Still As Life

Here it is, the all new Still As Life design on Wordpress. Check it out at blog.stillaslife.com or head to the new portal page at www.stillaslife.com!

This old Blogger blog will remain here, accessible at stillaslife.com/blogger.html so that the articles on it are still available for everyone.

The new Still As Life blog also incorporates a gallery system for my fractal art and wallpapers, which are free for anyone to use as their desktop background and so on as long as my little copyright statement remains intact. The gallery is of course, very empty at the moment as I have not yet put many of my completed ones up, and I am re-rendering some of them at higher quality on the new computer. There will of course be new ones as well as time passes.

That's it for this blog. I'll see you at the new one!

Labels: art, code, design

I've been talking about it, so where is it?

The new Still As Life blog?

Well, the design is virtually completed, and setup for Wordpress, I just have a few more small things to sort out in it along with setting up the basis for the second half of the website.

That's right, there's a second half!

Don't all pass out at once, I have been working!

The new Still As Life design is, I am proud to say, in my opinion Web 2.0, though as Web 2.0 is as flexible as any other definition of a design style, that is open to interpretation.

So, I can safely say, it will be alive soon.

Since I'm changing over to Wordpress instead of Blogger, and the file paths will be changing, that does mean a different RSS URL along with other changes, but in the long run, I think it will be very beneficial.

That's all for now, catch ya.

Labels: code, design, internet

The Alstonville Pathfinder Club forum is now live. It has actually been live for a week or so, I just haven't had time to blog anything about it up until now. It is based on the Simple Machines forum system.

For anyone that doesn't know what Pathfinders actually is, it is similar to the Scouts teen and youth programs. There is a lot of information available at Pathfinders Online. Basically though, if you come across someone who is a Pathfinder, they are part of a worldwide organisation of people that are sponsored by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. Of course you don't have to be religious to join, or of the SDA denomination.

As I said, it is similar to the Scouts organisation and includes activities like camping and survival skills, leadership training, community outreach programs, various training programs in more fields than you can poke a stick at, including recreational, artistic, nature based, conservation, vocational, and outreach area's. These training programs all have various levels and awards (or honours) for their completion, many of which are recognised in Australia towards formal qualifications.

Pathfinders are all led, not only by adults, but by their peers. Each level of Pathfinders gains more responsibility and as their rank suggests, Guides and Master Guides, the highest ranking Pathfinders before the leaders and councillors, are guides and role models for the younger Pathfinders. They assist the younger Pathfinders in succeeding in their completion of honours and attaining their next rank.

Pathfinder activities include regular camp outs as well as hall meetings, the yearly expedition where Pathfinders from each division go on exactly that, a hiking expedition with each other and their leaders. Of course, you can't mention Pathfinder activities without mentioning the Camporee's. Camporee's have various sizes from the more common division Camporee's where Pathfinders from every club in a division all effectively go on a giant camp out, similar to a Scout Jamboree, then of course there are the bigger state-wide, national, and world-wide Camporee's that are less common.

I find I am quite often explaining to people what Pathfinder's are because they simply have never heard of them, so it may come as a surprise to many people just how large and wide-spread the Pathfinder clubs are. Clubs can range in size from very few people, even as small as 10, up to clubs in excess of 100 Pathfinders, and that's just in North NSW. The last national camporee that was held in Australia at Yarrahappini had over 5,000 Pathfinders in attendance from all over Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and other Pacific Islands. That's just the Pathfinders that could attend as well. There were many that were unable to make the trip. World-wide Camporee's are, as you can imagine, significantly larger.

Labels: design, special interest, work

This has to be one of the most interesting marketing ideas on a web store that I have seen. This page from Hema is almost entirely Flash based. It takes a few seconds to load, but it's definitely worth seeing.

It gives an excellent idea of the company image and what they sell, even though I don't understand the majority of the writing.

Check it out.

Labels: design

No, I have not been procrastinating about any of my personal design projects as mentioned earlier. Okay, I have a little bit. Anyway, the point is, I have been doing things.

You probably wouldn't have noticed this yet, but the copy on TerraMedia, particularly on the Home and Learn More pages has been updated. As the description meta tag is also what shows up in Google when TerraMedia comes up, this has also been updated to better reflect the primary target.

The new copy and tags don't yet show up in Google as it has not yet been crawled again, but this will hopefully be there in the next week or so.

Now, that's not that much is it?

No, but I have been doing other things too.

