My Sites

Thingy Ma Jig

Thingy Ma Jig is a site which has gone through many 'faces'. It started off as a playground for me to learn the basics of HTML and CSS and over the years as my skills and knowledge have grown, so has the website. After starting development on my own homebuilt CMS, I was introduced to Drupal which, in my opinion, is a dream to develop in. By this point I knew I had the ability to develop a CMS from scratch, however I came to the conclusion that an exercise in reinventing the wheel would prove far less fruitful than using a pre-built wheel and continue to develop the rest of the vehicle.

I'm currently quite happy with this site. Since moving it to Drupal and concentrating my efforts on content, SEO, features such as a Social Statistics counter and a redirecting module, the site's traffic has increased approximately sixty times to, usually, more than 1,200 unique visitors a day and over 2,000 page impressions.

The content of this site is primarily my daily blog and also a place for some of my more complete projects - currently mostly written in Dark Basic Pro.

DBP Site

DBP Site is a group of community driven websites. There is a codebase where every snippet is a short program which someone thought would be useful for other people. There is an api which lists all commands available in the Dark Basic Pro language. There is a challenges database which lists all the challenges and entries from the DBP Coding Challenges. Finally, there is the websring which catalogues some DBP related websites. In other words; this is a site driven by the passion to help others.

It was an idea I had after I saw people in the community passing comments and suggestions about TGC's current Codebase which they seemed unable to implement on their site. This is, as with most of my sites, built upon the foundations provided by Drupal and uses many modules provided by the community as well as some of my own which I either have or will be providing back to the community.

PPOnline

This is one of the biggest site's I've worked with. It's owned by Electric Word plc and is a case study for a Google handout. It is often commended for its use of Adsense and will often pull in over 17,000 unique user's per day.

It is a sports performance website with an online archive of over 1,000 free performance enhancing articles. It originated from a subscription newsletter established in 1990 by Sylvester Stein, a gold medal winner.

SportBusiness

This site was originally running in an old legacy CMS powered by AOLServer and Oracle and, working for Electric Word plc, I was given the task of bringing this site into the 21st century. This was the first site I made using Drupal and I learned a LOT from it, from importing data into it to structuring and theming a site. This is the site which convinced me that Drupal is capable of a lot more than most CMS's.

The site is aimed at B2B companies and provides daily news articles with an archive of over 26,000 stories plus a catalogue of reports about topics such as Sponsorship, TV Rights and Football in China. The site is now maintained by my colleague Nikos Stylianou and Electric Word are really pushing it towards a Web 2.0 site using technologies such as RSS, Blogs and content tagging.

Kasha

A good friend is working with a talented rap artist who goes by the name Kasha. He asked if I could help him out with a website so we started working together. This site is currently in its early stages, but it is certainly a step in the right direction towards a portfolio site for Kasha.

JP Active

I met John Polley while I was travelling in New Zealand. Since coming back to the UK, John's life has turned around and he has decided to start a new business as a Personal Trainer. I offered to help him out with his website and did the design and setup of this site while he provides the content.