Stocktips.com design

Before venturing off to travel around the United States recently, I was asked to create a website for Stocktips.com – a group of young industry professionals looking to provide a fresh prospective on investing in stocks.

Stocktips were looking for a clean, professional and engaging WordPress driven blog with an emphasis on utilising social media to get their information out there and shared with the world.

The website uses responsive web design techniques to allow the website content to fit comfortably into any browser size (and mobile devices) as well as many of WordPress latest features to allow for StockTips to concentrate on their content and have the website take as much of the legwork out of content update as possible.

You can view the development version of the website by clicking here.

MoreVibrant Homes

The website I have designed and developed for MoreVibrant Homes has now left the safety of the dock and is sailing out valiantly into the internety-sea.

The website has been in development on and off for a few months while the client finalised copy, sourced photography and generally sorted everything out to get their eCommerce store up and running and will no doubt be tweaked and improved as time goes on.

MoreVibrant specialise in designing and producing fresh, zesty (and vibrant) product to liven up your home and are keen to push the social edge as much as possible, creating an online community for home lovers, rather that simply an online outlet.

Techniques such CSS3, jQuery and @font-face (a technique for using non-traditional fonts on the web) were used heavily to give the website a modern feel.

You can have a browse around the website by clicking here.

Qwota

Recently I decided I would free up some time to work on a little experimental website I’d been thinking of called Qwota.

The concept behind Qwota is to provide a method of collecting and displaying people’s favourite and most inspiring ‘one-liners’, whether that be a lyric from a song, a line from a film, a snippet from a newspaper or just… anything that excites.

Each quote comes with further information about who said it, when they said it, and hopefully a interesting link to where people can find out more information on the text. Also, as a finder’s fee, contributors can include their own name and website address to each quote they add. If people like and decide to vote for their contributed quote, then they and their quote can sit pretty at the top of either the Popular Quotes or Top Contributors leaderboard.

Qwota was made using HTML5 Boilerplate, CSS3, jQuery UI,Modernizr, Quicksand plugin,WordPress, and with help from the kindly Stackoverflow community.

You can view the Qwota website by clicking here.

Threepenny Editor

After recently completing the design and build work for The Threepenny Editor, I’ve now put the website live on the internets.

The Threepenny Editor specializes in editing fiction and literary nonfiction. We provide copyediting, manuscript critiques, developmental editing, and mentorship. If you plan to self-publish, explore the site to learn about our many design services. Best of all, we offer free sample edits, and without exception, great editing.

The client wanted to keep the typewriter theme from their previous website design as well as exude a retro and boutique feel, staying approachable whilst looking back the golden age of print.

Techniques such CSS3, jQuery and @font-face (a technique for using non-traditional fonts on the web) were used heavily to give the website a more modern feel.

Paperhouse Lettings.co.uk

Today, I’ve put the website I designed and built for Paperhouse Lettings live for the interweb’s perusal.

Paperhouse Lettings is an online letting agency that uses its website to reach potential landlords and tenants and PayPal to recover service fees, so if you’re looking to let your property, Paperhouse Lettings can make it easy!

Paperhouse Lettings were looking a simplisitic, yet professional looking website that would gain the trust of potential clients.

Techniques such CSS3 and @font-face (a technique for using non-traditional fonts on the web) were used heavily to give the website a more modern feel.

Visit Paperhouse Lettings

AlbinoMosquito is alive.

The website I’ve designed and built for AlbinoMosquito is now live and ready to great you with a big smiley face.

AlbinoMosquito™ are a leading force in providing creative visual solutions to everything from music videos to gigs to corporate events.

Their background:
Albino Mosquito is a visual arts collective which was started in Manchester (UK) 2002. Founders Richard Ramchurn (painter), Rachel Livingstone (sculptor) and Jonathon McGrath (playwright) set up AlbinoMosquito as a series of exhibitions to showcase Manchester artists. People moved on, followed their own career path. Richard kept the name alive by VJing, directing music videos and running an electronica night. In early 2010 Mauro Camal joined forces to relaunch AlbinoMosquito as a fully fledged production company.

You can visit their website and stuff here: AlbinoMosquito.com

Bernisson France - Now Live

The website I designed and built for Bernisson France – that picturesque 7 bedroomed home in France (who’s have guessed) is now live and available through a link somewhere on this page.

Bernisson France intro:

Bernisson is a 7 bedroomed property that can also be split into 2 seperate houses as 3 and 4 bedroomed self-contained accommodation. Bernisson is located 2kms from the beautiful Bastide town of Monsegur which is just inside the borders of the Gironde and close to the Dordogne and the Lot et Garonne, just 15 minutes from the Autoroute and an hour to Bordeaux Airport or 40 mins from Bergerac Airport.

The website uses all the usual suspects; XHTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, WordPress and Flash. It also has a nice little Feedback page to leave nice comments.

Have a browse of the website here – www.bernisson-france.co.uk.

What's Your Problem?

This past week I have been redesigning and rebuilding an old website that I made called What’s Your Problem? It is now live for you to play with.

What’s Your Problem? is an experimental and irreverent website I have made whose purpose is to provide random diagnosis to the mental-ailments of the user.

It’s my hope that people will maybe enjoy the surreal humour of the random diagnoses and decide to have a go at writing their own, which they can do by using the ‘Write Your Own Diagnosis’ form.

The website makes use of the WordPress commenting capabilities and blends them into a custom PHP / MySQL random call out. JQuery was used to add a bit of interest to the sliding diagnoses, and CSS3 was used to style them.

I decided to base the design of the website on a typical 1970s theme, beards and all. I’m not 100% sure why.

You can view the website and receive a free diagnosis by clicking here.

This website is ALIVE!

Ghosthorses (no.4), the website you’re looking at and my web design portfolio, is now live and available on the big internet thing.

It took a while longer than the last few to design and build because it’s quite a bit more complicated, but hopefully… it doesn’t look complicated, as, it’s supposed to be friendly looking.

I would be really, really pleased if you were to look around the website and let me know if the website looks and works correctly with whatever monitor size you use, as well as your choice of browser and your operating system.

Just something like: “Looks ok!” or “That bit doesn’t work” or, “This bit is a bit confusing.” – all of it is very useful and welcome. You can let me know these things by clicking on the ‘Comments’ button at the top or the bottom of this post.

Thanking you muchly,
Stephen