I was working on the new template for Still As Life, then it was looking awesome and was almost finished when a thought popped into my head. "Hey, I think I might change this blog over to WordPress rather than keep it on Blogger."

So I have spent most of the past couple of hours converting the template to a widgetized theme for WordPress. Despite having made widgetized themes before, as well as worked on ones that have already been widgetized, I always seem to forget something. A very useful thing to have on hand if you plan on widgetizing a WordPress theme is the article on Automattic about it. Very easy to follow and makes lots of sense. However, the section where it explains how to add multiple widgetized menus is a little confusing. So for the unsuspecting widgetizer, it may not work as simply as it would first appear it should. For that reason, here is what it should look like if you have 2 widgetized menus:

<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar(2,array(
'before_widget' => '',
'after_widget' => '',
'before_title' => '<div class="title">',
'after_title' => '</div>',
));
?>

Note that when it is mentioned on Automattic:

"I have a theme with more than one sidebar. How do I make them all dynamic?

Oh, that’s easy. Instead of register_sidebar() you should use register_sidebars(n) where n is the number of sidebars. Then place the appropriate number in the dynamic_sidebar() function, starting with 1."

It is referring to the second register_sidebar, not the first.

Anyway, hope that helps someone. There is also a possibility I won't use WordPress, but I'm having fun with my beautiful code all the same.

Labels: code, design, work

For some reason, this really doesn't surprise me. A very good idea though for those of us who can only dream, ladies and gentlemen, the Macbook Paper.

Labels: design, other

Powerhouse Music and Technology is a music store that sell musical and computer gear. They specialise in guitar parts, especially pickups, knobs, scratch plates, effects peddles and other guitar modifications.

I have been working on their site since the beginning, including the transition to a Zen-Cart based website.

Zen-Cart provides a vast amount of functionality and automation of things, thus it can almost be used entirely in the place of MYOB Retail Manager style inventory and sales management, it prints invoices, keeps the website up to date with current stock and so on.

Everything is customisable.

It does have a few downfalls, for example, only one image can be used for each product, unless you know how to use FTP and know HTML image tags. If this is the case, than you can put more images in the product description since it allows HTML to be entered in it.

It also does not have built in warranty claim management or return authorization management, so this must all be done manually by email, phone, or any other means.

Powerhouse Music and Technology has recently undergone a makeover. I did not design the original Zen-Cart website for them as they found a template much to their liking. I did do all of the custom graphics and so on, as well as all of the custom code.

Over the past week or so, we have been going through the website and making various changes to the template. For anyone that had not seen it previously, it had a dark grey/blue background and used varying shades of dark blue throughout the website. It was a fixed width and had a plain black background behind the main content area. Boring.

If you have a look at it now, you will notice a few key changes that we have been working on. The first and foremost is that the website has been lightened significantly without changing the colour scheme. It is now a much lighter grey/blue with darker rows alternating lighter product rows so they are easier to read.

The second main change to the website is that the background is no longer a boring plain black that does nothing but emphasise the empty background. It is now a tiled pattern based off the material covering of an early Vox Guitar Amplifier. The pattern does not scroll with the rest of the website so it remains the same no matter where you are or what your screen resolution is. The decision to do this was made because having the website automatically adjust to fit different resolutions, while being based on the current template would take a lot of time and work and would rewriting the majority of the CSS. Thus, something else was needed to emphasise the content.

The background does this perfectly. The colour scheme does not clash with the current colours and even the black material on it's own without the stitching provides a better background than the plain black because it contains various shades. The background as a whole however now emphasises the content and makes the website more interesting, especially on higher resolution screens.

There have been other changes made as well, though not so significant, with the switch from dark to light, the text colour has all had to be changed and in doing so, the link hover colour has been changed to a green rather than a blue, to fit in with the green used in the logo.

The menu has also been adjusted to remove gaps in it that left it seeming empty, which it is far from being.

Finally, there have been a few fixes to widths that had not previously been noticable with the darker background that became apparent with the light background.

The past couple of days we have been gradually working through the site and picking up the colour glitches here and there that have been caused by the change and were missed for whatever reason in the main styles. So if you have a look and notice anything that doesn't quite seem right, such as unreadable text, it would be great if you could let me know.

Thanks.

Labels: code, design, work

The past month, I have been brainstorming and experimenting with idea's on new and interesting (to me) things to do on the web.

So far I have a few things. Of course, high up on the list is to market TerraMedia and Ultralight more, but at the same time, there have been other things come up as a result of that.

Company and product image.

