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.

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).

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.