Nokia Propagate - Facebook App

This Facebook app, developed for Nokia was built with the purpose of allowing a selected group of users to register to receive a free trial of their new phone, the Lumia 800, running Microsoft Windows Phone 7 OS.

Originally, the project was scoped (and built) to allow AJAX uploading of video files, which where then pushed asynchronously to YouTube, however this featured was removed shortly before the launch.

The project uses the Facebook API to request and store the users Email address for notifications on the status of their application and some nice jQuery animation effects and UI elements to aid in giving the app the same feel as the Windows Phone 7 UI.

Landrover Compliance - April Fools

Yep, I was the developer behind the April fools prank that Landrover played on the masses. Although this was a simple HTML build project, the idea behind it was great.

For April Fools 2011, Landrover seeded news that the EU was soon to implement a new piece of legislation stating that all tax discs must be kept perfectly level to avoid RSI in the necks of traffic wardens and parking attendants. To counter, they not only conceptulised but actually produced a 'self levelling tax disc holder'. This fancy piece of kit worked in such a way that it ensured your car tax disc was always kept perfectly level.

The spoof site, designed and built by Wunderman also featured a video of the press conference discussing the 'product' at the landrover HQ!

KA Style Facebook App

The purpose of this project was primarily as a Facebook competition. Users can apply for the competition by uploading a photo or video of themselves, along with some text explaining their style. They then share their entry on Facebook and get their friends to vote for them.

An Adobe Air application was also developed in order to allow users to enter the competition with a video entry at one of the Ford exhibitions across UK shopping centres throughout the final quarter of 2010.

The development, planning and management of the project was undertaken by myself, with the Air application being developed by freelance Flash developer Chris O'Byrne

This project was built in PHP with a mySQL database. I made extensive use of the Facebook API in order to fetch user data and push data into their news streams when they shared entries. This project made extensive use of the YouTube, Twitter, Bit.ly and Flickr APIs.

AMD Blogs

AMD required a kitted-out Wordpress solution to provide a simple way of presenting their many different blogs to their audience. The completed article os a fully functioning Wordpress 3.0 site with some bespoke PHP plugins and a custom theme.

When I undertook this project, I had never worked with Wordpress in any depth so after spending a few days examining the structure and methodology behind how it was working, I was confident enough to get started.

There is also some integration with the Facebook and Twitter API used in this project for sharing posts via social media.

Santander F1 2010

The Santander F1 site was a high profile, tight deadline project. It has many features including custom gallery creation, revolving around photos and video, a sophisticated tagging system for use by the interactive search facility, Facebook, Twitter and Google Sites API integration and complete internationalisation.

The application is primarily available in 3 languages, using geo-location to identify the users country and assigning a language based on that information. The user can change this if required by using the languages drop down. All content is fully content managed with all content pulled from the database based on the users locale.

Win By Raffle

Win by raffle is an online raffle / spot the ball type game where registered users purchase tickets to a particular raffle. Once they have entered a raffle, they can choose the pixels of an image that they feel are the winning pixels. On raffle completion, a judge decides the winning pixel and the winner is notified, winning any number of fantastic prizes. There is also a section for trade companies to log in and add their own raffles to the system. This site is PHP and mySQL driven, using jQuery and some AJAX for the game functionality

Fastlines

Fastlines provide a wide array of hardware to schools, such as tables, chairs and stools. The purpose of this site is for them to be able to sell their merchandise online. One of the more complicated aspects of this project is the unique product code system as a product (i.e. a chair), is available in a multitude of frame colours and an equal multitude of seat colours, each combination with a different image (switchable on the product view page with jQuery) and a different product code as well as different stock levels.

ECO Animal Health

Eco Animal Health provide animal medication accross the world. The site features a complex product administration and filtration system, allowing admins to add products relavent to animals, diseases and worldly regions and users to filter by the same criteria.

The site also features product PDF datasheets, a dynamic flash map and a users login area.

Regent Homes

Regent Homes London are a estate agents based in the City. With their new website they are able to dynamically add properties at will.

Users can search for a property by a comprehensive set of criteria and also search for properties based on location thanks to google maps API integration.

ACIS Freight Insurance System

ACIS are an insurance underwriting agency working closely with the AXA Insurance Group.

The system was designed to allow ACIS Underwriters, brokers and forwarders to collaborate and generate quotes for shipments and streamline the process of issuing insurance policies for their main client, the AXA Group.

The system has a huge range of functionality including the ability to calculate insurance quotes based on cargo, destination to/from and a large array of other factors, generate reports based on issued policies, many different levels of login, PDF insurance certificate generation, insurance rate calculation, an accounting suite and much more.

Skills Alliance Job Board

Skills Alliance are a recruitment consultants primarily dealing with pharmaceutical and constructional positions.

Their website allows them to add vacancies for either category of employment. Users are able to search for positions by many fields including salary, location and category. Users can also register online for job dates, with the website automatically sending them an e-mail if a position is added that matches the criteria they specified.

Users can apply for jobs online and the applicants CV (doc or PDF) is then e-mailed to the recruiter.

Internet Assist Re-design

My previous company decided to have a website makeover. With the excellent aid of one of the designers, the design pictured to the left was created. The site is very striking and has many small user touches such as accordion boxes and a very nice jQuery gallery.

It incorporates a sliding "menu" at the bottom allowing the user to scroll the existing projects and select one to view. There is a transparent PNG overlayed over the main image that will slide up on mouseover to display the projects information.

The pagination at the top of the main image makes uses of jQuery functions' callbacks to fade out the existing image, load the next image of that project and then fade it back in again.