For example, I have been trying to come up with a new and interesting logo for TerraMedia. I did a subject at university first semester last year that was based entirely around product and company image, through logo's, packaging and so on. KIB101, Foundations of Communication Design 1 is the subject. Great subject, I learned a lot doing it. The problem is, I could not get past one of my early logo idea's which I realised after I finished it, that it was very similar to the old Sony Walkman logo which is a trade mark, and while it's not the same, I didn't particularly like the idea of Sony having a reason to come after me. Thus, I ended up with the current logo, which is nothing too special, I like it, but it's not what I would ideally like.

So, this is something I have been aiming to change. I still don't really have anything set in stone yet, but I have some idea's that I am working on since my mind has seemingly been freed of it's mental block at the moment. How long this will last I cannot say, but hopefully for a while yet.

In working on this new logo, I have also been considering redesigning the TerraMedia website, and reworking it to better fit my new marketing strategy (which is at the moment still in it's planning stages, so I can't give you details because it is not yet in an entirely logical structure and will most likely come across as a bunch of babble). I spent a couple of hours with Rhi on Sunday afternoon brainstorming possibilities in this regard, and along with things I have since come up with on top of our combined masses of brain power, I think we have some very interesting idea's that I plan on experimenting with. I'd show you, but that would ruin the surprise.

Rhi is also helping me out with the new logo design which is awesome as she is a fantastic artist! So a big thanks goes to her!

Portfolio.

Next on the list is a possibility I have been throwing around in my mind and have just begun experimenting with using Joomla!

Joomla! comes with a weblinks component when you install it, and that, combined with part of my new marketing strategies has thrown into the works a directory style portfolio. In a way, like a Yellow Pages of web site's by TerraMedia. Of course, there aren't that many at this stage, and it probably doesn't sound like much, but the idea's that are whizzing through my mind regarding this have me really intrigued about setting it up. I have something partially working at the moment. I'm hoping to get it up and running properly within the next couple of weeks.

This also is a reason behind the changes I would like to make in the design of the TerraMedia website. The current design does not incorporate any real portfolio the way I would like, thus it does not have one, which is not a good thing, in fact, it is a very bad thing.

Next up is email.

I have a Microsoft Exchange Server partially setup for TerraMedia. It's still in it's trial phases at the moment, but I am hoping to have it setup properly soon. This will make maintaining my email's, contacts and calendar (why does the spelling of calendar look wrong?) far easier from all over the world, not that I'm frequently all over the world, but you never know.

Once the Exchange server is fully setup and operational, TerraMedia will be offering it as a service instead of our current webmail/POP3 email service, if anyone is interested, pricing will be sorted out shortly. I aim to have this fully operational within the next couple of weeks as well to coincide with my plans.

Blogging.

I am planning on rearranging the news and client information blogs so that they are one and the same rather than two separate ones. I also accidentally blocked myself from allowing RSS, ATOM and OPML feed's from the news page, which is potentially problematic and another driving factor of a new design.

Blogging part 2.

Still As Life is still running off of what is essentially a standard template. Yes, I have changed it significantly. Background image, size, footer, menu etc, but it is still basically a standard template. This I do not like. In my brainstorming for TerraMedia, I stumbled across the foundations of a new design for Still As Life hiding in the dark, atramentous recesses of my mind.

So this is underway as well. I have it in progress, on the Still As Life server, but I'm not going to give you the link because that would ruin the surprise. If you can figure out the path to it though, enjoy and keep in mind that it is still in progress and the colours are far from final.

More Still As Life?

Yes, there is more. Still As Life was not originally intended to be solely the home of the personal blog of me, Matthew Brown. No, it was also meant to be a haven for my fractal gallery. Yes yes, there is my Deviant Art gallery, which does give me unlimited space and bandwidth for free. However, it is not really what I want. I have been tossing around ideas in my mind ever since I first began considering names for this blog. There is actually an installation of Coppermine Photo Gallery setup on this server and has been since I set up the domain. It's just one of those things that never quite went ahead.

Is there anymore?

As a matter of fact, yes! I just don't remember what else there was at the moment, that was actually part of the reason for this blog, so I don't forget everything. Oh well, I'll remember sooner or later. I actually have paper with stuff on it all over one of my walls for this reason as well, however this is one of the things that hadn't made it to paper yet. Though Rhi thinks the paper makes it look like I have gone mad with illegible scribble writing and drawings that look like they are part of the writing and so on. I am happy being mad.

