its '03 redesign.
Auckland Museum
The Auckland War Memorial Museum - Release due Feb '04
The Auckland War Memorial Museum is, rumoured to be, the second most visited tourist attraction in New Zealand.
The 2004 rendition of the website makes the most of a fully integrated ground-up Content Management System and is used extensively by the museum staff.
Under contract to DMD Internet, my envolvement with this project spans the development of it's many javascript user interfaces, backend work covering authoring, publishing & privilege systems as well as code quality assurance and optimisation.
This site is due to be released sometime in February 2004.
Project Nark
A public repository for reporting anti-social driving behaviour
Project Nark is "a public repository for reporting anti-social driving behaviour". Its inspiration comes from the need of a better way to complain about fellow road users.
The site is platform neutral, standards compliant and accessible to all browsers and screen readers, yet it makes use of the latest browser technologies.
While the design is spacious, the empahsis is on usability, which makes the user experience easy, rich, fast and enjoyable.
IP ProLink
Offers internet consultancy and web services
IP ProLink Ltd provides Internet Consultancy and Bespoke Solutions to companies wanting managed servers and/or other internet related services.
This site is closely linked to its subsidiary site virtual-pc.net providing its customers with access to their statements online, the ability to update their details and information about their currently purchased services.
Warming and provocatively easy to navigate, this site was hugely successful.
Wizards of Darkness
A Quake 'clan' formed in '97 by the New Zealand gaming community
The Wizards of Darkness, also called WiZ, are a quake clan. They formed somewhere back in 1997, when ID Software's Quake was the heart of gaming.
While this site has been through many changes over the years, finally my turn came around for the redesign job and I jumped at the chance.
It boasts a members area, news console and forum, giving a center of organisation within the clan. It also complies with current web standards.
Virtual PC
Hosting and domain based ISP
Virtual was a major project that acquired a bankrupt ISP. The site's first use was as a medium of communication to its existing customer base.
After stabilising and improving services to existing customers, the site went on to offer interactive support and an interface to customer records via a secure area.
It also continued to sell internet services such as website hosting and other industry related products.
HexyMusic
Music production website
HexyMusic is an amateur recording artist website designed solely for distributing recorded demo's in mp3 format and announcing projects.
The site was built to be XHTML 1.0 compliant and features streamed downloads, a secure area for uploading new music and a statistical analysis section.
Rutherfords Locksmiths
Locksmiths website advertising their in store ranges of products
Rutherfords Locksmiths Ltd are a small high street company which are now using their website to promote sales of trophies, leatherman knives, personalised bears and embroidery services.
Their site has a simple brochure ordering system for obtaining some of the many full colour brochures they offer products from.
Medline Scientific
UK supplier of medical equipment
Medline Scientific Ltd required an online presence as well as a way for customers to request quotes and place orders.
The site features an updateable products catalogue as well an administration area for viewing site statistics and changing various website content. The site is now awaiting a decision to add full online purchasing to its features.
LondonLink
ISP offering internet connectivity and mission critical hosting
LondonLink, a London based business ISP, required an informational website that gave access to their product and service lists and appropriate documentation, such as reseller information and acceptable use policies.
SDC Rental
Sun Developer Connection Rental website
The Sun Developer Connection Rental program website was set up to offer members access to cheap deals on renting typically expensive sun servers and equipment.
The site boasts updateable news and events calendars for the developer community as well as the facility to obtain sun's developer magazine "The developer source".
DBCGames
Café Network Gaming Project
Dbcgames (databoxcafe.com games) was set up to bring together a community of internet café users and introduce them to multiplayer network gaming.
At its most popular stage, ID software's Quake 2 was the game of choice, but other games such as StarCraft, Unreal Tournament 2 and the original Quake were often played.
databoxcafe.com
Internet Café Customer Portal
This site was designed to help internet café users access email and find useful links when surfing the net.
The site used a statistic system that recorded outgoing traffic that helped café staff isolate the most popular websites, of which Hotmail won hands down.
This site also appeared on websmostlinked.com in 2000.
ICE Station
Internet Cafés Everywhere Initiative
The Internet Cafés Everywhere initiative was a distribution project for iCafé, the internet café timing software created and used by Wasp Global in databoxcafe.com internet cafés and LA Fitness health clubs.
The site also made available the latest demo software of iCafé for download.
iCafé GUI
Internet Café Timing Software Graphical User Interface
This Graphical User Interface made a huge impression on end users of a popular Internet Café based in the London, England.
Designed when Adobe PhotoShop 5 was the staple graphic design tool, the step away from standard and often ugly Visual Basic interfaces was accepted with huge success.
As a requirement for Wasp Global's product distribution, the GUI was skinned with many alternate themes. It was also used extensively in LA Fitness outlets in the UK.
Richard Steer Solicitors
Brochure based website for small high street solicitors
The Richard Steer & Company Solicitors website was created solely from their corporate brochure and is an exact replica, at least as far as the web would allow.
Its design is simple, fast loading and effective.