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I’ve worked on many projects, from complete builds, to development, to content, Information Architecture and user-interface design.

The website layouts were developed in order to have the main content to be displayed first, as viewed by a search engine spider, a text based browser, or a screen reader.

These sites should display acceptably in the main standards compliant browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc). In other cases, the sites should display acceptably and meaningfully.

Site Layouts

screen shot of Boots site

Boots Expert: Progressive enhancement

Javascript enhancement to pages, and CSS systems analysis, to tight accessibility requirements.

Case Study: Information Architecture

Several projects required me to create wireframes, interface designs and taxonomies in order to restructure large amounts of content. Here are some Information Architecture case studies.

screen shot of EST site

Energy Saving Trust: Ajax modules

Reskin work on existing coldfusion-driven modules, creating javascript to enhance the look of the output code. Ajax modules written to enhance HTML forms.

screen shot of DC site

Design Council: Complex Modular Site

A complex modular site using transparencies, and intricate CSS structure.

screen shot of Navman site

Case Study: CSS Systems Analysis

CSS systems analysis of designs for the site, followed by a complete site XHTML build with a view to modularity of the CSS.

screen shot of Coffee site

CSS Builds

CSS build for a static and dynamic HTML and XHTML sites. Accessible sites built to WCAG guidelines, to scrict DOCTYPEs and using table-free semantically marked up layouts.

screen shot of Mostly Maps web site

Case Study: End-to-end site build

Complete site build, content management, data cleansing, content-first layout, e-commerce, url rewriting, se/user friendly IA, accessible JavaScript alternatives, form validation.

screen shot of the K2 Extremes website

Case Study: CSS/XHTML and PHP

A CSS/XHTML build for a complex design, together with PHP development.

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