Design Different Portfolio
Below are examples of websites I've created. Click on a picture to go to the website (each opens in a new window).
St. Peter's Parish Church, Sheringham
The website for St. Peter's Parish Church in Sheringham.
Built using XHTML and CSS, with Google Analytics web stats and a PHP contact form. The site includes photo galleries and a Google Calendar and Map.
Design Brief: To build a website to provide information about the church and its activities and role in the local community.
Solution: The Church Warden provided the text and photographs. I used some of the photos to make a site banner.
Norfolk Organists' Association
The website for Norfolk Organists' Association.
Built using XHTML and CSS, with Google Analytics web stats. The includes photo galleries and details of upcoming and past events.
Design Brief: To redesign the Norfolk Organists' Association website.
Solution: I used photographs and text supplied by members of the Association and also produced a banner and some other images from my own photographs.
Emma's Creations - Textiles, Cards and Flowers
The website for Emma Bradley, who makes beautiful designs with textiles, including handmade cards and flowers.
Built using XHTML and CSS, with Google Analytics web stats and Paypal online shop.
Design Brief: To build a website to showcase Emma's textile designs and allow people to buy her cards online.
Solution: I used Emma's photographs and text. The font for the banner and main headings is called 'Girls are Weird' and was created by Canadian illustrator and cartoonist Johnny Martz and the page borders were designed by my wife Vanna.
Sweet Fingers, Cakes and Favours
The website for Sweet Fingers, a local cake maker.
Built using XHTML and CSS, with Google Analytics web stats.
Design Brief: To build a website to showcase Sweet Fingers' products.
Solution: I edited text for the web pages and created the banner and overall design to have a cakes and confectionery theme.
Write Minded
A Content Management website, built to hold writing, poetry and pictures.
Uses Joomla! content management software.
Design Brief: To build a Content Management website to hold text and photographs provided by the editors and other contributors.
Solution: I customised a Joomla! template and provided some photographs for the site.
The site allows approved guest contributors to sign in and create or amend articles and features links to other sites, RSS feeds to and from the site and a CSS image gallery.
Priscilla White, Hypnotherapy and EFT
The website for Priscilla White, a hypnotherapist and Level 2 EFT practitioner based in the Dereham area of Norfolk.
Built using XHTML and CSS, with Google Analytics web stats.
Design Brief: To build a website to provide details of Priscilla's services.
Solution: Priscilla wrote the text, which I edited for the web pages. The banner is one of my photographs of Holkham Beach in Norfolk. We used stock images for the other photographs.
I used shaded boxes on the home page to draw attention to particular services, and these link to other pages on the site.
Peter Dibble, Willow Basket Maker
The website for Peter Dibble, a Norwich-based willow basket maker.
Built using XHTML and CSS. Uses Google Analytics web stats.
Design Brief: To build a simple website to showcase Peter's work.
Solution: Peter had a lovely photograph of his own willow beds, which I used for the site's banner and footers. I chose a colour scheme to match this for the rest of the site. The background image is a close up of Peter's basket work.
Peter's work portfolio shows his baskets and garden structures on a clean background.
There is a separate page for contact details.
Vivid Images
The website for Andrew Pettitt, an artist based in Norfolk.
Built using XHTML and CSS. Uses Google Analytics web stats.
Design Brief: To build a website to give details of Andrew's paintings and drawings, including image galleries.
Solution: I used one of Andrew's paintings for the site banner and chose colours (muted greens and blues) from this picture for the site background and side bar.
The height of each page is fixed, to maximise the amount viewed in the browser window.
Thumbnail pictures in the galleries link to larger images. Each page has contact details in the sidebar.
Grapes Hill Community Garden
The website for a Community Garden near where I live in Norwich.
Built using XHTML and CSS. Uses a Google Map and Google Analytics web stats.
Design Brief: To provide information about the Grapes Hill Community Garden in Norwich and show to funding bodies and the local community how work is progressing.
Solution: I used a combination of my own photographs of flowers, fruit and vegetables and those taken by members of the Community Gardening Group. I edited content supplied by the group's co-ordinator, as well as providing some myself. The font, Verdana, is very easy to read. I used the group's existing logo and this determined the colours I used elsewhere in the site. The site includes photo galleries, an Events page with the latest news on the garden and a PHP contact form.
St. Thomas' Church, Heigham
The website for my local church, built to provide information about the church and its activities and role in the local community.
Built using XHTML and CSS and a PHP contact form. Uses Google Calendar, Google Map and free web stats.
Design Brief: To provide information about St. Thomas' Church, Heigham, including a diary that can be updated by church committee members. The site needed to be attractive to Christians and non-Christians alike. I found this church website guide very helpful.
Solution: I wrote and edited content to give a consistent style. I took photographs of the church and congregation and obtained permission to use archive photographs for the site's "History" page. It was important to keep costs down, so I used a free Google Calendar. The font, Arial, is clear and clean. To aid navigation, I added 'you are here' wording. There is a PHP contact form so people can send an e-mail to the PCC Secretary.
The Last Bartlett
My family history website, built to display old family photographs and provide information on my Bartlett, Clarke, Serjeant, Thomas, Griffiths, Dossor and Attwooll ancestors.
Built using XHTML and CSS. Uses free site search and web stats.
Design Brief: To display old family photographs and ancestors' history in an interesting but concise format.
Solution: To give an "old fashioned" look I used the colours of a red leather-bound book to go with the black and white photographs on the site. The font, Georgia, looks traditional but is specially designed to be readable on a computer screen.
Since launching the site in February 2009 I have been discovered by relatives in England, Ireland, Australia and Canada and I have greatly extended my family tree.
Vanna Art
Small business website featuring picture galleries of paintings and photographs and a Paypal online shop.
My first website, which I built for my wife Vanna's art business, Vanna Art.
Built using XHTML and CSS. Includes free web stats and a Paypal online shop.
Design Brief: To display paintings and their prices clearly and simply, in an online gallery format. To provide background information on some of the paintings.
Solution: I chose a clean background to show the paintings and photographs on the site with a minimum of clutter. The font is Tahoma, which is stylish and very easy to read.
As well as increasing awareness of Vanna's art business and attracting customers, the site acts as a useful catalogue for suppliers of Vanna's cards, coasters and placemats.