Medium-sized websites
These are the sites of 50-250 pages 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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Bamford Medical
Website: Bamford Medical
Client: WM Bamford & Co Ltd
My professional status: independent web designer/developer
Following the successful launch of the Bamford website, we were asked to create a companion website, Bamford Medical, which would allow the company to sell a selection of their medical products online. The templates and CMS backend of the new site are based on the original Bamford site, with a completely different look and feel so that they are easily distinguishable from one another. I was responsible for the initial quote, information architecture, ongoing project management and client liaison, web design, HTML and CSS, jQuery, testing, training, QA and ongoing support.
Holmes Consulting Group
Website: Holmes Consulting Group
Client: Holmes Consulting Group
My professional status: independent web designer/developer
The international architecture firm Holmes Consulting Group asked for a completely new photography-centered design, new HTML/CSS templates, and a new CMS, which would be populated with all-new content. I was responsible for the initial quote, information architecture, site schematics, ongoing project management and client liaison, web design, HTML and CSS, jQuery, testing, putting together the skeleton site in Silverstripe, training, QA and ongoing support.
Office of Film & Literature Classification - information for students
Website: OFLC - information for students
Client: Office of Film & Literature Classification
My professional status: independent web designer/developer
The OFLC wanted a new website aimed at students doing projects on censorship in New Zealand. The website needed to be accessible, e-govt compliant, and the design had to appeal to young people. I was responsible for the initial quote, information architecture, site schematics, ongoing project management and client liaison, web design, HTML and CSS, jQuery, e-govt accessibility compliance, testing, building the skeleton site using Dreamweaver templates, training, QA and ongoing support.
Environmental Protection Authority
Website: Environmental Protection Authority
Client: Ministry for the Environment
My professional status: independent web designer/developer
Following our successful redesign of the Ministry for the Environment website, we were asked to design and build a website for the new Environmental Protection Authority. The HTML would be based on the MfE Dreamweaver templates within a completely different design, and we were also asked to build and content-code the initial 77-page website. The HTML/CSS needed to be best-practice e-government compliant and the site was to be tested for accessibility once it was built. I was responsible for the initial quote, information architecture, site schematics, ongoing project management and client liaison, HTML and CSS, jQuery, e-government and accessibility compliance, site build and content-coding, testing, site delivery and ongoing support.
Read more about the Environmental Protection Authority project
Optimation
Website: Optimation
Client: Optimation
My professional status: independent web designer/developer
Optimation's existing website was looking old and tired, and no longer represented the company as well as it could. In contrast to the old website, which was largely passive and not well integrated with Optimation's other marketing activities, the new site needed to work much more actively as well as being an interactive space between the company and its clients - and it had to be designed to enable busy clients to get what they need in the minimum time possible. I was responsible for the initial quote, information architecture, site schematics, ongoing project management and client liaison, HTML and CSS, jQuery, accessibility compliance, testing, QA, CMS training and ongoing support.
Discovery Bay International School
Website: Discovery Bay International School
Client: Discovery Bay International School
My professional status: employee at Shift
Hong Kong-based Discovery Bay International School wanted a new website which would become a central part of school life, showcasing class work and keeping parents and students up-to-date on school news and events. They also wanted the site to inform and encourage parents of potential students to choose Discovery Bay. My job was to build a set of 12 templates and prepare them for integration by a Shift colleague into the Expression Engine CMS.
Read more about the Discovery Bay International School project
Clean Edge
Website: not yet online
Client: Clean Edge
My professional status: employee at Shift
Clean Edge is a new online business which showcases the work of New Zealand artists and allows visitors to purchase their paintings online. My job was to build a set of 23 templates which were then incorporated into the Expression Engine CMS by a colleague at Shift. The site is very graphic-rich and incorporates a number of dynamic visual effects which I created using the script.aculo.us JavaScript library, which I taught myself to use.
