Date created: September 2011 Web Address: www.barnardos.ie About the Project: I recently joined Barnardos as their Online Executive and one of the first projects I was asked to undertake was a refresh and update of their official website. A review of the site showed that it was well designed and worked well from a usability [...]

ASK YOUR WEB DESIGNER FIRST. Sorry for shouting, but I can’t count the amount of project hours that I’ve lost dealing with hosters who have bad customer service, poor systems and the inadequate services for the job at hand.  It’s particularly frustrating because I know well which Irish hosting services are good, and a simple [...]

Date created: February 2011 Web Address: www.turnofftheredlight.ie About the Project: Turn Off the Red Light is a campaign to end prostitution and sex trafficking in Ireland. The campaign was set up by an alliance of NGOs and was coordinated by the Immigrant Council of Ireland. I designed the identity for the campaign, and built the [...]

Date created: January 2011 Web Address: www.petermatthews.ie About the Project: I built this website for the very talented Peter Matthews, a Bray-based photographer.  The brief was to keep the site quite clean and minimalist, in order to make Peter’s beautiful photography the main focus.  The site was built through WordPress, and contains a slideshow gallery [...]

Date created: November 2010 Web Address: www.mamanpoulet.com About the Project: I recently created a custom WordPress theme for Maman Poulet, one of Ireland’s most popular and highly-regarded political blogs.  The site had previously been using a standard WordPress template, and Suzy of Maman Poulet wanted a new, cleaner and personalised look. The chicken illustration is [...]