Findel Education are a multi-brand, multi-million pound turnover business. Joined a small team to help deliver an ambitious inhouse delivery of their new platform.

Features:

• Umbraco V7 CMS, uCommerce, RESTful Service, SAP integration
• Working in a team
• Cutting edge C# technology, CastleWindsor DI, full Unit tests and automated tests
• Elastic Beanstalk deployments

The Living Lomonds website, needed to be a fully responsive website with a tricky Google Maps interface. With various popups and the need to accommodate a challenging design (take a look at the curved overlaps and mountain headers that works on widescreens and mobiles alike!)

Features:

• Umbraco V7 CMS, Google Maps, HTML 5, jQuery, Bootstrap
• Searchable Google Map with custom icons
• Curved overlays on the map and footer that supports ultra wide monitors and mobiles!

A fully responsive website built with Umbraco v7 and Tea Commerce. Taking over a stalled project (built in v6) I upgraded the code and reimported the products to give the client a future proofed-platform to re-launch their online presence.

Features:

• Umbraco V7 CMS, Tea Commerce, HTML 5, jQuery, Bootstrap
• Mega nav to showcase the extensive product range
• Bespoke ecommerce requirements requiring custom logic for the shipping calculations and EU VAT considerations
• Credit Card payments via Stripe

A fully responsive website built to be accessible for all. Project goal was to build a site which is both accessible and professional looking with a target audience of both adults and children with special needs and potential project sponsors. Scope was design work to meet accessibility standards, full front-end build, site structure, content advice and server setup and backup strategy. Site has been designed using Scope and Mencap as example sites (though enhancing these to create a fully responsive site).

Features:

• Umbraco V7 CMS, HTML 5, jQuery, Bootstrap
• Built to accessibility standards - whilst balancing the need to look professional
• Designed to be self-supporting but flexible for a charitable organisation with a limited budget
• Built using the accessibility website examples Mencap and Scope whilst adding full responsive mobile and tablet support.

Greater Manchester's Business Growth Hub - an organisation that aims to support new businesses and support growth. Working for a local Digital Agency on an existing website which had gone live with many incomplete features due to previous time pressures. With changing and new requirements the website was delivered with new features such as a full Treehouse style e-Learning platform and custom registration elements with full custom back-office admin workflow support.

Features:

• Umbraco V7 - building on two other development teams' code
• Two processes of bug fixing and phased releases of new functions whilst retaining site functionality
• Added a members area
• Added a Treehouse style e-Learning platform with video tutorials with a points and badge reward system
• Custom backoffice sections to support internal workflows (e.g. approving Suppliers and Partners)
• Website user import and invitation via email system

A major household brand. Built a fully responsive site using Bootstrap but with a custom desktop navigation menu and an alternative off canvas mobile menu.

Features:

• Umbraco V7 - built using a fully bespoke "content block picker" in the new grid to support promo panel content reuse
• Built under non-disclosure agreement
• Site delivered to time and budget with the grid block picking being adopted by the agency for future work

A B2B website, built for a major North West Digital Agency (NDA). Project included front-end build and Umbraco V7 build. Project was delivered early and to specification.

Features:

• Umbraco V7 CMS, HTML 5, jQuery
• Built to be maintainable by end client with little to no support required
• Custom menu section within Umbraco to view and delete customer website submissions
• SEO friendly HTML with flexibility for the customer to add their own pages and content
• Exceeded client expectations

The Lodge Islay is a fully responsive and fluid site built in Wordpress.

Features:

• Built using Wordpress CMS, HTML 5, jQuery
• Built to be maintainable by the client
• Bespoke template built from the ground up ensuring there is no Wordpress clutter
• Fully responsive and fluid
• Designed to be mobile optimised
• Provided SEO advice and Google Adword strategy

A team overview site to showcase the Ultimate teams in Greater Manchester. Optimised to work across all devices along with a specialist "team sorter" which suggests the most suitable team.

Features:

• Custom CMS, HTML 5, jQuery
• Built to be maintainable by all teams in Greater Manchester
• Unique team picker - first of it's kind in Ultimate Frisbee!
• SEO friendly

Siempre CMS

Features:

• Built in PHP and completely open source
• Built for use for small to meduim sized businesses that need cheaper hosting than Umbraco can provide
• Intituative user interface
• Produces clean markup
• Page speeds that make Wordpress look like the dinosaur it is!

View the site and the source code(!): www.siemprecms.org

Ticket Purse has been designed and built by Steve Morgan, an IT professional with over 10 years of experience in both Project Management and development, in his spare time. Harnessing experience from various industries, with specialist experience in hospitality, he identified the need for a low-cost, yet complete ticketing solution. The project's aim is to provide a quality, multi-tiered, secure, low-cost ticketing solution to support gig / theatre / holiday businesses.

A live demo is available for you to evaluate the system. Currently the back office system has been the main area of development with careful consideration of the overall design for the website front end which provides the ability to drop booking controls onto your own and third parties' websites (demo here) to drive and enable online sales.

Features:

• Built using PHP5, jQuery, MySQL and AJAX
• Secure user login portal
• Separation of the back office application and the client / third party website(s) ensuring customer data is safe and secure
• Powerful Customer search features with full CRM functionality - back office users can store notes, contact history and assign work item actions to bookings to cover many different work flows
• Gig / theatre / holiday booking system which provides a ticketing solution with clever algorithms that ensures no single seats are left - maximising profits
• Payments module - flexible functionality enables payment handling via vouchers, cash or credit cards - linking to a payment provider of your choice
• Scalable with maximum performance - the demo system contains over 10,000 customers with a seating plan designed to model the largest venue in the UK!
• e-tickets - creates a PDF eticket complete with unique barcodes for ticketless venues
• Intelligent Caching - ensures your customers only see real availability whilst limiting hardware requirements keeping hosting costs low!

Advised and developed a PHP & AJAX membership payment solution for their new WordPress powered website. I provided the full project process services - requirements gathering, specification writing, development, testing and delivery. Solution was delivered to timescales and the client was very impressed.

Features:

• Built using PHP5, jQuery, MySQL and AJAX
• XML admin interface
• Fully documented & specified
• Uses my own CAPTHA solution

Design, build and maintenance of our Ultimate Frisbee club's website. Includes a full admin system to manage the tournament registrations taking over £10,000 of payments in a single hour in 2011.

Features:

• Built using PHP5, JQuery, MySQL and AJAX - later ported to PyroCMS to provide access to other Committee members
• Members weekly emails sent from the site including a functionality for subscribers to change their settings
• SMS gateway integration
• Admin system to control tournament registration sign-ups including automated emails, online payments and a complex registration process