Whilst functional in its day, the internet has moved on a lot since 2008. This site has been identified as needing a modernising revamp so it will get a complete overhaul in both design and, of course, responsive code. The WIP can be viewed at http://cambriantransport.com/preview
'Chaps Away' sell vintage travel and outdoor products. This initial site, built using Foundation 5, will soon be expanded with product updates and a full CMS driven e-commerce solution. I am providing the hosting and email for this site, as I do for most of the sites I build.
I was asked to take over the hosting of this site and repair the very out-dated WordPress Theme that had many technical faults due to deprecited code. A key issue for the client was that the site did not register at all in Google searches. Through applying Google Tag manager and Analytics, registering the business with Google Business pages and adding it to Google maps, this site now lists on page two of Google's results despite the very common 'Therapy Centre' name.
Created by Blue Stag Studios in Cardiff in 2011, the original static site served the Railway well. I have been managing the content for this site since it was created and have also re-written the Twitter, Google Maps and Flickr plugins. This was necessary for Twitter when the API changed to use OAuth in early 2013. The templating for this site has been greatly improved with significant added automation using PHP. A bespoke CMS back-end is currently in development with PHP and MySQL. The site would then benefit greatly from a 'Mobile First' responsive transformation.
A personal website. Always very clean and simple, I generally use this site to experiment a bit. I currently have an Octopress and a Wordpress blog hosted here.
This is my main portfolio site, built using Bootstrap 3.3. As you are already here, I will let it speak for itself.
Much like its sister site of the Barry Tourist Railway, this site has been flagged as requiring a priority update. The focus will be on bringing the design up to date whilst adding a slightly more commercial feel. The underlying code and structure will be modernised and it will be made responsive.
2006 - Internet Spaceships are a serious business. During my time as a founding member of a corporation in the MMORPG Eve Online, I created this site as an information and communications resource for our members. We had an active phpBB forum (sadly I've mislaid the database backup) and our own killboard. We took it quite seriously and it was run with strict military discipline.
If you were gaming in the early 2000's, you definitely played Half-Life. I created this site as a news resource for friends and anyone else who might have been interested in fan created content, videos and game mods.
From way back in 2000. I created this site whilst at university. The idea behind the venture was to become the number one portal for UK university students!
My name is Chris. I am a web developer with a focus on fully standardised, obsessively cross browser (and device) compliant, clean and efficient code.
