Key Features

• User account system using OAuth
• Created from scratch using only boilerplate and plugins
• Basic Social Networking
• Image Uploading

Description

The client's brief was to create a basic social network website for members of an existing community. Designs, legal, moderation and graphical work was handled by the client, while I handled all the development and server administration.
This was the first time I had ever taken on a project with this scope so had to learn some of the required skills as I progressed. The biggest challenge was when the design and scope of features would change requiring existing code to be replaced.
It was the first time I had used a build system like Gulp to handle automatic processing of assets. I also used dependency managers like Bower, NPM and Composer to handle the many required libraries.

It was the biggest project I have ever undertaken with over 170 tasks on our project management system.
It has now launched and is starting to build a user base.

Key Features

• Made in a team of 3
• Was created to show the results of our research
• Themed like the game Minecraft which featured in our research
• Uses jQuery for extra interactivity

Description

The brief required a website to be created to show the findings of our research study. The study was investigating 'The effect of different controllers in a 3D game world.'
The game world we utilized for the study was Minecraft, so we decided to make a Minecraft themed website to make our research more appealing than a typical academic website.
I handled the development of the website, while another member of the team (Jamie Slowgrove) handled the design.

Other Team Members

• Jamie Slowgrove - Designer
• Harry Friend - Researcher

Key Features

• Website for a computer repair business
• Simple semi-responsive website
• Multi-stage contact form

Description

The client wanted a very simple website that allowed their customers to be able to provide details of their computer issues that generated a formatted email output. I was the sole web developer, the client handled design and graphical work. I used very early responsive concepts to try and make the website semi responsive, however this site was created before frameworks like Bootstrap were commonplace so doesn't perform as well.

*Version available through link is a mirror as original no longer exists, so may not perform as well. Some information has also been removed. Form works but routes to my testing email.