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Travelodge

I produced training material for Travelodge Scotland that covered check-in, sales and customer satisfaction. Initially produced for one area, the finished product was rolled out across Scotland. The project included scripting and filming, copywriting, voiceover and audio design, graphics, editing and finishing.

Video Production, Copywriting

Intern Avenue

  • Intern Avenue

Worked closely with the Intern Avenue team, designing and developing their online recruitment platform that matches interns with businesses. Played a part in many aspects of the build. Featured on Dragons' Den, 2012

Website Design, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), jQuery. Associations: Pablo de la Peña (hellopablo)

Shortbread Ltd.

  • Shortbread

Designed and developed the Shortbread web application from the ground up. Now a self-sufficient content management facility, marketing tool and interactive social network, Shortbread has tens of thousands of members and thousands of short stories.

Website Design, Graphic Design (Adobe CS), LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), jQuery. Associations: Pablo de la Peña

Jane Gowans Jewellery Design

  • Jane Gowans

A nice, clean and simple custom built content management system for Scottish jewellery designer, Jane Gowans. A contemporary design wrapped around images that speak for themselves. The application houses my own blog plugin and e-mail subscription manager.

Website Design, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), jQuery. Associations: Ryan R Thompson (Rydo)

The White Ensign Association

  • White Ensign

Developed by the team at Shed Collective, The White Ensign Association's website is a robust, custom built content management framework and talent management tool.

Website Design, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), jQuery. Associations: Associations: Pablo de la Peña

Rupert Spira

  • Rupert Spira

Developed by the team at Shed Collective, the Rupert Spira website is a completely bespoke development comprising advanced ecommerce facilities and streaming content delivery network.

Website Design, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), jQuery. Associations: Associations: Pablo de la Peña

The Museum of Lost Interaction

  • MoLI
  • Grandad's Laptop
  • Dad's First Mobile
  • Granny's iPod

Exhibition website, branded and built for the 2006 Museum of Lost Interactions, Interactive Media Design, Dundee (Curated by Graham Pullin). The themes I developed for the website (and the themes of the exhibition) stuck with me and continue to exist in my branding to this day. The brand has also inspired future editions of the exhibition, with the following two utilising the logo, a similar palette and type. After the exhibition, Graham and I also designed a range of posters for use in external advertising.

Graphic Design (Adobe CS), Website Design. [3 x websites now offline]

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Castlesound Studios

  • Castlesound

I was tasked by the management team at Castlesound Studios in Edinburgh to design and build a photo-centric website to show off their top of the range recording facility. The website features my photography alongside some existing work - unfortunately I can't take credit for the 'best' ones, just the slate and recreation room shots!

Graphic Design (Adobe CS), Website Design, JQuery.

Milton Farm Lodges

  • Self Catering Perthshire

Luxury Scottish holiday lodges in Perthshire. Photography and print design, full web design and development including payment gateway integration and booking systems.

Photography, Print Design, Graphic Design (Adobe CS), Website Design, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

Rosemount Hotel

  • Pitlochry Hotel

Based around Shed Collective's development framework, Nails - the Rosemount Hotel website provides inventory and booking management, content management and basic payment gateway integration.

Website Design, Graphic Design (Adobe CS), LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), jQuery.

Gina MacLeod

  • Gina MacLeod

A basic but beautiful website with a nice clean design themed on nature for the Scottish singer/songwriter, Gina MacLeod. The graphics are based around Gina's debut album design - also developed in-house.

Graphic Design (Adobe CS), Website Design, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

Hillhaven Bed & Breakfast

  • Hillhaven

After staying at this 4 star accommodation whilst filming on location in Fortrose, I was asked by owners Stephen and Fiona to develop a website that would attract more custom. A year on and trade has increased notably thanks to a well built, search engine optimised website and some offsite search engine techniques. The site itself features content management and a simple availability checker.

Graphic Design (Adobe CS), SEO, Website Design, JQuery.

Hillhaven Executive Hires

  • Executive Hire

Design and development of web presence for private hire company who provide private Scottish tours, executive service and wedding car hire.

Graphic Design (Adobe CS), Website Design, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

Inchture Hotel

  • Inchture Hotel

This is the second revision of the Inchture Hotel website. Originally a large SEO focused Joomla! website, now scaled back to a nice clean (and still equally SEO-friendly) Wordpress installation. The website shows off some of my own photography as well as images taken by Matthew Scharf.

Graphic Design (Adobe CS), SEO, Wordpress, Website Design. Associations: Matthew Scharf.

Robin Pilcher

  • Robin Pilcher

Originally designed by Subtense, Robin's website was running on an old installation of Wordpress. Having taken control of hosting services, the site had to be rebuilt around up-to-date versions with some elements modified to suit. Nevertheless, the design remains a beautiful piece of work by the original designer!

Wordpress. Associations: Subtense.

