So, thought I had better put something on here about what I am actually doing in my day-to-day life as a Developer (and now come designer - how that happened I am not sure, I am no designer, but have picked up a few things on the way).
Lets start with what I achieved last year work/personal and private wise.
During my time at CallScripter I took over responsibility for designing an developing their primary coporate website which then moved onto a microsite for them and also their parent business requesting my services to re-design and develop a webite for them.
http://www.callscripter.com - Comes with custom Content Management System (CMS) behind the scenes which uses XML web services to manage the data from a SafeZone. On the homepage points of interest include the CallScripter Latest and External News RSS which are controlled via the CMS I developed. The External News RSS feed loops through a selection of feeds a user enters via the CMS and then binds this to a repeater control.
The CallVault website was a microsite off the main CallScripter website. ASP.NET has a really handy feature call Themes. This enabled SKIN files and separate StyleSheet files to be create in a web application. These files contain appearance (style) information on DotNet controls and CSS styles. For more informatin about ASP.Net Themes see here
IP PLUS PLC is the parent company of CallScripter and CallVault and after my efforts on the CallScripter and CallVault website I was asked to re-do the current site which can be found at http://www.ipplusplc.com/
As a compaign tool supporting newsletters and marketing projects I also developed an Email campaign tool which managed users and user groups along wit email campaigns. This tool tracked and reported on the effectiveness of campaigns by showing which users viewed the email and clicked on a link(s) contained within the promotional email.
I am current situated at Vodafone Specialist Communications as primarily as a Web Developer & Designer. I developed http://www.vodafonerental.com/ and have been improving design elements in co-ordination with Vodafone UK brand guidelines.
The website comprises of products and services that Vodafone Specialist Communications offer and contains an ecommerce system to take online orders which
Most recently I have moved into conversion rate improvement (under the consultancy of Conversion Rate Experts which has lead onto Split testing and Multivariant testing (using the wonderful Google Optimizer tool) which to improve the overall user experience and convert more of the websites goals (i.e. make more money!).
I also developed the Vodafone Hire website which focuses on mobile hiring products and services primarily for the UK. I will write more on this later :)