Last but not least, in my creative and un-mentally blank mood, I have been doing some drawing (that does not look like scribble) as well. I have the outlines of a picture that I am quite proud of so far. Hopefully the rest of it will work right and I don't end up with, well, badness.

Labels: code, design, internet, rants, work

There are a few other websites now live that I have been working on as well.

You may or may not have seen the first two Domain Resorts websites that I worked on, if not, they are:

• Domain Resorts and Residences
• Domain Resorts and Residences Santai

Since completing these two, I have also been involved in working on five other websites for them through Webtrix™ Technologies.

The websites are as follows:

• Domain Resorts and Residences Drift
• Domain Resorts and Residences Beach Shacks
• Domain Resorts and Residences Mainwaring
• Domain Resorts and Residences Pandanus Pocket
• Domain Resorts and Residences North Stradbroke Island

For more websites that I have worked on, have a look at my portfolio.

Enjoy.

Labels: design, internet, work

The Swallow Fashion website has been live for about a week now. This is a website that I have been working on for Webtrix™ Technologies for some time now.

It was a very slow website to develop, however, it has turned out quite nicely. I was not the only person working on this website mind you, it was just one of those ones that takes a long time to get done, for no real reason.

Swallow Fashion have 3 stores in Brisbane city and do just about anything with clothes that you can think of. They mend, make dresses,perform alterations, dry clean, can work with leather and furs and so on.

I might be biased when I say I don't like some of the parts of the website that I didn't do. However, if you know what parts of the site they are, you can probably understand my dislike of them.

Labels: design, internet, work

This is pretty cool, it's been up for a while now, but GM are using Wordpress for their GMNext website. I've seen some criticism of how it has been implemented, but I think it has been done really nicely.

For more information on Wordpress and Wordpress websites, have a look at the news post on TerraMedia or visit the Wordpress website.

Wordpress is a great alternative to Blogger if you wish to host it yourself as it gives you much more control and functionality. If you don't, Wordpress have a free service similar to Blogger's Blogspot which is also quite a nice alternative to Blogger.

Labels: design, software

The all new Alstonville Pathfinders website is officially live. There are still a few minor changes to be made, such as the addition of the final logo when it is completed and so on, however it is predominately done and ready for use.

It is designed around Wordpress and incorporates an easy to use and update calendar and image gallery.

I might be slightly biased, but I think this is one of the hottest Pathfinder Club websites out there.

Feel free to agree or disagree. I don't mind.

Labels: design, work

As you may have noticed, there have been a few small changes to the Still As Life template.

The left side bar now extends the length of the page, which in my opinion gives the site a much more complete look. I have also added a little footer along the bottom of the page that matches the description bar along the top. I think this helps with the appearance of completion.

These two things are the main template changes, but there is also a new link section in the left side bar called "Cool Tools".

This just has a few useful tools in it. It will no doubt end up getting split into sub-categories and what not. For now though, thats how it is.

Enjoy.

Labels: code, design

How much does this place look like it's been pulled straight from the Lord of the Rings?

It's an actual house in Wales, owned and built by Simon Dale. It is intended to be a low environmental impact home.

The design and idea behind it is really quite cool.

Simon has set up a website that goes over the process of building the house and the purpose of it. There are also some tips and idea's for anyone who is wanting their own piece of the Shire.

There is also an interesting idea growing off of this house that is known as Lammas, or Lammas Low Impact Initiatives Ltd. The idea behind this is to create an entire self-sustainable village. The idea is great. Whether it will work successfully or not beyond the initial generations involved is a good question.

As far as I can see, the houses themselves are not really any more or less environmentally friendly than any other house except that they become part of the hills and are built using all natural materials rather than anything treated or fired, such as bricks, treated pine etc.

I may be mistaken, I didn't see anything about it in what I read, but it looks like they still use power, and possibly natural gas for all of the same things they are used for in any other house.

The way I understand it, they are aiming to be self sustainable, particularly in the Lammas commune. However, the way I see it, virtually any house with a yard can do this, to a degree, anyway. Just about anyone can grow enough vegetables to sustain their vegetable needs, or keep chickens for eggs, and so on.

It looks like they are using or planning to use solar panels for power, again these can really be setup on just about any house.

If everyone were to be producing a large portion of their own food it would not have the greatest effect on a capitalist economy as it would affect the jobs of a lot of people, farmers, butchers, bakers etc. However, if things like solar panels were much more commonplace on houses everywhere, could this not significantly reduce carbon emissions and reduce the need for coal and gas fired power stations?

