Large websites
These are sites of 250+ pages, many database-driven or within a CMS, that I have played a part in designing and/or developing. They are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent at the top. I have indicated my professional status for each site at the time of its creation.
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WellingtonNZ - Australia landing page
Website: WellingtonNZ Australia
Client: Positively Wellington Tourism
My professional status: contractor at Chrometoaster
A couple of months before undertaking a complete re-skin/rebuild of the site, Chrometoaster were asked to create a single new template for the Australia landing page (the point of arrival for Australian visitors). The template would temporarily sit within the existing chrome of the website, but the content would follow the design that was being finalised for the new version of the site. I was responsible for building the template in XHTML/CSS, incorporating existing jQuery effects and preparing it for integration into the existing CMS, as well as ensuring a very high level of e-government and accessibility compliance.
Master Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Inc
Website: Master Plumbers
Client: Master Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Inc
My professional status: independent web designer/developer
Master Plumbers had an old website that needed redesigning and integrating within a more user-friendly CMS. We identified three main sections of the site - Public, Trade and Members - which led to a four-colourway design solution. I was responsible for the initial quote, information architecture, site schematics, ongoing project management and client liaison, web design, HTML and CSS, jQuery, accessibility compliance, testing, content-loading, CMS training and ongoing support.
Ministry for the Environment
Website: Ministry for the Environment
Client: Ministry for the Environment
My professional status: independent web designer/developer
The 13,000-page Ministry for the Environment website was looking old and tired, and the Ministry wanted a medium-term website redesign solution that would allow them to keep their old legacy content, while bringing the look & feel up to date. The Ministry web team needed to be able to transfer their entire website into our new design and set of best-practice e-government compliant Dreamweaver templates as painlessly as possible, and the CSS also had to include matching styles for all their old content code. I was responsible for the initial quote, some information architecture, site schematics, ongoing project management and client liaison, HTML and CSS, jQuery and JavaScript, e-government and accessibility compliance, testing, site delivery and ongoing support.
Cavalier Bremworth
Website: Cavalier Bremworth
Client: Cavalier Bremworth
My professional status: contractor at DNA
This website represents the first roll-out of the new Cavalier Bremworth branding by DNA. My responsibility was to build a large set of template pages within a very tight timeframe and budget, and prepare them for integration into a custom-built .net CMS. The new site incorporates a very high level of interactivity for visitors considering purchasing a new carpet from the company, and therefore included a large amount of jQuery and Shadowbox programming, for which I was also responsible. It was the most technical site I had ever built, with an extremely steep learning curve when it came to extending my jQuery skills, which I really enjoyed.
WM Bamford & Co Ltd
Website: WM Bamford & Co Ltd
Clients: WM Bamford & Co Ltd
My professional status: independent web designer/developer
WM Bamford & Co Ltd is one of New Zealand's leading independent medical supply companies, and needed a new website which would reflect and complement their new print brochure - and which would allow potential customers access to their substantial product listings as well as providing information about Bamford's supply agencies and partners. I designed and built the site and also worked on project management, information architecture and site schematics, as well as creating dynamic functionality via jQuery and facilitating CMS integration.
Historic Places Trust - Our Properties
Website: HPT - Our Properties
Client: Historic Places Trust
My professional status: employee at Shift
The Historic Places Trust wanted a new website which focuses on their properties around the country that are open to visitors. The site includes detailed information about the Trust's places to visit, venue hire, events, exhibitions and tours, and includes an online store. I built 22 templates for the site in XHTML and pure CSS, and liaised closely with the team at Datacom who integrated the templates into the Sitecore CMS. I also wrote a comprehensive handover document for Datacom to facilitate integration of my templates and provided ongoing support to them during the integration process.
Read more about the Historic Places Trust - Our Properties project
NIWA
Website: NIWA
Client: NIWA
My professional status: employee at Shift
The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research wanted a completely new look to their website, which acts as a repository for their very large collection of research documents, photographic images and publications - as well as information about NIWA itself. The design is complex and multi-layered and required a range of dynamic graphical elements. I was responsible for building 28 templates for the site in XHTML and pure CSS, and liaising closely with the integration team at Squiz. I used jQuery to create the dynamic elements and also wrote a comprehensive handover document for Squiz to facilitate integration of my templates into MySource Matrix CMS.
Salvation Army
Website: Salvation Army
Client: Salvation Army
My professional status: employee at Shift
The Salvation Army (New Zealand, Fiji & Tonga Territory) wanted a new content-manageable website which would promote the organisation, provide information for people who either need its help or would like to join, and would also provide homepages for all the Army corps around the country. I was responsible for building 39 templates for the site in HTML and pure CSS, and liaising closely with our Expression Engine CMS developer during handover. We re-assessed the site at that point and identified a number of additional templates that were required, which I then designed and built.
