John Copley has been part of the surf scene since the sixties and now works as an agent for a large number of worldwide surf brands. Working with Random Badger I created a site to showcase the companies and products that JC can provide for you. The site is aimed at getting the user interested and encouraging them to get in touch. The site also contains a small profile about the man himself. ...
The URBANE project is a study of urban coastal defences. The website provides information about the project and those involved. The partners page has a Google map linked to an unordered list that acts as dual functionality to view more details on the partners. The overlay effect that I wrote for the partners list is utilised again in the image galleries. The site is built on HTML5 with some subtle use of CSS3. ...
Dr Michael Cunliffe is a fellow at the Marine Biological Association who specialises in Marine Microbial Biogeochemistry. The site has been kept clean and simple with the emphasis on Dr Cunliffe’s work.
The Blue Sound project aims to encourage people in the Plymouth area to use the ‘blue space’ around them. The website aims to involve local youth groups to participate in work groups with myself and the Blue Sound project officer to enable us to provide the users with a site that they can truly feel is theirs. The site uses HTML5 and CSS3, including CSS drop shadows, rounded corners and transitions. ...
Newquay based Fore Street Deli provides home-cooked deli food using the best Cornish ingredient, and selling a wide range of quality Cornish produce. Working with designer Random Badger the site aims to give a feel for being in the deli with it’s wood background and colour theme based on the shop exterior.
I’m really enjoying using CodeIgniter, it’s an excellent framework and has a side benefit of helping to structure your files neatly. I’ve been working on my first login form using it, and whilst there are lots of tutorials going through this common process I encountered a “problem” with the CodeIgniter sessions persisting when the user closed their browser. A bit of searching around and I came up with a few recommendations. ...
I’ve been playing around with PHP frameworks latley and have just started coding my first major project using CodeIgniter. I’ll post updates as I progress but roughly this project interacts with data from different organisations and acts as a central point for approval of records and the sharing of data.
A lot of the sites we do in work involve using a Google map, some are simple and just allow the user to choose a spot which populates input fields for latitude and longitude. Others contain large data sets and information about the point, which is normally displayed in one of the Google map bubbles. Using our standard library code for implementing a map and allowing the user to pick a latitude / longitude point IE6 was only displaying a grey background with the Google copyright. ...
Dr Nova Mieszkowska is a Fellow at the Marine Biological Association who specialises in Climate Change and Marine Biodiversity. Her pages were created to reflect her studies based on a colour palette that was derived from Dr Mieszkowska’s own photography. The site includes a jQuery lightbox plugin for images on information pages as well as the Galleria plugin for the gallery pages.
Ed Smith is a talented photographer based in Falmouth, Cornwall. The Ed Smith Photography website enables Ed to showcase his work and the user can to learn a bit more about him. Working with designer Random Badger the site has been kept clean and simple with the focus on Ed’s excellent work. In addition to the main site there is a blog, built on WordPress, where Ed can update users on his latest projects. ...