There is a massive amount of surface area on the houses all over the world, even just in the developed countries there is a vast wealth of space on the roofs of houses and other buildings, it would be ideal to use as much of it as possible would it not?

I understand that not all houses and buildings are ideally situated for maximum exposure to the sun and are often planned to avoid getting the full intensity of it, but surely their roofs could still be used. Even if they are not producing enough electricity to be self sufficient, it would still help to reduce the heavy reliance on other dirtier sources of power.

I digress though, the original point of the blog is how much this house looks like the Hobbit houses in the Shire famous from the Lord of the Rings. Just in case you forgot.

Labels: design, special interest

For anyone that is interested, the Ultralight web design service by TerraMedia is up and running as of today.

There is an official news release up on the TerraMedia website outlining the details, as well as a blog on the dev.terramedia website.

For full information regarding Ultralight and to see a demonstration, have a look at the official Ultralight website.

Labels: design, internet

If you've ever been looking for free and interesting fonts that are actually of a fairly decent quality, I have to suggest you have a look at TypeNow.net. They have a great database of over 6,000 free fonts, as well as commercial fonts.

There are plenty of other places around with free fonts, but I find TypeNow particularly easy to use, and though it hasn't been marked as updated for near a year now, it contains a lot of good, useful fonts.

Check them out.

Labels: design

I've just been visiting the Feng-GUI website after reading about it briefly in SitePoint's Design View Newsletter #40.

This is really quite an interesting tool. The idea behind it is that using the algorithm they have developed, it can work out what points of the website are the main points that would draw a user's vision towards them. It then works creates a salience heat map to determine which parts of the page are effectively the "hottest" areas. Or as described on their webpage it:

"...is an artificial intelligence service which simulates human visual attention and creates an attention heatmap."

How cool is that? As you can see in the little image above showing this blog, the hottest points are not even on the content. While I don't think this is 100% accurate as of yet, I would say it is actually getting reasonably close and is definitely still a very useful tool for a web and/or graphic designer.

If you use the tool found on their home page, you can upload any image that is a max of 5mb and it will run the algorithm over it and produce a heat map for you. Alternatively, you can use bookmarklets or there is a Firefox extension available. These two options produce a larger image than the tool on their home page and so these might be more useful for some people, however I did notice that their is a slightly different result using these options. I don't know if it is because they are larger images or if it is something else.

Personally I think the heat maps produced by the home page tool are a bit more accurate, however the larger images are definitely more useful, especially in area's that have a lot of detail. I noticed that the Firefox extension and bookmarklets seemed to time out less than trying to create a heat map through the main page as well.

The Feng-GUI Firefox extension is very simple to use and is my favourite of the options. Once it is installed, it just ads a little flame icon to the bottom right of the Firefox status bar. Simply browse to the page you wish to see a heat map of and then click the flame. You will then be taken to the Feng-GUI website with a completed heat map in front of you. Easy as that.

The bookmarklet code can be found on the tools page of the Feng-GUI website and I have setup a little example below so you can see how it works:

Make a heat map of www.stillaslife.com.

I know I've already found this useful, so hopefully you will too.

Enjoy.

Labels: design, internet, software, special interest, technology

The new development blog for TerraMedia, dev.terramedia is now online. Of course it is only new and is something I've only been working on for the past few days so it doesn't have a great deal on it yet, and nowhere near as much as I would ideally like, but it will get there. It may still have a few bugs here and there that need to be ironed out, but as it stands, it is ready to be live, after all, it is about development in regards to TerraMedia and so on.

As I have been using WordPress.org for some of my newer content managed websites, I have decided to use it for dev.terramedia as well. The reason for this is based on a couple of things.

1. First and foremost, I love the latest version of WordPress.
   
2. In my opinion it rivals systems like Joomla! as far as simple content management goes. Of course more complicated things may need the functionality Joomla! has over WordPress, but when that's not needed, I think WordPress is great!
3. It is only logical that I provide a working showcase of one of the system's I recommend using and demonstrate it in one of my own websites.
4. I didn't want the Blogger brand on my development blog. As great as Blogger is, you have to keep the Blogger button on it somewhere.
5. I wanted the extra control I have over the source in WordPress, not that I have any intention of modifying the source at this stage, but I like the extra control I have.
6. I am considering transferring the main TerraMedia website over to WordPress instead of Joomla! and would like to use dev.terramedia as a way to facilitate that change.
   

That's about it really. Nothing high and mighty about it, I just feel that for what it is and for what I need it for, it surpasses everything else.

Labels: code, design, internet, software

One of the other major websites I have been working on is actually live too, I forgot about this one in my earlier post.