NZWood (resources site)
Website: NZWood
Client: NZWood
My professional status: employee at Shift
The NZWood resources site is is the largest in a series of websites for the organisation, and its main focus. It provides wood-related resources, tools, research and case studies for a range of industries that use wood, and could be encouraged to use more - such as architects, interior designers, engineers, builders, surveyors and landscapers - as well as wood product retailers. I was responsible for building 14 templates for the site in HTML and pure CSS, and liaising closely with our Expression Engine CMS developer during handover. We also re-assessed the site at that point and identified additional templates that were required, which I then designed and built.
New Zealand Educated
Website: New Zealand Educated
Client: Education New Zealand
My professional status: employee at Shift
New Zealand Educated wanted a fun, compelling and informative website that would encourage overseas students to study in New Zealand. I built a set of 36 complex templates for the site in HTML and pure CSS, which were tested across a wide range of browsers and platforms and which achieved a high level of compliance with e-government accessibility guidelines.
NZ Cricket Membership Application
Website: web application
Client: New Zealand Cricket
My professional status: employee at Shift
In 2006 Shift developed an online database application for New Zealand Cricket to collect data online and use it effectively. Phase Two of the project involved expanding the application to include player stats, public access to data, and club websites. My job was to create new HTML pages based on those created in Phase One, interpreting the Phase Two schematics to incorporate the application's new functionalities. I also extended the page design across all the new templates.
Read more about the NZ Cricket Membership Application project
New Zealand Police
Website: police.govt.nz
Client: New Zealand Police
My professional status: employee at Shift
The New Zealand Police wanted to re-vamp their website without having to change much of the existing HTML. My job was to re-skin the site, as far as possible altering the CSS only. I also built a new homepage based on the existing HTML and navigation elements in the rest of the site, and advised the designer on which visual elements could be changed using CSS only.
The Gathering Archives
Website: The Gathering Archives
Client: me
My professional status: independent web designer/developer
In October 2006 I began creating, designing, building and writing The Gathering Archives website and accompanying WordPress blog, with the aim of becoming the authoritative source of information on the history and background of iconic New Zealand dance party, The Gathering. The site is divided into different sections for each of the six Gatherings, and includes facts & figures, media coverage, Gathering artwork, photos, video and film footage, Gatherer stories and maps of the venue for each party. The design for each section is based on the official Gathering artwork from that year.
WWF-NZ
Website: wwf.org.nz
Client: WWF-NZ
My professional status: employee at Shift
Shift donated some time to the Worldwide Fund for Nature New Zealand (WWF-NZ) in order that we could build them a better website than they could afford. The site aims to educate New Zealanders in the work that the organisation does, to encourage people to support WWF-NZ, and to take part in some of their conservation intiatives. I built a set of 17 templates for the site in HTML and pure CSS, and worked closely with our trainee developer to ensure that the templates would be easy to integrate into the Expression Engine CMS.
National Library of New Zealand
Website: National Library of New Zealand
Client: National Library of New Zealand
My professional status: employee at Shift
The National Library of New Zealand needed a new website to replace their old and outdated one. It was to be fully editable by the National Library's web team, and was to be integrated into a Plone CMS by 3months.com. My role was to build a full set of templates for the site in HTML and pure CSS. The site was a liquid layout with min-and max-width, needed to be absolutely consistent across a wide range of browsers and platforms, and had to achieve a high level of compliance with e-government accessibility guidelines.
Webweaver's World
Website: Webweaver's World
Client: me
My professional status: independent web designer/developer
A blog about my passions. May include some or all of the following: geek stuff (web design & development, CSS, accessibility, usability), environmental activism, my adopted home of New Zealand, international & green politics, gardening, cats, literature, rugby, and much more.
Ministry of Transport
Website: transport.govt.nz
Client: Ministry of Transport
My professional status: employee at Base Two
Base Two had carried out a complete redesign of the very large MOT site, and placed it within a CMS. My job, at the end of the project, was to complete the website and prepare it for go-live. This included bug-fixing of the HTML, pure CSS, CMS and JavaScript. It also included extensive browser testing.
NZHistory
Website: nzhistory.net.nz
Client: Ministry of Culture and Heritage
My professional status: contractor at Shift
The existing large information-rich NZHistory website needed a complete resdesign, which was carried out by Shift. My job was to translate the complex design into a pure CSS website, which would then be incorporated into a Content Management System. As part of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, the site exhibited a high level of accessibility, was built in valid XHTML and CSS, and passed accessibility tests levels 1 and 2 (and 3 where possible). It was supposed to be pixel-perfect in 7 different browsers on Mac and PC. I raised that to 13.
Land Transport New Zealand
Website: no longer online
Client: Land Transport New Zealand
My professional status: contractor at Shift
The LTNZ website (formerly Land Transport Safety Authority) had been through a number of different "looks" and had ended up with three different designs appearing across the site. In order to streamline and improve both the look and the information architecture, Shift redesigned the site, and passed it on to me to "re-skin". This means changing the existing CSS, but not the HTML, if possible. As a government website, it conformed to e-government guidelines, utilised validated HTML 4.01 Transitional and CSS, and maintained a consistent appearance across a range of browsers on Mac and PC.
