::: links :::
Here are a few links, that give some idea of my UI design and development skills.
To see some screenshots of web presences I have designed and built over the years, check out my portfolio.
::: National UK Police Portal :::
While working at HTK I was UI lead for the duration of this project for more than five years.
The dynamic content and interactive features (e.g. Crime Reporting, Missing Persons, Intelligence Capture, Message Broadcasting) were all taken offline when the site was closed down. However, a skeleton www.police.uk remains, and includes an interesting feature:
The interactive forces map shows how DHTML can be used in an accessible way that meets WAI-AA criteria: View the page source, and you'll see that the zoomable, graphical map is actually an HTML Ordered List, and when the page is viewed with Javascript disabled, the content degrades to a static list. Some clever scripting extracts data from the list, and uses images and CSS filters to create the dynamic map.
::: 5k Competition Entries, 2001 and 2002 :::
The 5k Competition challenged developers to create innovative websites, with the caveat that the sum total of all files (HTML, images, Flash etc.) was no more than five kilobytes in size!
My entry was Tricolore, which I then refined and topically redesigned the following year as Tricolore XP.
As a game, Tricolore has it's flaws and limitations. As an exercise in creating interactive DHTML with a microscopic data footprint, I think it's pretty impressive!
::: DHTML Crossword Puzzles :::
A 2002 experiment in DHTML leisure software. Obviously if one wants to create something like this in the real world, one uses Flash, but it's fun playing about with stuff like this.
::: Some Personal Sites :::
I have been running, with help, my football site since 1997. Some of the code and graphics are probably that old too!
Bad News UK was/is a satirical website, with some deliberately hideous design elements used for humourous effect. I also used it as a sandbox to try out things like validating against XHTML 1.1 Strict and Print Media CSS. Warning: May Offend!