New Zealand String Quartet
Website: NZSQ
Client: New Zealand String Quartet
My professional status: employee at Shift
The New Zealand String Quartet wanted a new, easy-to-edit website, in which they could promote themselves and allow fans to find out where they were playing, view photos, read reviews, buy recordings and support or sponsor the quartet. We recommended a WordPress website, with the project split into two phases. My responsibility in phase 1 was to build a set of HTML/CSS templates, which were integrated into WordPress by a colleague at Shift. In phase 2 I added a range of new sections and widgets, and was responsible for integrating the new templates myself, as well as wrangling with the WordPress PHP.
Office of Film & Literature Classification
Website: OFLC
Client: Office of Film & Literature Classification
My professional status: employee at Shift
The Office of Film & Literature Classification needed a new website which they could edit and update themselves. They decided that a templated Dreamweaver site would suit their needs well. The OFLC is a government department, so this information-rich site had to be fully accessible and e-government compliant. My job was to build them a full set of Dreamweaver templates, create a basic site from these and train the OFLC staff how to edit text and add new pages to the site. Later on I provided client support, making larger-scale changes to the live site and working alongside their web editor to show them the best ways to develop their website in the future.
Read more about the Office of Film & Literature Classification project
SmartMovez
Website: SmartMovez
Client: NZ Transport Agency
My professional status: employee at Shift
The NZ Transport Agency wanted a website that would act as as a one-stop-shop for partners and organisations that work with them. I was responsible for building 13 highly accessible and e-govt compliant templates for the site in HTML and pure CSS, and to liaise closely with the CMS development team at Squiz to ensure that the incorporation of my templates into the CMS was as easy as possible for them.
NZWood (corporate site)
Website: NZWood (corporate site)
Client: NZWood
My professional status: employee at Shift
NZWood wanted a corporate website which would be the first in a series of sites, and deals mainly with information, news, and media releases about NZWood - an industry-wide programme designed to encourage the use of wood in New Zealand. My job was to build 19 templates for the site in HTML and pure CSS, and to liaise closely with our Expression Engine CMS developer to ensure that the incorporation of my templates into the CMS ran smoothly.
KiwiSaver
Website: KiwiSaver
Client: IRD
My professional status: employee at Shift
Shift designed and built the KiwiSaver website in 2006, and the second phase, which was when I joined the project, was to enable online transactions. My job, together with my colleague Ross Howard, was to style a full set of interactive KiwiSaver portlets with IRD styling and to tweak and bug-fix portlets which had already been integrated into the system. The job entailed working alongside the development team, working directly on the servers at IRD. In addition I built two new static HTML pages, and designed and built a third page.
Tourism New Zealand intranet
Website: intranet (not accessible to the public)
Client: Tourism New Zealand
My professional status: employee at Shift
Shift has an ongoing relationship with Tourism New Zealand, which has resulted in four Webby nominations and two Webby awards over the past four years. In addition to the TNZ website, Shift also provides the TNZ team with an intranet, run on the Shado CMS. TNZ wanted a new look and feel for their intranet in four different colourways, while retaining the existing HTML and CMS as far as possible. My job was to re-skin a number of the master templates, by changing the CSS, rebuilding the header and footer HTML, and building an entirely new homepage.
Legal Services Agency
Website: Legal Services Agency
Client: Legal Services Agency
My professional status: contractor at Shift
The Legal Services Agency is responsible for helping people access justice, by funding legal aid, initial criminal legal services and community law centres, providing direct representation through the in-house service, the Public Defence Service, and producing law-related education and information. I was responsible for building a set of 17 templates (utilising three colourways for different sections of the site) for the website, which was then handed over to their existing CMS team for integration into a content management system.
Buy Kiwi Made
Website: buykiwimade.govt.nz
Client: Ministry of Economic Development
My professional status: employee at Shift
The Ministry of Economic Development wanted a set of template pages for the new Buy Kiwi Made website, utilising existing HTML pages from the MED website. My job was to assess the existing HTML/CSS in order to provide guidelines for our designer, re-skin the HTML pages by changing the CSS to create the Buy Kiwi Made site, and build a number of new templates using the existing HTML as a starting-point. The templates were then handed back to the MED in-house CMS team for re-integration into their content management system.
