Martin Francis

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Working from PSD| UCD| Flash| InDesign| E–Commerce| Commercial| More Commercial

Web Design Projects completed


Design, build

Responsive to screen size using HTML5 media queries.
Based on the Twitter Bootstrap

 

 

Site aimed at participants. That is peeple who get paid to take part in CrowdZoo surveys

screen shot of Crowdzooh

 

CrowdZoo application. I was involved in the front end build and advising the owners on the development.


Design, build, host

Responsive to screen size using HTML5 media queries.
Based on the CSS1140 grid.

 


Jan 2012

Design, build, host

Responsive to screen size using HTML5 media queries.
Based on the CSS1140 grid. Virtually all the content is held in a MySQL database and served up on demand.

 

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Tom’s Rubbish

 


Interaction Design Mini Projects

3rd year project Highest mark in class

This was an individual assignment.


DSA 2

2nd highest mark out of 155 students which includes students from Computer Science BSc

This was an individual assignment.


Web Programming Assignment – UWE Assignment– 81% – Highest in Class

Web Programming
Using a light weight php framework

3 tiered approach:–

– Entity Relationship Modelling in XML then modelling software to generate SQL
–Writing the application layer in PHP using the framework that includes a config file that handles the errors and holds global constants
–Visible layer/front layer using XHTML strict, CSS, Javascript,Jquery and Ajax for the Search box.

 

The University version includes PHPS files that show that PHP source files in the footer. Interesting for programmers who can see how the pages were constructed.


December 10
For the 2nd year module Data, Schemas and Applications (DSA) university of west of england university of west of england BSc (Hons) Web Design
Weather and News Mashup.
Making use of the web as a source of content. A demonstration of web scraping.


October 10
For the 2nd year module Human and Computer Interaction (HCI) university of west of england university of west of england BSc (Hons) Web Design
Task 1 was using the PACT framework to think about what factors a designer would need to consider when faced with the problem of design a TV remote control for use in a hospital. Task 2 was explaining 4 of the design principles described by Donald Norman in his book The Design of Everday Things.


SEO Site – UWE Assignment– 78% – Highest in Class

April 10
For the 2nd year module Information Architecture. university of west of england university of west of england BSc (Hons) Web Design
Presentation of the findings of the research project carried out during the year. My Research project was Search Engine Optimization. The website uses PHP, AJAX, CSS and XHTML strict.



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March 10
For the module Systems Developement. university of west of england university of west of england BSc (Hons) Web Design
Bookshop website using a variety of technologies including PHP, MySql, Javascript, AJAX, CSS and XHTML strict.
The Assignment Specpdf assignment specification

The technical report gives a good indication of my level of knowledge as at March 2010



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Research to Design Comp – UWE Assignment– 86% – Highest in Class

March 10
For the module Web Design Principles. university of west of england university of west of england BSc (Hons) Web Design
Taking a start up business, doing the research following Garretts 5 layers of user experience from User Needs, Competitive Analysis and Site Objectives through to Visual Design Comps
The Assignment Specpdf assignment specification
User Persona - Margopdf persona margo
User Persona - Dalepdf persona dale


For illustration I have listed some of the components of this project individually.


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Febuary 10
For the module Web Design Principles. university of west of england university of west of england BSc (Hons) Web Design
Taking a start up business, doing the research following Garretts 5 layers of user experience from User Needs and Site Objectives through to Visual Design Comps
The Assignment Specpdf assignment specification
User Persona - Jasonpdf persona Jason
User Persona - Heidipdf persona Heidi


For illustration I have listed some of the components of this project individually.



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December 09
For the module Web Design Principles. university of west of england university of west of england BSc (Hons) Web Design
Taking a PSD and making XHTML strict compliant gallery site with lightbox and tooltips.
The Assignment Specpdf log



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November 09
For the module Web Design Principles. university of west of england university of west of england BSc (Hons) Web Design
Taking a PSD and making XHTML strict compliant site with RSS feed.
The Assignment Specpdf log



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Bob Dylan - Fan Site - UWE Assignment - Mark 97% - Highest in Class

March 09
For the Module Introduction to the Web. university of west of england university of west of england BSc (Hons) Web Design
Example of a prototype site, ready for customer iteration, based around a liquid layout.
The Assignment Specpdf log



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Joanna - Actress - UWE Assignment - Mark 92% - Highest in Class

March 09
For the module Media Technology. university of west of england university of west of england BSc (Hons) Web Design
It is a Flash based multimedia site that plays Audio MP3 recordings and video. My Academic Report goes into some detail about the design decisions and the 6 different software applications needed to put this site together.
The Assignment Specpdf log



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Information Design - Poster - UWE Assignment - Mark 81% - Highest in Class

April 09
For the module Information Design. university of west of england university of west of england BSc (Hons) Web Design
In groups of 4 we had to summarise the year's work in an eye catching poster.
The Assignment Specpdf logo



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E.A.A.A. - UWE Assignment- Mark 85% - Highest in Class

March 09
For the module Information Design. university of west of england university of west of england BSc (Hons) Web Design
Applied design principles and 3 column layout.
The Assignment Specpdf log



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E.A.A.A. - UWE Assignment- Mark 80% - Highest in Class

Dec 08
For the module Information Design. university of west of england university of west of england BSc (Hons) Web Design
Applied design principles to the printed form using Adobe InDesign to construct a newsletter.
The Assignment Specpdf log




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Dec 08
For the module Media Technology university of west of england university of west of england BSc (Hons) Web Design
Use of Adobe Flash to produce a movie scenario.



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June 2011
Don’t Guess Ltd

It is becoming increasing more important listen to consumers before making important business decisions like for example choosing the the right logo.
Don’t Guess is a service that provides access to a broad cross section of consumers that will give their opinion on these decisions.

I have done the design and build of this site.

 



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February 2011
Friska Restaurant

The owners had done their own website in iWeb which very image heavy, and no text so very slow to load and not friendly to search engines.
I re–programmed their pages and then added some extra features to the most visited pages.

 



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January 2011
Morgan Jones Associates is an Economic development consultancy

Design, build, and host

Search engine friendly and accessible, hand coded in Notepad++

 



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April 10
Job: Update and make changes to new design spec.
AllJoinOn is a Social Networking site. I was asked to update the logged in part of the front page. But before I could do that I corrected the code so that it validated

The site uses PHP and PostgreSQL. The page I worked on is over 600 lines long and the CSS sheet is over 3000 lines long.



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August 10
Job: Re–write the code for SEO.
I was asked to re–write some of the XHTML so that it can be read by search engines. This meant replacing the text that was previously displayed as images to searhable text. A relatively simple task that means that page now is much better optimised.

AllJoinOn is a Social Networking site. The site uses PHP and PostgreSQL. The page I worked on is over 600 lines long and the CSS sheet is over 3000 lines long.


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October 10
Job: CSS and XHTML for the shopping pages
I was asked to write the code for the shopping pages.

AllJoinOn is a Social Networking site. The site uses PHP and PostgreSQL. The page I worked on is over 600 lines long and the CSS sheet is over 3000 lines long.



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March 09
Julie's Ironing is a commercial entry level basic website. It is compliant with W3C web standards and easily found using Google.



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