Medipharma E-Commerce Sites
Medipharma sells natural health supplements and wanted a site to present baby oil and lotion, plus another to help dog mobility and general health. Initially I planned to write these mostly with my own PHP plus a small open-source PHP tool for a shopping cart. However, almost by chance, I stumbled across…
Silverstripe for Brian R Richards
In 2011 I started a contract with the great team at Brian R Richards, a branding agency in Newmarket, Auckland. I had never used the Silverstripe PHP CMS when I started, but I was admirably and patiently assisted up the learning curve by an outstanding Silverstripe guru, Damo Mooyman. Brian has a fantastic…
Kenpo Karate NZ
Zend Framework Bank Marketing Database
I had never used Zend Framework before, though had used Symfony with a PHP project a few years earlier. I was asked to be the PHP developer for a new and innovative offering from a well-known NZ bank. So it was a "0-60 in ten minutes" job, and I grew to like…
Pharma Health NZ Web Site
Pharmahealth was a PHP and JavaScript web site, for a small business selling remedies and supplements derived entirely from natural ingredients. Kennedy Garland, who runs Pharma Health, (Auckland NZ) already had some idea of key ingredients to use in the graphic design of the web site, such as a red-cross motif. He…
E-commerce Web-Site Topologika
Implementing a web-site store for Topologika (UK educational software) using the Paypal payments system. Topologika was an educational software company. I inherited a great-looking site build by Will Godfrey and worked on its maintenance. Then, in order to sell products over the web, they asked me to implement an online store. Initially,…
GoogleMaps and Search for NZ Schools
As preparation for my family's intended emigration to New Zealand in 2008, I thought it would be helpful (and, yes, fun!) to create a map of NZ schools, with some selection by decile. It became an intriguing exercise in juggling technologies. And it succeeded. When I converted this site from Silverstripe into…
Free Telly Guide UK, PHP
I had a great time with PHP and MySQL developing a page to display UK TV listings, which was at www.freetellyguide.co.uk (no longer active). You can select which TV channels to display, you can use free-text search, and look ahead day-by-day for the next week. Most programmes have associated summaries which we…
Markland Clinic
I had re-created this web-site in 2007. Things had flourished enough by 2008 for the client to commission a re-branding and a new sister site, focussing on Sports injuries. And again in 2010. For the latest incarnation of this UK Physiotherapy site in 2010, I created a smooth-scrolling Flash animation for a…