The Pilcher Bank House Dornoch

  • Bank House

The Pilcher Bank House in Dornoch is offered as self-catering holiday accommodation by the Pilcher family. Once home to Rosamunde, the bank house is set in the heart of the town. This, the first website for the accommodation has a clean and easy to use interface, easy on-site search engine optimisation and content management facilities.

Graphic Design (Adobe CS), Website Design, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). [Website offline]

Beiderbeckes Bistro & Blue Note Bistro

  • Beiderbeckes

Websites and photography for a small chain of restaurants in Dundee. With emphasis on search engine optimisation and marketing, targeting key phrases for the local area. The websites also feature my own photography.

Website Design, Photography, Graphic Design (Adobe CS), LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), jQuery.

Perfect Wedding Video Branding & Printed Materials

  • Wedding Video

Brand development and print design for a business I started in 2006, Perfect Wedding Video Ltd. I set this events company up whilst at University, building it up for a few years then selling it on to family. It's still a successful business to this day! As well as the printed graphics, I developed numerous websites, motion graphics and media productions.

Graphic Design (Adobe CS), Video Production (Final Cut Studio), Web Design, Business Knowledge, Search Engine Optimisation.

The Occasionals

  • The Occasionals

Website currently in development for The Occasionals, one of Scotland's foremost Scottish ceilidh dance bands.

Website Design, Graphic Design (Adobe CS), LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), jQuery.

Jim Douglas DVD

  • Jim Douglas

DVD production, design, manufacture and online sales of the DVD. Jim Douglas is an artist, songwriter and poet from Scotland; this DVD documents his life and work.

Video, Print Design, Graphic Design (Adobe CS), LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), jQuery.

Billy Anderson

  • Billy Anderson

Website currently in development for Scottish musician and broadcaster, Billy Anderson. Also featuring some of my photography.

Website Design, Graphic Design (Adobe CS), LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), jQuery, Photography.

The Scottish Antique & Arts Centres

  • SAAC

I spent a number of years at The Scottish Antique & Arts Centre's Abernyte base during University as a sales assistant. During my time there I also began developing point of sale graphics, printed materials and working on web based marketing solutions such as electronic mailing list software and some rudimentary e-commerce concepts. After leaving the company to develop my own business I was tasked with building a bespoke e-commerce platform for a spin-off brand and a re-designed web site for the core business. These websites have yet to be put live unfortunately.

Graphic Design (Adobe CS), Photography, Website Design, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

Tales Fae The Raws CD Artwork

Graphic design and setting for CD manufacture, Tales Fae the Raws for Fife Homecoming 2010. A traditional design featuring historical photography, re-touched in-house. As well as designing for print, I arrange and oversee the outsourced manufacturing process for all CD and DVD production jobs.

Graphic Design (Adobe CS).

Donald Buick

  • Donald Buick

Musician Donald Buick

Graphic Design (Adobe CS), SEO, Wordpress, Website Design.

Freeland Barbour

  • Freeland Barbour

Freeland Barbour's website features some of my own photography and a basic

Graphic Design (Adobe CS), SEO, Wordpress, Website Design.

Jim Malcolm DVD

Involved in the planning, filming, editing and design of Jim's first DVD.

Graphic Design (Adobe CS), Photography, Videography.

Bruce Davies

  • Bruce Davies

Bruce's website is one of my earlier websites, based on an existing design to fit existing content. This website is a basic HTML design with some PHP and flash elements.

Website Design.

Gordon Pattullo

  • Gordon Pattullo

Gordon's website is based on a template and has a basic shop interface. As well as the website, I design his CD and DVD album artwork, work on his video productions and provide photography services.

PHP, Website Development.

Chocolate Fountains of Perth

  • Chocolate Fountains

One of the earlier websites I developed for Chocolate Fountains of Perth. Well optimised for search engines. As well as the simple branding and HTML website development, I created a very short advert for use on YouTube to promote their services.

Graphic Design (Adobe CS), SEO, Website Design, Photography, Videography.

Anne Pack

  • Anne Pack

One of the earlier websites I developed for Scottish singer/songwriter Anne Pack. A simple HTML website promoting Anne and her music.

Website Design.

Ciaran Dorris

  • Ciaran Dorris

One of the earlier websites I developed for Scottish singer/songwriter Ciaran Dorris. A simple HTML website promoting Ciaran and his music, complete with flash audio player. I also created the digipack artwork and manufacture for Ciaran's debut album, Chasing Dreams down a Dirt Road.

Website Design, Flash.

Dabbling with Directories

  • Guide Book
  • Dundee Plumbers

I spent a little while dabbling with directories and search engine optimisation. I haven't really done much with these websites, but they are a little ongoing experiment.

Website Design, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), SEO.

Cursillo in Scotland

  • Cursillo

I took this project on while at University for lecturer Dr Annalu Waller as a goodwill gesture and for the experience. I created a fully blown content management system from scratch that includes a file manager and a members database, complete with authentication system etc.

Website Design, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).