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 This large site was first done in Dreamweaver but was falling into disrepair. I completely remodelled and updated it in the style of the original but with no Dreamweaver dependency. The school staff make most changes themselves now. |
 Here's the third version of a therapy site built almost exclusively on email and telephone communications - just a one hour initial design meeting. Site navigation could hardly be clearer than this. |
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 This is a big, elegant two tone site with lots of text, lovely photos and extremely clear navigation around its 18 pages. It's also got one page in Dutch. |
 This site shows off a large collection of lovely paintings and is regularly updated. The navigation buttons are particularly clear, reinforcing the unique banner for each page. |
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 Here's a good-looking, easy to navigate site controlled almost entirely from a single stylesheet (css) file. |
 This site shows off a collection of stunning paintings - note the fast and context sensitive navigation. |
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 Here's a furniture and kitchen design site whose owner is currently planning a redesign of the content and style. |
 This site shows graphically what a skill plastering is and also how you can easily make a website very personal. Awaiting new hosting. |
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 This was my first commercial site. Very simple, and noteworthy for the way the owner amends the variable content as Word documents, converts them to pdfs then uploads those to the site herself. Awaiting new hosting. |
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I started building, as opposed to designing, websites relatively recently. I find it a very enjoyable blend of giving people what they want plus a lot of design and technical elements. My basic philosophy is to make sites that look good, have clear navigation, present the content effectively and are above all sustainable. They're not the flashiest sites around but they are easy to amend so as to keep them up to date. If I were to disappear to an island in the Pacific anyone with reasonable web skills could pick up any of my sites and carry on developing it. My websites all avoid javascript and consist purely of a css style sheet file plus html web pages plus images (jpg, gif or png as appropriate) plus, optionally, pdf resource documents and guides. I avoid website generators that tie you in. And I'm not involved with any database-dependent sites, eg ones with shopping baskets. |
So my sites will run anywhere on the web at minimum cost, even in the free webspace ISPs usually give you. Even the 'hotspot' image menu at the top of my home page is done purely in html. And I make sure all my images are from legitimate sources, eg my own or from Wikimedia, so there's no danger from those 'spiders' looking for copyrighted images. Above are links to my main creations, shown
running in
different browsers (I always test in Internet Explorer 7/8, Firefox,
Safari, Opera and Google Chrome). They are more or less in recent
sites first order. I'm told I should include some testimonials. The sites I've done speak for themselves but here are a couple: "Many thanks for the swift and elegant work, as well as all the personal attention and support." and"a big thank you for the wonderful job you have done." And everybody's surprised how little it costs to get a nice site up and running (and then keep it up to date). |
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is my site running on the mobile phone simulator at
operamini.com/developer. You have to zoom in to each page then scroll around a bit but it seems to work pretty well. I've shown one full page and one zoomed in.   |
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