Web Design

Global Computer Technology (GCT)

My first project outside of work, I agreed to create a website for Rashad Najeeb and his business in distributing IT hardware and software. Rashad provided me with his compay logo and I came back with a design that he was happy with. He then provided me with the content he wished to show on the five pages he intended to have on the site. I also added a google map section to the contact page to provide customers with a clearer idea of where the company is based.

The work was completed and put live in a little under two weeks. It was the speed of which I was able to create this website from scratch and get it onto the internet and facing the public which has inspired me to help those in need of building a website.

The Lancashire Workforce Development Partnership (LWDP)

This is the website I developed with AccessPlanIT. The goal here was to provide the LWDP with one single point of access to all of their online services. This meant integrating the website with the LWDP's current online learning management system called LancashirePlan.

I was responsible for the design of the website. It was important to keep it closely related to the style of the current LancashirePlan system, as some pages directly display content from this very system. I decided to work with the blue that the LWDP logo is displayed with. It allowed me to produce an attractive menu bar and headers.

I was given 3 months to complete this bespoke site and followed through solely during design, coding an testing phases. It is perhaps the best demonstration of my capability as a .NET developer. I put to use some of the new techniques I had learned with AccessPlanIT.

I used Javascript much more freely as I had previously done, in the goal of making the site run alot more smoothly. I implemented call back methods as opposed to the post backs I had previously used. The web pages were written in XHTML and my preferred style of CSS based layout was used. I got to use some AJAX functions as well for the first time. Notably the accordian style menu on the right hand side of the home page and the search box in the top right which predicts text as it is entered.

Snow + Rock

The last website I was involved with at Exact Abacus was the development of the Snow + Rock website. It was a joint effort with a developer on my team, due to the workload and timescale. While I had no input as far as the design was concerned, we were responsible for the functionality working correctly.

It was also the first project to use CSS based layout HTML as opposed to the table based style previously used by the company. This is something I have stuck by ever since when developing and believe that a well designed website should not be comprimised by large HTML files as is normally the case with table based layout.