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IDASS: Health related fitness

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Client: IDASS (2011)

Details: IDASS care about helping people get fit for life. It’s about healthy eating and targeted exercise. The main IDASS website promotes their range of health and fitness related products, but they also have a WordPress blog where industry experts chip in with tips for a healthier life. The existing blog was supposed to mirror the look and feel of the main site, but it was falling short in a number of areas. IDASS needed a quick solution and turned to me to optimise their WordPress installation for their needs and add a few extras such as image slider and social networking links. I also added plugins to help manage their site for areas such as SEO and database backups.

“John, Just to say thank you for the work you did on our Blog at www.idass.com/blog. It really helped sort out a few issues left by the company that we had ‘design’ the site. I would recommend your work.”
Paul Moore, IDASS

DAV Management: Leading the way

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Client: DAV Management for Article10Design (2006-2011)

Details: DAV is an independent project and programme management company. In late 2010 DAV decided the time was right for a new skin for their Eddie CMS website, as well as a new WordPress blog, as part of a rationisation exercise to help communicate their competitive advantages.

I worked on most aspects of this project from the consultation through to delivery creating a very different look for for the company which helps differentiate them from their competition.

Sarah Britten-Jones: Appropriation

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Client: Sarah Britten Jones for Designation (2010)

Details: Sarah Britten-Jones is a British visual artist with a background in ceramics. Some of her work involves the process of appropriation, where something is taken and changed very slightly in order to create a new piece with new meanings, so her website has been designed to look similar to the website of a large well-known global furniture store. The site is built in WordPress and acts as Sarah’s portfolio and her blog.

“John is a very intelligent designer, with a thorough understanding of his subject and always responds promptly and effectively to queries.”
Sarah Britten-Jones

Designation: Touchpoint

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Client: Designation (2008-2010)

Details: Touchpoint is the appropriate name for communication from Designation, focussed on the monthly e-shot supported by a blog where subscribers can post their feedback. The e-shot is on edition 25 as I write this, meaning it’s been going out on time every month for over 2 years, which is a remarkable achievement for a company this size.

My involvement is in preparing, test and sending the e-shot, in conjunction with updates to the blog, and the Designation website. I’ve also set the blog up so that updates are syndicated out to the Designation Twitter account and Facebook business page via Ping.FM. I set those social media platforms up a while back and they are also under the Touchpoint banner currently.

Clients are normally delighted for me to promote their project in my portfolio, if however you are a client that would prefer your project was not promoted here please let me know and I'll remove it. Thanks.