Patrick Dobson - My portfolio of work
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Content Managed Sites
Abbey Consultants
Abbey Consultants are a UK based business who provide environmental consultancy to the UK construction and home markets.
The website offers the following features:
• An easy to use contact form.
• A facility to capture email addresses for future newsletters.
• A clean and professional design.
• A integrated blog.
• An integrated 'announcements' system.
Clevedon School
The website for Clevedon School serves a dual purpose. It acts as a ‘portfolio’ for prospective students/parents who can use the site to find out about the school. It also acts as an information portal for existing students and parents.
The site features:
• An administration section allowing authorised staff members to update all aspects of the site
• ‘Latest news’ & ‘Announcements’ displays allowing the school to draw
attention to news items, announcements and content
• Rotating ‘Flash’ banners
• Administration features allowing authorised users to add news, edit pages, create newsletters & add remove whole sections of the site
Solar Trade Association
The Solar Trade Association is a representative vehicle for the UK renewable heating industry. The website serves a dual purpose having areas for members of the association and the general public. Members have areas that can be accessed via a username/password combination. The general public can use the site to find information about solar thermal technology, the principles behind the technology and suppliers or installers of systems.
The site also features:
• Multiple 'member' search options including searching by postcode, county and company type
• Specific areas for different sectors (e.g. homeowners, communities, industry)
• Multiple contact methods including a 'join the association' form which, on completion, automatically emails
relevant documentation to the given email address
• Latest news and events display both on the front page and in the side bar
• Full administration section for authorised users to edit the site
Office Star
Office Star is one of the biggest stockists of office stationary in the Forest of Dean.
The website features:
• A Wordpress based content management system allowing the site owner to update the site
• Integration with a third party suppliers database to offer products and secure ordering facilities
• Graphical interfaces for product browsing
• Transparent integration of external website content into the main site
• Site designed and implemented using PHP
• Downloadable content throughout the site
Park That Bike
Park That Bike are a UK based company who specialise in parking solutions for bicycles.
The website offers the following features:
• A content management system allowing the site owner to keep the content up to date.
• A facility to capture email addresses for future newsletters.
• An easy to use contact form.
• A clean and professional design.
• 'Captcha' functionality on the contact form, preventing automated spammers from using the form.
Shopping Sites
All Square Arts
All Square Arts is a not-for-profit company, set up to generate revenue for Art Shape. The site features a categorised shop and 'artist search'. The shop has the facility to offer 'unique' products which, once placed in a shopping basket, cannot be bought by anyone else. If not bought within an hour, they are made available again.
The site also features:
• Full administration of products by the site owner
• An automated mailing list
• Embedded videos
• Animated menus
• An integrated WordPress blog, styled to seamlessly match the main site
Crystal Healing Tools
Crystal Healing Tools is an ecommerce website selling healing crystals. It offers a full ecommerce solution for a crystal retailer.
The website includes:
• Full searching by: keyword, description, price & colour
• A checkout integration with Google Checkout™
• The ability to sell unique items
• A 'flash' splash display
• A featured items display
• An automated mailing list
• A full administration system to allow the site owner to keep the site up to date
Brochure Sites
North Lodge
North Lodge is an eco-friendly B&B in South West Wales.
The website features:
• A fresh design which reflects the 'green' ethos of the site owners
• A 'lightbox' based image gallery
• An easy to use contact form
• Bold and easy to read contact details on every page
PC Rescue
PC Rescue are a Forest of Dean based business offering Computer repairs and maintenance.
The website features:
• Animated 'flash' front page display
• Dynamic header images based on mouse button rollovers
• A fresh yet professional design and colour scheme
• Bold contact icons
• An easy to use contact form
• Downloadable PDF documents
• Embedded 'Google' location map
Severn Valley Cycles
Severn Valley Cycles is a bicycle shop based in Lydney in the Forest of Dean.
The website features:
• Pages for every range of cycles stocked
• A 'lightbox' based image enlargement throughout the site
• A 'latest news' section
• An embedded 'google' map
Dock Solutions
Dock Solutions are a Forest of Dean based specialist engineering company who provide access solutions for freight loading bays.
The website features:
• Flash based animations
• An easy to use contact form with anti-spam protection
• Embedded video content
• Drop down menus
• Custom made background which reflects the company focus
• Downloadable brochures throughout the site
Eco Camping
Eco Camping is a 'green', sustainable campsite in South West Wales.
The website offers the following features:
• Animated 'flash' header
• Easy to use contact form.
• Link to a personalised 'google' map.
• Original design.
This website was completed within 1 week of the original enquiry.
Farm Feed Systems
Farm Feed Systems is the UK's only manufacturer of Biomass Pellet Mills.
The website offers the following features:
• Easy to use contact form.
• Original design.
• Detailed product pages.
• Secure anti-spam 'captcha' facility on the contact page.
• Personalised browser icon
This website was completed within 2 weeks of the initial design meeting.
Journeyman Services
Journeyman Services are an ex-pat insurance company based in the Forest of Dean.
The website features:
• An interactive AJAX based travel insurance quotation engine
• Integration with SagePay for online billing
• Downloads section
• High-graphical yet quick loading design which reflects the company brand
Abbey Consultants
Abbey Consultants are a UK based business who provide environmental consultancy to the UK construction and home markets.
The website offers the following features:
• An easy to use contact form.
• A facility to capture email addresses for future newsletters.
• A clean and professional design.
• A integrated blog
• An integrated 'announcements' system
Web Applications
Business Carbon Workout
The business carbon workout is a carbon calculator specifically for businesses. It allows a business to enter up to ten years of energy billing details from which the workout calculates the carbon footprint of the business. Businesses also choose from list of business types which allows the calculator to 'split' the energy use into usage (e.g. heating, lighting etc.). Once data has been entered, the business can answer a series of questions about their premises. Once completed, the workout will give suggestions on how energy use can be reduced. All the information generated can be downloaded as personalised PDF documents.
The website features:
• A login facility to ensure only the company has access to their figures
• Selection of different business types to ensure accuracy
• Dynamic PDF generation
• Dynamic data charts (bar charts & pie charts)
• Lost password retrieval system
• The website was created in such a way as to make it easily portable to other websites with different branding applied
Carbon Workout
The carbon workout allows users to calculate their carbon footprint taking into account their houses, cars and air travel. It then produces downloadable PDF reports and saves the information so the workout can be revisited at a later date.
The website features:
• AJAX integration allowing seamless updating without moving between pages
• A professionally designed layout matching the parent site
• An administration area allowing authorised users to compile usage and CO2 saving data
• A “reminder’ facility which alerts users after three months have past
• Dynamic PDF generation
• Unobtrusive information 'pop-ups'
Park That Bike
Park That Bike is an interactive site, based around the Google Maps API, which allows site visitors to suggest cycle parking locations throughout the UK.
The website features:
• Integration of the Google Maps API
• Integration of the Google 'reverse geo-coding' API
• Pseudo 'AJAX' form manipulation using Javascript DOM scripting
• The whole process is carried out on one page without any reloading
• A secure backend to allow the site owner to check posted data and produce reports based on the database records
• Fully functional Google map with zooming, satellite & hybrid views forming the major interface for the site
• Integrated Facebook 'like' buttons