Oddies: Odd socks of the world unite!

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Client: Oddies for Designation (2003-2007)

Details: The Oddies are a series of childrens books (and hopefully soon a TV series) from the author Grant Slatter. Using the great character illustrations produced by the Oddies team we produced a number of Flash and CMS driven websites covering both Oddieworld itself as well as the ReadWithMe week campaign that was rolled out over the following years. I was involved in the production of all the website as well as interactive CD’s that supported the ReadWithMe campaign.

Copeswood: Manifestation inc.

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Client: Copeswood for Designation (2008-2009)

Details: Copeswood’s needed a new website to help clearly market their services. They wanted a clean and professional looking website with a couple of nice features. I developed a simple PHP site that utilised the MooTools JavaScript framework to add a modern gallery using MultiBox to show off their samples, as well as actually finding an actual justifiable reason to use the Reflection script on the homepage. I’ve also helped Copeswood with other eMarketing requirements in their communication.

Whitley Arts Festival: It’s not all pollocks

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Client: Whitley Arts for Designation (2009-2010)

Details: The Whitley Arts Festival is put together annually by Hogarth Productions. They contacted Designation in advance of the 2008 festival to provide brand and website services. My main involvement was in developing the festival website (Eddie CMS / ASP / XHTML /CSS).

Reading Green Business Network

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Client: Reading Borough Council for Designation/Article10Design (2009-2010)

Details: Designation worked with Kyocera to support Reading Borough Council in setting up a website to support the activities of the Reading Green Business Network. I worked with the Kyocera marketing team (who manage/host the site) on the brand and the theme for the Drupal CMS that runs the site.

Update: this site was recently upgraded from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6.

“John has been excellent from beginning to end of the projects he ran with us. Taking our rather loose briefs and turning them in to outstanding end products. He has created 2 themes for websites we have run on Drupal, he managed the project from beginning to end within budget and has been on hand for any queries, questions etc afterwards. All round excellent work and service.”
Rob Attryde, Marketing Communications Manager, Kyocera MITA UK

Norwegian Log: Building with nature’s best

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Client: Norwegian Log Buildings for Designation (2005-2009)

Details: The Norwegian Log website showcases the log buildings of various kinds they offer with lots of supporting material and case studies. The site is a CMS with is managed for the client as they are far too busy looking after the dozens of filtered prospects that contact them through the site every month (each one potentially a six figure sale).

I worked with the client to produce the site architecture and wireframes, and then oversaw the design and developed the site myself.