freelance digital website designer Leeds, Yorkshire

website design

Websites built for individual's to large national organisations, I specialist in designing and building sites for content mangement systems, but I still enjoy the contruction of small static sites. Below are some of my favourite sites I have designed and implemented.

Hello Glam website

Hello Glam website

An online based jewellery shop, build on an e-commerce platform required a dramatic design update to make it appeal to a young adult audience and appear slick, professional and trustworthy as an online shop.

Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator, Html, CSS visit the live site: coming soon!

Amber Gatwick Guesthouse website

Amber Gatwick Guesthouse website

Amber Gatwick Guesthouse required a complete overhaul of their website to attract professional commuters, as the guesthouse is extremely close to Gatwick Airport and offers a car parking service, they felt they were missing out on a key market due to their dated website. The new website shows a fresh, modern design with an integrated online booking system.

Skills: Photoshop, Html, CSS, jQuery visit the live site: coming soon!

Cheeky Monkey website

Cheeky Monkey website

An online based children's clothes shop required a new modern image for their e-commerce website site, their existing site was very basic and dated. They wanted a competitive new website which would inspire confidences in their users and fit their fun, child friendly image.

Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator visit the live site: coming soon!

Viking Reclamation website

Viking Reclamation website

The existing Viking Reclamation website was a very dated catalogue based site with the focus on the the reclaimed items and photos in scrap yards, for the redesign I shifted the focus on to the final products and beautiful interiors to give an up market feel to the products.

Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator visit the live site: coming soon!

Awaken Adventure website

Awaken Adventure website

This online based company scours the country looking for great fun days out, whether it be a relaxing day in the spa or bungee jumping off a bridge, they will arrange all the fine details to make your day great. This online based booking system works by setting a one off cost for the the experience day with no extra work for the customer. There are a variety of people who would use this site from people looking to be pampered to extreme sports enthusiasts.

Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator visit the live site: (concept only)

Kabuki website

Kabuki website

Kabuki are a seven piece function band who play at weddings, social functions and corporate events. In the first instance they wanted a simple one page site which would play a few sample tracks they have recorded and some contact details, this is so clients can listen to their style of playing. This site is used more as a business card site to show the people who are interesting in booking, the site will soon be expanded into a full cms website.

Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Html, CSS, jQuery visit the live site: Kabuki website

Clearset website

Clearset website

A printing company who specialise in large scale display printing as well as custom packaging production. They only do small runs and pride themselves on high quality printing. There focus is on attracting large clients and displaying a great amount of professionalism. Although they don't produce any design work themselves they wanted the appearance of a design centred company, as most of their potential clients will be based in the design or marketing field.

Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator visit the live site: (concept only)

Doo Wop iphone app website

Doo Wop iphone app website

The Doo Wop iphone app was created by Organqic Music and Gamerholix, this website was commissioned to be produced as part of the launch of the application. The Doo Wop game has a very illustrative style and a large number of fun characters were created for the app, along with a few backgrounds which are featured in the game. This style has been extended and developed into the website and gives an overview into this quirky and addictive app. As further versions of the app are developed the style of the site will change, so check back for further developments and try downloading the game to see for yourself.

Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Html, CSS, jQuery visit the live site: Doo Wop website

Car Share Project

Car Share Project

The Car Share Project was a self initiated project, based around an illustration I produced. Producing digital art and illustrations as the basis of a website is my favourite area of work, and I always want to increase the amount of crafted visually imagery that can be placed on a website. Within this design I wanted to use detailed illustration in an overly stylised way, to show an idlic scene of less cars on the road and a greener world. I wanted to give the end user a real feel good factor about getting involved in a car sharing project. This site is only at the concept stage for now but I would love the opportunity to develop it further.

Skills: Photoshop and Illustrator visit the live site: (concept only)

Craig Harrison's Portfolio

Craig Harrison's Portfolio

Craig Harrison is a bass player, bass tutor and a audio producer. He required a promotional website to advertise his skills, but also to point people in the right direction for further information. The requirements allowed for much creativity; it had to be simple and modern, with a collective style which would look good for all three areas that he wanted to promote. After designing the logos with three muted colour variations, I went down the route of having a different colour for each section, all placed upon a dark grey. The logo designs were based upon the VU meter on an audio mixing desk, and this theme was continued subtly throughout the site, as I incorporated it into the background. I produced three bold black illustrations, which change with each section of the site. These stand out strongly against the muted tones and visuals of the rest of the site.

Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator, Html, CSS visit the live site: Craig Harrison's Portfolio

Filey Festival

Filey Festival

The Filey Festival has been an annual event for generations, and in its heyday it was something that the whole seaside town looked forward to, as well as a big tourist attraction. However, over the years most of the interest had been lost. In 2007 the Filey Festival committee wanted to revive the event to its former glory, with an all out, 10 day festival for the whole family; this change required a new look. A website was needed in two parts; first was an elaborate holding page with festival news updates and a countdown to when the festival brochure would be on sale. When the brochure was released so too was the main website, providing diary dates, line-up information and location details.

Skills: Photoshop, Flash, Actionscript 2.0, html, CSS visit the live site: (site no longer live)

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