I was asked to design and build a system that would allow Play.com customers who bought the new Moby album, to have access to an exclusive MP3.
Here is an outline of what I constructed:
When you buy the Moby album ‘Wait for Me’ from Play.com, you also get a unique 10 digit code emailed to you. If you enter that code on to a page on Moby’s website you are emailed a link which lets you download an exclusive mp3.
Your download link expires after either 3 days or 3 clicks, whichever comes first.
I built a custom system using PHP and MySQL that handled this process and also produced the pages for the Moby website.
» You can see the offer on play.com and the promo page on moby.com
Friday, 26th Jun 2009 | Link »
I was asked to redesign the website for the designer and vinyl toy shop, Toy Life. I had alsobuilt the previous version of their site - and to help matters, the site is run by the talented Mr & Mrs Muju who provided me with the initial bare bones layout, which I turned into a Wordpress theme and site template.
The site’s main news/blog area is powered by Wordpress. In addition I built a custom shop with a Paypal payent facility, along with an admin area to add and edit shop items.
I also created a photo gallery which links into Toy Life’s Flickr account and creates a gallery from that, so they have full control over the site’s content.
I’m very pleased with how the site came out. It feels simple to use and it looks great, mostly down to the great logo and colour scheme supplied and it is also helped by the fantastic photography that has been added.
» Visit toylife.co.uk
Thursday, 25th Jun 2009 | Link »
I was asked to design and build the official website for DJ record producer and drummer, Kleerup. Here in the UK, he is probably best known for his number 1 in 2007 called ‘With Every Heartbeat’ featuring Robyn.
The site features a journal for Kleerup and a news area, videos, discography, photo gallery, streaming music, event listings and an exclusive members area.
When building sites for musicians I ask myself ‘As a music fan, what would I want from this website?’, and I believe the answer is, obviously, music. That would be followed closely by videos and event details - so these elements are prominent with the music player and featured video in the sidebar throughout the site, and the events featured ‘Live events’ featuring high up in the navigation.
The site is built using a mixture of custom made code and admin areas, Flickr - which was used to produce the photo gallery and Wordpress for the blogs and site framework - it is fully updateable by Kleerup and his management company which gives them a lot of control and flexibilty.
» Visit kleerup.net
(It was a client request that this site be built on the same foundation as my previous work for Royksopp, hence any similarity.)
Tuesday, 28th Apr 2009 | Link »
The wonderful people at Infectious have launched a range of skins for your laptop, iPod or iPhone using images from my texture photo website Urban Dirty.
There are currently 4 designs to choose from, Crusts n’ rust, Grimey grill, Got it on lock & Greenery - plus an interview with yours truly about how it all began, influences and vices.
I am so chuffed that these texture photos are getting used this way and it’s great to see them online alongside the likes of Jon Burgerman, Buff Monster and Stuntkid to name a few. I’m extremely grateful to Infectious for showing such an interest. Hope you like the skins, they look pretty fresh huh?
Thursday, 19th Mar 2009 | Link »
If you want a website you can
update yourself or want to get
blogging, I can create a fully
customised site based on the popular
Wordpress system.