Timeframes - National Library of New Zealand
Website: timeframes.natlib.govt.nz
Client: National Library of New Zealand
My professional status: contractor at Shift
The National Library of New Zealand wanted to update the huge Alexander Turnbull image database available online, so that users could more easily search the database, save and order images. I built a pure CSS website front-end, which was then integrated into the database. The site had a liquid layout with min-width, followed e-government guidelines with a very high level of accessibility, and was built in XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS. It was consistent across a total of 12 browsers in Mac and PC.
Living Heritage
Website: no longer online
Client: Living Heritage
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media
The projects on this site are added by schools using a template. Over time the site had become quite inconsistent, so I did an audit of the online and offline versions and ensured that these were exactly the same. I also tidied up various projects and updated the index pages.
Ngā Toi Online
Website: Ngā Toi Online
Client: Ministry of Education
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media
This large, constantly updated, bilingual site had reached a stage where the two halves were no longer a mirror of each other. Guided by an extensive paper edit I made alterations in XHTML to the content of virtually every page, most of which were in te reo.
Transpower
Website: transpower.co.nz
Client: Transpower
My professional status: employee at Origin Design
Transpower wanted a complete redesign of their existing site, which communicates a high level of technically complex and specialist information. I built a series of HTML templates for the new database-driven site, and created a Flash animation for the homepage.
Motor Trade Association
Website: mta.org.nz
Client: MTA
My professional status: employee at Origin Design
The Motor Trade Association needed a large database-driven website, divided into two parts - public and membership-only. It features a cartoon character, Bob, who adds a human element to the site. I built the templates and created a Flash animation for the homepage, as well as designing many of the pages myself, following the designer's look and feel.
M-co
Website: m-co.com
Client: M-co
My professional status: employee at Origin Design
M-co has a network of international websites managed by a central CMS. This large database-driven network was redesigned in 2003 and I carried out a range of projects including Flash, page building and Photoshop work.
Contact Energy
Website: mycontact.co.nz
Client: Contact Energy
My professional status: employee at Origin Design
Contact is a large database-driven business-to-consumer website and is fully integrated with the company's billing systems. I built the templates in highly robust HTML which were used by the programming team to build the website itself. Each template was complex, including large amounts of navigation and functionality, as well as being content-rich.
Fonterra
Website: fonterra.com
Client: Fonterra
My professional status: employee at Origin Design
The Fonterra website incorporated a public website (with large archive section), an intranet and a secure extranet (for externally-based contractors) and was updated every week, sometimes every day. I built, developed, managed and maintained the website which went through two complete redesigns before Fonterra took the project in-house.
TeachNZ
Website: teachnz.govt.nz
Client: Ministry of Education
My professional status: contractor at Base Two
The existing TeachNZ website needed to be completely rebuilt and restructured - with all-new content and with a double navigation structure utilising frames and popup navigation windows. I worked on the architecture and then built the site itself.
Wellington International Airport
Website: wellington-airport.co.nz
Client: Wellington International Airport
My professional status: contractor at Base Two
I carried out updates and alterations throughout the website as required (HTML content and graphics, PDFs).
Read more about the Wellington International Airport project
Kiwi Recovery Programme
Website: kiwirecovery.org.nz
Clients: Department of Conservation, Bank of New Zealand (sponsors), and Forest & Bird
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media and then independent web designer/developer
This is a join initiative between DoC, the Bank of New Zealand (who sponsor the programme) and Forest & Bird. I built and maintained this multi-award-winning framed website, with considerable design freedom in deeper levels of the site. Later I suggested areas within the site that could be developed, all of which I then researched, wrote, designed and built.
The Gathering
Website: no longer online
Client: The Gathering
My professional status: independent web designer/developer
The Gathering was New Zealand's largest and most well-respected annual dance party. I created, designed, wrote, built and maintained the 900-page multi-award-winning website, giving Gatherers as much information as possible about every aspect of The Gathering, as well as archiving previous parties.
Healthy Lifestyles
Website: no longer online
Clients: Wellington College of Education and the Cancer Society
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media
This Cancer Society-sponsored award-winning website promoted healthy lifestyles for kids. I worked closely with the content creator to design, develop and build a series of online school projects within the site.
Hillary Commission
Website: no longer online
Client: Hillary Commission
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media
I designed and built the Kids Go 4 It and Push Play sections, and maintained and developed the main multi-award-winning site. In 1999 the Hillary Commision wanted a compete overhaul of the site, which I carried out - including design and architecture, budgeting and timelining.
InterLink
Website: InterLink
Client: The British Council
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media
I developed, designed, built and constantly updated this multi-award-winning website for a ground-breaking project linking 12 pairs of schools in New Zealand and the UK, who worked for 6 months on a range of 70 projects using the internet for trans-global communication - and I also managed the InterLink project itself.
