News
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
15th July 2009
For over a year I've been working with Studio.GS on a very exciting project for one of my favourite artists, Nick Cave. The website is an online resource for a huge collection of photos, music, journal entries and other scrapbook bits. It went live yesterday and I think it's rather splendid
A Bespoke CMS, sits behind the scenes which allows for a huge level of versatility of content while enforcing strict design rules.
EUROPARC Federation
31st October 2008
With a membership scattered over countries all over the world it's important for EUROPARC Federation to have a smart website to help communicate the work they do as well as improve internal communication between members.
A Bespoke CMS, multi-language support and members only content as well as a solid XHTML/CSS UI with progressively enhanced JQuery components makes for an engaging user experience and a bright new image
A new site for Caxton
11th July 2008
Put live earlier in the week, the new website for Caxton Furniture uses a careful blend of graphic and live text to recreate the look and feel of the Caxton printed brand.
Once again a slick web 2.0 UI is based on jQuery and makes browsing through the site a pleasure.
Ken Adams. Artist
30th June 2008
With a career spanning over 40 years it was high-time the sizable portfolio of Ken Adams found a home on the web. A super-clean design and a subtle and stylish JQuery based UI sets off this online exhibition.
Winnie The Witch
25th June 2008
The latest project for OUP is this all-new website for the dappy, accident-prone and utterly lovable Winnie the Witch (and of course her cat Wilbur).
Once again Mark Burvill at Galactus has supplied the lovely flash and design work and I've built in a PHP back-end and a clean accessible version for visually disabled users, those without flash and SEO.
You Love Her Coz Shes Dead
4th June 2008
You Love Her Coz Shes Dead are a super digital electro trash trio who have just won Best Electronica Act 2008 at the Indie Music awards 2008. The site I've built them integrates SEO friendly URLs with a slick Web 2.0 interface and YouTube feeds.
Here-Be-Monsters!!
2nd April 2008
Ratbridge is populated by a variety of odd creatures including boxtrolls and cabbageheads. This new site aims to promote the Here-Be-Monsters series of children's books, as well as capture the strange world described within.
We've built two versions of the site, a fully animated flash microsite and a clean, semantic and accessible HTML version.
Sharp End First
20th March 2008
I've built a promotional micro-site for the forthcoming debut album from bath based 5-piece “Sharp End First”. The site streams all tracks from “Rule the Day” as well as allowing visitors to register for alerts and send a link to a friend.
The Kills - Midnight Boom
20th February 2008
I've had a lot of fun working on the promotion of the new Kills Album “Midnight Boom”.
The site, www.thekills.tv, has some pretty nice features including a user-customisable skin and a CMS that works on Blackberry mobile phones so the site can be updated while the band tour.
Dinosaur Cove
25th January 2008
Dinosaur Cove, my second site for Oxford University Press, has gone live. Dinosaur Cove is a fantastic new series full of adventure, action, and dinosaurs! There are four adventures out in March 2008, and lots more to follow.
www.dinosaurcove.co.uk has two versions, a flash microsite and a clean, semantic and accessible HTML version.
Hero.com & Villain.net
17th January 2008
My first project for Oxford University Press has gone live. Supporting the books Hero.com & Villain.net, whichsideareyouon.co.uk is split into a full-fat flash microsite and a clean, semantic and accessible HTML version.
This initial phase is a teaser and will be developed over the next few months. Watch this space!
Love Earth
25th December 2007
The first project that I have been working on at BBC Worldwide has gone live! Loveearth.com is the supporting website for "Earth" a feature length natural history documentary about the planet Earth. The site provides a wealth of information about the film as well as additional functionality such as the ability to track animals such as polar bears and whales and a making of blog.
The two sections I have been involved with are a dedicated kids section (http://www.loveearth.com/uk/kids) and a postcards section (http://www.loveearth.com/uk/postcards) that integrates with google maps.
BBC Worldwide
25th October 2007
I am very excited to say that my first contract client will be BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of BBC. I'll be working in the digital delivery team on a variety of high-profile and challenging web projects.
The BBC are world leading in many aspects of web development and are quick to embrace new technologies like mobile web and RSS. In particular, I am a big admirer of the commitment to web accessibility the BBC websites have demonstrated.
W3C HTML Working Group
19th October 2007
I am now an invited expert in the W3C HTML Working Group. The primary objective of the group is to develop the next version of HTML and it's an honour for me to be one of the 488 people worldwide that will work on this project.
I am looking forward to many in-depth discussions with other group members about the various topics surrounding the development of this next flavour of HTML. It's going to be very interesting to get a real inside peek at the technical (and no doubt political) reasons behind the decision making.
Julian Guy Ltd
14th October 2007
It's official, I am now the director of my own company "Julian Guy Ltd". It's been a dream of mine for some time now to take the years of commercial web development experience I have under my belt and start my own company doing things the way I think they should be done!
I plan to keep working on larger projects as a contractor for at least 3-6 months a year but I also want to look at smaller scale projects and things closer to my heart like music and local business and community.
Time to jump.
