Access have launched the first of several websites for the UK arm of the international business services organisation, arvato. Our new site for arvato government services is yet another project based on Drupal.

Neville Johnson, one of the long-standing clients at Access, asked us to implement their website re-brand and overall design re-think. We worked with them to produce a rich and much more contemporary looking website. We’re dead proud of this one! Site to be launched within the next few weeks.

Access were asked to develop a website for the NHS in Cumbria to target the three main topics of smoking, drinking and the importance of healthy living. This site had to closely link in with the billboard and print advertising going on at the same time. We developed the site using Drupal and themed it with the bright colours and large messages used in the display campaign.

Arabica Buffets do buffets, surprising. I designed and created a one-page site for the company, based in Northwich, Cheshire.

I created a brand new website for Bury Society for Blind and Partially Sighted people (a local charity my Mum works for). Due to the nature of the intended audience of this site, several considerations had to be made at the design stage to guarantee easy reading for people with a range of sight issues as well as screen readers. I also developed two alternative high-contrast colour themes for this content managed website.

Deb Group are a massive multi-national organisation providing skincare products to over 100 countries globally. They currently have a disorganised online presence with each regional branch operating their own website. Access Digital have been tasked with building a multilingual global website with extensive product catalogue whilst Access Advertising are taking on product packaging, posters and print advertising.

As part of a change in business focus McCarthy Recruitment came back to Access to ask for an upgrade of their current Drupal website so that we could develop microsites that plug in to their job database. Having designed and built the upgraded home page we’re currently in the process of building the first microsite (although it’s more sophisticated than just a microsite). The two websites should be going live August 2008 - I’ll provide more details after launch. Update: these sites finally got wrapped up in December 2008

Neville Johnson are a successful Manchester-based bespoke furniture company. Every week you will find their glossy ads produced by Access Advertising in the Sunday papers. They recently approached Access Digital to perform a design refresh on their busy .net website. Working with their in-house designers we managed to produce a new skin for the site that reflects their current print-work and didn’t require any costly changes to the CMS.

To further the development of the Access Advertising web presence I suggested the creation of a staff blog for off-topic discussion and ranting. I was tasked with designing and developing the project along with training of the staff to use it. I decided to develop the blog with Wordpress over Drupal as it offered a pre-configured blogging platform with an easy to understand admin interface. I found theming the site remarkably easy (if not quite as flexible as Drupal’s theming system).

Another instance where my superiors decided to let me have a go at designing a site. When I started at Access Digital they had already made a commercial decision to build their sites with Drupal and the site for Booth Ventures is no exception. Booth are in the landfill and quarrying trade, but you wouldn’t know it from this screenshot. Work in progress. The Booth Ventures website went live in April 2008

One of the first website projects I got involved with when I started at Access Digital. The website for Hydratight, a global engineering firm, represents a large part of the re-branding project Access is leading. We decided to build their website using the Drupal open-source content management system. When the English language site is finished we’ll be getting it translated into loads of other languages. It’s a big and complex job this one. The Hydratight UK website went live on the 1st May 2008

The website for the Redfern Inquiry represents a several firsts in my career: my first website launch with Access Advertising, my first public sector website, my first Drupal project to go live and the first time I’ve been trusted to do the complete design process at work (usually I’m given designs up front).

When I first started working for Access Advertising the responsibility for looking after the company website was passed to me. I had to pick up some flash skills pretty quickly to be able to update the portfolio of clients and other elements. This website was also my first encounter with the open source CMS Drupal.

This was one of the last projects I was involved with before I finished working for Greenhouse Creative (a sister company of Yellow Partnership). This slick fusion of flash and Honeycomb management system was launched recently to replace their old ageing website.

I worked closely with the company owner of Smart1 Driving School to develop a suitable, appealing design for this website and then went on to develop the site in strict XHTML. The main challenge of the project was to get the site launched in time to catch freshers’ week at the Manchester universities and market the student orientated special offers.

An installation of the refined content management system. This site never went in to production because the client went AWOL.

A content management system was installed with a front-end that exactly matched their previous website.

An installation of the refined content management system with the addition of a property sales and lets database with relavent admin pages. Website not live yet.

I wrote the code that processes transactions and card payments for the Comme Ca Art shop. The choosen credit card processing gateway was ProTx.

Experience of modifying templates and modules for the ShopScript e-commerce platform. To be fair I only had a minor role in the development of this site.