Web
Carl Buck Magician
Carl Buck already had his website created by printing.com, but after 4 years Carl approached me to help bring the site a new lease of life.
With a great colour scheme and style already there it was easy for me to add a few elements, ideas and new features such as a rotating banner on the homepage.
Carl is a fantastic close up magician and I wanted to create a site that gave Carl the justice he derserves. My idea was to make the site more fun and lighthearted in contrast to the more corporate and practical look from before.
Things like pop up playing cards for the navigation and brightly coloured graphics draw in the user more and conveys Carl's personality better
The Crown Pub Old Dalby
The Crown Inn had very little web presence when they approached me - just a linked page on the the castle rock brewery site. With the amazing location, fantastic food and services they were in desparate need to create a site that would showcase their pub and their brillant offers.
I created a new branding as well as the website and I tried to use subtle colours and classic fonts to capture the history of the place.
This was another site that the client wanted the ability to update themselves long after the website was complete so I tried to keep the site simple yet elegant whilst building to strict W3C standards.
Club Helsinki / Rainbow and Dove / Dover and Castle
Indigo pubs and bars are regular customers at Printing.com. So it made sense that we would do their website for them as well. In fact the brief was to create sites for all their pubs and pubs.
Indigo pubs and bars own some of the largest gay venues in Leicester and the owners had stong opinions on what they wanted the website to achieve and look like. From Facebook plug-ins to integrated flash animations it was clearly going to be a huge project for me to complete on my own.
The first objective was to get Club Helsinki's website up and running by the opening night, then using the same wireframe create the other sites but change the content and colours.
Mattinata.co.uk
Bruce Duncan and Geoff Tooley were starting a new business and approached me to help them promote themselves. My task was to create a corporate identity and website for potential clients to use to see what they were about and contact them.
With the logo I when through various stages of research and development before we reached a final outcome which explained who they were with style and class.
I then tried to replicate this theme onto the website making it clear and simple to navigate around the site as well as it looking professional and modern.
Another requirement for the site was the music player that showcased there musical talents. This was created in Flash and plays several of their signature songs in a playlist.
Quorn FC.com
This freelence job started when I was approached by the secretary of the club asking if I could revamp their existing website. My brief was to give it a consistent theme and one that was in keeping with the colours and passions of the club.
Being a popular site that was frequently visited by a variety of users, it was also important to make it as accessible as possible. As well as that I also has to make the site easy to update as the secretary would be making regular changes to the content and he knew very little about web design.
The design is original and created completely by my self; it was coded using mainly HTML and CSS with some small elements of flash. It meets the standards set by the W3C and also has additional accessibility features to help on standard users.