Shift
Website: Shift
Client: Shift
My professional status: employee at Shift
Shift's new-look website was a long time coming, mainly because Shifties are always working on somebody else's website! I was part of the team that finally got the chance to complete it and get in online. My job was to complete the HTML/CSS build of the 10 templates used in the site, using best practice techniques and ensuring that the site met or exceeded e-government accessibility guidelines.
myVictoria
Website: myVictoria
Client: Victoria University
My professional status: employee at Shift
Victoria University wanted a redesign for their existing portal, used by students and staff. Shift created two different designs, which could be alternated as the University required. My job was to re-skin the portal by changing the stylesheets for the channels and iFrames which made up the elements within the portal. I could not change any of the HTML, as this was generated automatically by the system.
Open Cloud
Website: opencloud.com
Client: Open Cloud
My professional status: employee at Shift
Open Cloud needed an editable website without the expense of a full CMS. The company had commissioned a design for the site, and wanted Shift to build it. I built the site using Dreamweaver templates, so that the client (who had some knowledge of basic HTML and CSS) would be able to edit the site in the future. I partially content-loaded the site and handed it over to the client to finish, providing technical support throughout this process.
VOCO
Website: voco.co.nz
Client: VOCO
My professional status: employee at Base Two
VOCO (formerly i-solutions) was re-branding and needed a new website to go with the new name. They contracted two companies to work on the project - a design company (inexperienced in web design) and Base Two (to do the build and incorporation into the CMS). My role was to build the site in HTML and pure CSS and, after it was incorporated into the CMS, to complete last-minute changes and oversee go-live. I also project-managed the final phase and mentored my colleague who was learning HTML/CSS.
Land Information New Zealand
Website: linz.govt.nz
Client: Land Information New Zealand
My professional status: independent web designer/developer
LINZ wanted to redevelop and add new content to the Mariner's section of the LINZ website, which was housed outside the main site, and is not part of the CMS.
After I completed this project, I was retained as an e-government expert to advise on the most effective way of converting PDFs to web pages - and how to create Word documents in the future which can more easily be converted to accessible web pages. I subsequently designed and developed 11 subsites which house LINZ's most-requested key documents - including the LINZ Statement of Intent and the Annual Report.
Social Studies Exemplars
Website: Social Studies Exemplars
Client: Ministry of Education
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media
The Social Studies Exemplars website required PDF versions of each exemplar. I made these by transferring the content of each exemplar into a Freehand file and laying out the content in the most efficient way possible, and then exporting the files as PDFs. An important part of the process was extensive proof-reading to ensure that each XHTML page was exactly replicated in the Freehand file.
Health & PE Exemplars
Website: Health & PE Exemplars
Client: Ministry of Education
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media
The Health & PE Exemplars website required PDF versions of each exemplar. I made these by transferring the content of each exemplar into a Freehand file and laying out the content in the most efficient way possible, and then exporting the files as PDFs. An important part of the process was extensive proof-reading to ensure that each XHTML page was exactly replicated in the Freehand file.
Gifted and Talented Students
Website: Gifted and Talented Students
Client: Ministry of Education
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media
This site needed a major update and overhaul, with the addition of an online version of the Minstry of Education handbook Gifted and talented students: Meeting their needs in New Zealand schools, and related online reading material. I designed the site as part of CWA's Te Kete Ipurangi portal website, which is built in XHTML/XML and CSS. I also did some of the development of the new site.
Claremont Estate
Website: claremont-estate.com
Client: Claremont Estate
My professional status: contractor at Oryx Technologies
The existing website required a complete overhaul, redesign and redevelopment to reduce and refine the large amount of text on each page. I rebuilt the site and streamlined the CSS styles and includes sitewide. I also made a subsite based on the client's PowerPoint presentation and added a Flash header to each page.
Three Rs of Diversity
Website: no longer online
Client: Ministry of Education
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media
This site was built in XHTML/XML within Te Kete Ipurangi's CSS-only template. I made extensive client alterations to the code by hand and validated the site for XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
Thonet
Website: thonet.co.nz
Client: Thonet
My professional status: employee at Origin Design
This redesign of an existing site required a logical, straightforward way to arrange a large number of catalogue-type gallery pages. The site detailed many different items of furniture, and was managed via Origin's Grand Central CMS. I developed and built the homepage Flash animation and the HTML templates.
