kineticPulse - Website Development & Design by Laura James, Bath based freelance web developer

bGorgeous Makeup

Launched Feb 2010, this beautiful illustrative site was designed by Carys Tait.

I built a customised Wordpress template for this new makeup & beauty business. It incorporates customised Wordpress functions to allow the bespoke gallery and slideshows to be easily updated by the client.

Technologies used: PHP, XHTML, CSS, Wordpress, Scriptaculous, Lightwindow

• Visit bGorgeous Make up website

Elusive

This site represents a major step forward for this surfing brand.

The old Flash-based web site was bringing in few customers, so together with designer Adam Wyatt we built this lively vibrant site with online music, video, news and team pages. It also has a competition page and a contact us page

The client can easily make updates via the bespoke CMS

Technologies used: XHTML, CSS, PHP, jQuery

• Visit Elusive's website

Marmite Pop Up Shop

A bold and "in your face" site was needed for Marmite's temporary shop on Regent Street for Xmas 2009. The branding & design was done by Sunhouse Creative. It needed to integrate a feed from Twitter using the Twitter API and a free Blogger blog was used to feed in the longer news articles, thus removing the need to build a complex CMS for, what is essentially a temporary site.

Technologies used: XHTML, CSS, PHP, jQuery, simplePie, Twitter API

• Marmite Pop Up Shop screenshot
• Client: SunHouse Creative

101 Data Solutions

Recently launched using a customised Wordpress theme, to allow the client to easily update and add to the 200+ product pages

Technologies used: PHP, XHTML, CSS, Wordpress, Flash

• 101 Data Solutions
• Designed by Adam Wyatt

The Cherry Closet

I developed the bespoke Zen Cart template for this online vintage boutique store designed by Adam Wyatt

Technologies used: PHP, XHTML, CSS, Zen Cart

• Visit the Cherry Closet website
• Client: Manage My Website

Dress Your Home

A fresh design was given to this Zen Cart site. Designed by Adam Wyatt this iteration includes competition & newsletter subscription features along with a new picture gallery

Technologies used: PHP, XHTML, CSS, Zen Cart

• Dress Your Home
• Client: Manage My Website

Fattyboombasstic

A site showcasing a funky local band (which I have a vested interest in!)

Features include a Flash music player, newsletter subscriptions, Paypal Buy Now buttons and dynamic gig listing direct from a feed from www.bathandbristolmusic.co.uk

Technologies used: ASP, XHTML, CSS, Flash

• Fattyboombasstic

Swish Windows & Doors

An HTML based site for this national brand’s rebranding in Oct 2007

Technologies used: ASP, XHTML, CSS

• Swish Windows
• Client: RealityHouse

St Marks Toddlers Group

I designed & built this simple site for our local toddler group, mostly as an exercise to see if we could get more visitors just by having a web presence. Hence SEO was key - as was other forms of web marketing, such as Google Local Business and other web directories.

Technologies used: XHTML, CSS, PHP, jQuery

• St Marks Toddler Group

Aquapax

A simple two page site design in two languages (English & French) for the drinking water company Aquapax - designed by the Sunhouse Creative team

Technologies used: HTML, CSS, ASP.Net

• Visit Aquapax website
• Client: SunHouse Creative

Tom Weller Photography

A site to showcase the portfolio of Lifestyle and Wedding photographer Tom Weller

Technologies used: HTML, CSS, PHP & JavaScript Scriptaculous library

• Tom Weller Photography

Tereza H Make Up

A beautiful site design by Adam Wyatt at Flipside, this site incorporates jQuery fading galleries to show Tereza's extensive portfolio of models. This site has been Search Engine Optimised and built with valid & semantic code

Technologies used: XHTML, CSS, PHP, jQuery

• Tereza H Make Up
• Client: Flipside Studio

Reach Design Campaign Monitor Newsletter

My favourite email newsletter system is Campaign Monitor. It is always very efficient and good value for money, so I always recommend it to my clients.

From an initial design layout Reach Design gave me I created a Campaign Monitor Template that the client can use repeatedly to send out different newletters.

I also provided training in how to use Campaign Monitor successfully

Technologies used: XHTML, CSS, Campaign Monitor

• View example template online
• More info on Campaign Monitor
• Client: Reach Design

Liberty Bishop

Working with RealityHouse I developed this multi paged site powered by an ASP-based CMS

Technologies used: ASP, XHTML, CSS, Flash, tinyMCE

• View Liberty Bishop website
• Client: RealityHouse

David Gumbleton - Property Refurbishment

A gallery site in PHP for a local property refurbishment specialist

With contact form and lightwindow functions to display zoomed images

Technologies used: PHP, XHTML, CSS, Javascript

• View David Gumbleton website

Dune Shoes

One of PMedia’s biggest clients, I was involved as the main Project Manager/Client Liaison from May 2005 to Mar 2007. The site has been an out and out success for Dune with a turnover far beyond their initial expectations. It allows customers to browse Dune products easily online, combining innovative rotational photography with a custom built payment gateway for purchases. The site has a custom admin interface with ability for the website manager to perform almost all stock and warehousing tasks using the website.

Technologies used: ASP, XHTML, CSS, Flash

• Dune Shoes
• Client: PMedia (now Brightfilter)

Community Grant Decisions System

The client required a web-based application for their trustees who could use it to track grant applications and associated documents, along with the subsequent discussion and voting procedure.
This has revolutionised the way that they work allowing disparate trustees to work seamlessly together without needing to meet.

The site was built from scratch using ASP - with many bespoke functions such as member voting, regular reminders and different access levels all coded to spec.

Technologies used: ASP, XHTML, CSS and Javascript

• View Community Grant Decisions System screen shot
• Client: RealityHouse

Surfside Online

A design revamp for the online shop for this Truro-based surfshop. The site was originally built using ZenCart, the free open source e-commerce library, but the design required revamping and cleaning up along with subtle tweaks to the functionality

Technologies used: Zen Cart, PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript

• Surfside Online website
• Designer: Adam Wyatt

AccessSportsOnline

A "sports dating" website - to allow players looking for clubs (and vice versa) to be able to search for each other using specific criteria.

Payment for registration is taken via Protx payment gateway and there is a complex CMS and registered user management system in the back end

Technologies used: PHP, HTML, Flash, MySQL, CSS and Javascript

• AccessSportsOnline website
• Client: RealityHouse

Squeaky Dog Party Balloons

Another Zen Cart installation and development of custom template for this online party balloon retailer.

I installed custom modules for payment via SagePay, importing product lists from Excel, variable rates of shipping internationally, newsletter subscriptions and custom admin order modules.

I also provided hands on Zen Cart training for the client

Technologies used: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Zen Cart, SagePay

• Visit the Squeaky Dog website
• Client: Manage My Website