It is a sub-site of the main Domain Resorts website. It is for their Santai Resorts and can be found at www.santaidomain.com.

This one is also getting quite a few unique page views each day, though it is not yet as high as the main website.

Labels: design, internet, work

As of mid last week, one of the major websites I have been working on is now live.

The main Domain Resorts website can be found at: www.domainresorts.com.

I haven't checked on this myself yet, but I understand it is already getting over 100 unique page views a day, so clearly we are doing things right.

Their sub-sites for each of their resorts will soon be live as well.

Labels: design, internet, work

Maybe it's just me, but when you are paying hundreds to thousands a year on a website, you expect it to work, and to get a response about problems quickly.

I have come across a few web companies that only work like this if it is the easiest thing for them to do. Most recently, the company that owns the system that the store I work at uses for our website.

As I do the majority of the website content maintenance and general store IT work, and as a fellow web designer and developer myself, I understand their situation, however, I do not think they have handled it well.

The content management system that they have written, while it is a good idea as there are few good systems in their area that are also easy to use, has had some problems.

It is a nice, simple and clean system, but for the past 5 months, almost as long as I've been working at the store there have been unresolved problems constantly springing up.

Some of the user updatable things on the website do not save to the database, we have been asking to have this fixed for 3 months, but none of our emails regarding this have gotten a reply, ever, when we have spoken to them in meetings or on the phone once we have given up emailing them about it and not getting a response, we have been told it would be fixed within the week, it still isn't fixed.

Another problem sprung up about 2 months ago where images would occasionally get mixed up and an entire category would display the same image, an image that seemed to be randomly chosen from the database. Again, whenever we emailed them about this there was no response.

About 2 weeks ago, after they did an update on the system, a problem sprung up in almost every link from a product page where a forward slash was missing from the URL's. This is a major problem as customers can then not get back out of a product page without going back to the root address manually, or by using the back button. This is a big issue. When we had a meeting with them on a Friday, we were told it would be done by Monday and they would call us to confirm it was working properly.

We did not receive a call, and the problem still is not fixed.

This is very, very poor service and I do not think it is acceptable in any industry.

We have been speaking with them for a couple of months now about redesigning the website as the template has been the same for a while now. As of last week, when my boss wrote them a somewhat angry email about all of the problems with the website, they finally replied, after a couple of days, to tell us they were not going to fix the problems, as they were redesigning the website anyway, so they would just do that and sort out the problems then. This is all well and good, except that it has taken them a week to start to implement the new design, and now that they have started, it is full of glitches and they have not given us an ETA on when it will be all sorted out.

It is less than a month until Christmas and we have alot of customers through the website, so a working website is vital, especially at this time of year.

It's one thing to have a bit of a wait before things will be completed, but leaving us completely in the dark and not even acknowledging our complaints is no way to do business.

I wonder if they treat all of their customers with this much disrespect, or if it's only us since they knew our store owner prior to us starting up a website...

It is very frustrating not knowing if the company that is supposed to be fixing the problems has even received the problem note. However if it's something that won't take much effot on their part, they respond within an hour, which one can only assume means they get the problem emails, they just don't want to deal with it and thus behave as though they have not received them.

I'm not going to mention the name of the company, but if you are getting this treatment from a web design firm, you should be treated better.

Labels: design, internet, work

I have worked on a variety of websites using a variety of different systems.

As I have sub-contracted for multiple companies as well as my own freelance work, and in-house work, I have written website's from scratch using the latest standards in XHTML and CSS along with complimentary PHP work.

In addition, I have designed and developed website's based around numerous content management systems (CMS) and utilised Flash to add to the user experience of particular website's.

Below I have grouped the website's I have worked on by what system they are based on. Note that many of the Webtrix™ Technologies websites are based on a standardised template. Also note that this is a portfolio of websites I have worked on and as such, not all of the sites listed below were designed solely by me.

Assignment's and General Interest Project Websites

• TerraMusic (KIB103 Assignment 2 - Distinction)
  

Plain HTML/XHTML and CSS

• Kes Photography
• Blue Hills College (old website - inactive)
• LANBash (inactive)
• World of Warcraft Site Designer Application (inactive)

Ultralight by TerraMedia

• Ultralight Web Design Solutions Website
  

Joomla!™

• TerraMedia
• The Prodigy Project
  
• Australian Tonerider Review (old website - inactive)
• Powerhouse Music and Technology (old website - inactive)
  

ZenCart™

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