Meadow Fresh Rainy Day Boredom Buster
Website: no longer online
Client: Mainland Milk
My professional status: employee at Origin Design
Rainy Day was a subsite of Meadow Fresh's main site, and gave kids many ideas for fun activities to do on a rainy day - both on-line and offline. I built and maintained the website, and created the Flash animations. Using my experience as a primary teacher I also wrote and developed new kids' activities for the site.
Meadow Fresh Breakfast with the Stars
Website: no longer online
Client: Mainland Milk
My professional status: employee at Origin Design
This was a subsite of the main Meadow Fresh website and promoted the annual schools' Breakfast with the Stars competition sponsored by Meadow Fresh. I built and developed/maintained the original website, including a Flash animation on the homepage.
Read more about the Meadow Fresh Breakfast with the Stars project
Meadow Fresh
Website: meadowfresh.co.nz
Client: Mainland Milk
My professional status: employee at Origin Design
The Meadow Fresh website included a database-driven PHP products section and an interchangeable set of Flash animations. It featured animated characters and was aimed at families and kids. The homepage was also used to promote sub-sites such as Rainy Day. I built, developed and maintained the website and Flash elements.
Eichardt's Private Hotel
Website: eichardts.co.nz
Client: Eichardt's
My professional status: employee at Origin Design
Eichardt's is an exclusive private hotel, which uses its website to reach its international market - including enabling visitors to book online. I built the website following a design from Origin. We took our time with this site, as we wanted to create something as beautiful and elegant as Eichardt's itself, which would showcase the hotel as one of the best in New Zealand.
M-co Design Standards
Website: intranet
Client: M-co
My professional status: employee at Origin Design
The M-co "family" of websites includes a number of very different-looking sites, all based on the same structural template. I built this site, which is intended for intranet use, and allows M-co to keep track of all their design standards. It covers the look & feel of every M-co site and allows webmasters to update any M-co site whilst maintaining design and brand consistency.
ProtectNZ
Website: no longer online
Client: Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries
My professional status: employee at Origin Design
ProtectNZ wished to provide online Biosecurity information specifically targeted to different user groups. I built a series of templates for the new Biosecurity website, following a design by Origin. The templates were then used to create a fully dynamic website which can easily be updated by the Biosecurity team.
Icebreaker
Website: icebreaker.co.nz
Client: Icebreaker
My professional status: employee at Origin Design
The Icebreaker website reflected Origin's ground-breaking graphic design for their clothing catalogue and showcased Icebreaker's new collections. I built and maintained the website, adding the latest collection each season. I also built the secure dealer area, which allowed retailers around the world to download Icebreaker ads and brand components.
Ministry of Transport
Website: mot.govt.nz
Client: Ministry of Transport
My professional status: contractor at Origin Design
The Ministry of Transport needed an accessible website which would house a large amount of information and which could disseminate that information easily. I built the site following an existing Origin design, and advised the team on the technicalities of designing for the web. I also sourced, integrated and programmed an effective search engine for the site.
Origin Design
Website: Origin Design
Client: Origin Design
My professional status: employee at Origin Design
Origin's website serves as a showcase for both their web and print design, and we completely redesigned and rebuilt it once a year to keep it fresh and to try out new ideas. I developed the existing Origin site, and brought an added level of technical expertise and creative input to each new redesign.
Victoria University Graduate School of Business and Government
Website: vuw.ac.nz/sog
Client: Victoria University Wellington
My professional status: contractor at Mission Hall
Victoria University had developed their very large website around a Visual Basic web-based publishing solution designed for use by VUW staff. I built a new subsite for the Graduate School, following the design created by Mission Hall. This involved creating highly robust templates for pages which became part of the publishing solution.
