I have been designing and programming great websites since 1995 and am available for web-based work on a freelance basis. I am based in London but have also successfully worked remotely for foreign clients. You can email me.
What I can do
- HTML and CSS. With an awareness of accessibility and usability issues.
- PHP and MySQL. I have several years' experience and write neat object-oriented code with plenty of comments.
- Information architecture. Organising sites, drawing up site plans, userflows and wireframes, and generally planning how things work.
- Design. Assuming you like my graphics-light style.
- Movable Type. I have plenty of experience of setting up and running sites using Movable Type.
- More... I'm always ready to apply my experience to learning and working on new technologies and ideas.
Examples of my work
- BBC homepage
- A colleague and I were commissioned to develop a new editorial focus for the bbc.co.uk homepage for 12-18 months time.
- BBC Programmes
- Working at the BBC I developed the HTML and CSS for this site which provides permanent pages for every TV and radio programme broadcast.
- Dopplr
- I developed the initial HTML/CSS templates for the hot new social travel website.
- Blyk
- I was responsible for developing the structural and graphical design for some of the behind-the-scenes processes for advertisers on the youth-oriented mobile phone network.
- The Time When
- A prototype website developed in collaboration with the BBC. The aim was to both aggregate events that happened on individual days in history and also allow people to write their own memories of those dates and share them with others. An internal team later developed Memoryshare based on the prototype.
- BBC Innovation Labs
- I designed and built the website for this annual project using Movable Type. It is used to encourage companies to enter the competition and allows the winners to post updates during their week working together. It was planned so it could easily be re-used each year.
- JamieOliver.com
- Working with Poke, I was responsible for the site's PHP, Perl, MySQL, XHTML, CSS and integrating Movable Type and phpBB. The site won a Webby Award in 2005.
- Ning.com
- I prepared many XHTML/CSS templates for the new social software development site from designs developed in-house. These had to allow users freedom to create their own custom applications without disrupting Ning's own structure.
- TV Archive Search for BBC
- Using television programme data taken from broadcast streams I designed and built an internal site for the BBC to demonstrate alternative methods of navigating a massive archive of TV shows. eg, tagging, rating, social networks, etc.
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- I prepared a number of XHTML/CSS templates based on designs by Wilson Fletcher. Site development was then managed in-house. Read more.
- Wood Mackenzie
- Also based on designs by Wilson Fletcher, I prepared a large number of XHTML/CSS templates for the site, which was then developed by Wood Mackenzie themselves.
- TheyWorkForYou.com
- Collaborating with other volunteers, I was responsible for the site's XHTML and CSS, most of its PHP and some of its design and architecture. (I am no longer working on the project.)
- Other clients
- I have also worked on a variety of successful projects for companies such as the FT.com, Nature, Campbell-Lange Workshop, Digit, Syzygy, Ideas Bazaar, and Fast Future.
- Personal projects
- I have also created sites such as The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Byliner and the Haddock Directory, all of which are maintained in my free time.
More about my work
Before I began freelancing in 2003 I worked in a range of capacities at companies such as Wired magazine (system administrator), Capital Radio (deputy editor) and UpMyStreet.com (creative technologist).
In 2004 I was profiled in the Guardian.
Other details are available on my CV or in my timeline. If you have any questions, do email me.
Last updated: 5 December 2007