Read more about the Victoria University Graduate School project
WebWeaver Productions
Website: WebWeaver Productions
Client: me
My professional status: independent web designer/developer
Commissioned, designed, architecture-d, developed, built, written, edited and project-managed by me. The site is designed to be fully accessible, is written in valid HTML 4.01 Transitional and CSS, has been fully tested and displays consistently across a wide range of browsers in Mac and PC. I've built it using templates and Dreamweaver library items so that in the future I can easily update it and make alterations.
Wai 100%
Website: wai100.com
Client: Minaaka
My professional status: contractor at Base Two and then independent web designer/developer
Māori electronica duo Minaaka wanted a fresh and groovy website where they could showcase their music and their artistic vision. I designed and built this promotional site for them. Some of the site was in te reo, the rest in English and it included mpg video and mp3 audio files.
Rudd Watts & Stone
Website: rws.co.nz
Client: Rudd Watts & Stone
My professional status: contractor at Base Two
I maintained the website, which had been designed and developed by Base Two, on an ongoing basis.
Playmarket
Website: playmarket.org.nz
Client: Playmarket
My professional status: contractor at Base Two
I carried out maintenance as requested by the client, and did some redesign and streamlining of the existing website, which had grown somewhat difficult to manage.
Lungfish
Website: lungfish.co.nz
Client: Health Sponsorship Council - Smokefree
My professional status: contractor at Base Two
Lungfish is the youth brand of Smokefree New Zealand. We rebranded the Lungfish website, targeting its market directly with a very funky, experimental and fresh image and navigation/architecture design, which I built and project-managed with the Base Two team.
Te Rauparaha
Website: Te Rauparaha
Clients: National Library of New Zealand, Ngati Toa, and the Ministry of Education
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media
The National Library wanted to develop their te reo online education resources, and chose the story of Te Rauparaha to begin. I designed the architecture and oversaw the development of this site, which utilised the taonga of the Turnbull Collection to illustrate the story.
APEC Classroom Online
Website: no longer online
Client: APEC
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media
APEC New Zealand needed to develop this site, which was aimed at teachers who wanted to examine APEC with their students prior to the 1999 APEC conference. I maintained the site, repaired broken links and also added small sections to complete the project.
WOMAD
Website: womad.co.nz
Client: The Edge™ (for WOMAD)
My professional status: independent web designer/developer
1998 was the first year that a full-scale WOMAD festival was held in New Zealand. They needed an attractive and accessible site that would tell the world about WOMAD Aotearoa. I designed and built this award-winning website, which could be easily added to and updated in the runup to the 1998 event.
Health Action
Website: healthaction.org.nz
Client: Health Action
My professional status: independent web designer/developer
Nelson-based health advocacy group Health Action, who had absolutely no experience of the web, wanted a website which they could utilise as one of their outreach tools for youth. I designed and built this youth-oriented site, which included a database listing a wide range of health resources in the local region.
New Zealand Olympic Committee
Website: olympic.org.nz
Client: New Zealand Olympic Committee
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media
The New Zealand Olympic Committee wanted a new website online in time for the Nagano Winter Olympics. I built and maintained this award-winning site once the design was completed by another member of the CWA team. I also undertook daily updating which was required within a very tight timeline during the Nagano games.
Whitireia Polytechnic
Website: whitireia.ac.nz
Client: Whitireia Polytechnic
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media
Whitireia wanted to showcase the courses offered by the Polytechnic. I built this award-winning site once the design was complete. My work included development of the site into deeper information-rich levels, and development of the design within these levels.
New Zealand Council for Economic Research
Website: nzcer.org.nz
Client: NZCER
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media
I maintained and regularly updated this information-rich website, following an existing design.
Read more about the New Zealand Council for Economic Research project
EEO Trust
Website: eeotrust.org.nz
Client: EEO Trust
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media
The EEO Trust were new to the web and wanted an easily-navigated information-rich website, which I designed and built. The site communicated what the EEO Trust was about, and how it could be of benefit to employers.
British Council
Website: britcoun.org.nz
Client: The British Council
My professional status: contractor at CWA New Media
The British Council required that its websites around the world adhere to the standard British Council website design, according to strictly-specified design guidelines and templates. I built and regularly updated the New Zealand version.
