Here you are welcome to browse the websites which I have designed or have contributed to substantially. Each website includes notes about any specific features it employs.

Lorelly Wilson (May 2007)

Lorelly Wilson runs a small company which provides fun and insightful scientific lectures and primary-age classes with experiments and demonstrations. I was asked to create a website where the details about her work could be advertised, as well as detailing experiments and notes from her recent talks for the students to try at home.

Functionally speaking, the website has an administration system allowing new experiments and new talks to be added, along with files and other useful information. This is protected in a password-protected administration system.

The design of the website went through several iterations before the client was happy with it. It was not easy to create a professional website with a "fun" element to make it accessible for 10-year olds. The use of a "corporate"-style image at the back and a more funky, bright heading worked well, as did the overall relaxed tone of the site.

Traveller's Tales Intranet (Created 2006, and updated regularly since)

Traveller's Tales is the UK-leading company in the field of computer games development. It has created several popular games, including Lego Star Wars and Transformers. I was asked to create an internal-only intranet for them to organise information and create a centralised location for oft-used information and data.

Naturally, the website is confidential and is internal only, so I am unable to link to it. The features of the intranet are advanced, however, with a complex administration system to allow users to add new pages, content, employee details and news with ease. The pages can easily be added, removed, or moved around the menu, all through the administration panel. The site itself has a personalised "front end", giving users information about the number of overtime hours they have, as well as other details specific to the employee.

The website also integrates 3rd party content, such as bug databases, photo galleries and calendars, as well as plenty of my own content specific to the projects that were being created and the ongoing requests of employees and management.

Management at Traveller's Tales have often commented on how pleased they are with how useful and effective the intranet is.

32 Eastern Road (June 2006)

JonMayer.net happily takes on small-scale projects. In this case, the client wanted to sell their house privately, and asked us to design a simple and clean website in order to show photos and give house information. The website was quickly created and thus costs were kept low.

By employing a design similar to the one you are viewing here at JonMayer.net, the client saved money. She was clearly happy with the basic layout of this page and was happy that I would be able to cut costs by simply giving a new facelift to a pre-used design.

This website was created within 24 hours, from start to publish time, which benefited the client. Within the budget agreed, JonMayer.net also designed and created leaflets to help spread word of the house sale.

National Heritage.org.uk (May 2006)

The Kent-based charity National Heritage asked me to redesign their current website with a clean and modern design. They were keen to ensure they could update the site by themselves and provide users with a professional and respectable online profile.

The client worked with me carefully to design the feel of the site. My main influences for the colour scheme was the charity's quarterly magazine and I scanned the front page of one issue to ensure the colours matched exactly. The design was initially more intricate than the final version you see nowadays - this was the result of several comments the client had and I agree that the finished version does look good. Pink and blue are not the easiest colours to use!

As with many of my sites, this one features an extensive online administration system which allows the client to add museum event details, articles and links. On top of this I am on hand to update the site for them on an occasional basis.

The client commented that JonMayer.net had done a "wonderful job" and were "extremely grateful " for the successful redesign.

FilmJudge.co.uk (Jan 2006, redesigned Jan 2007)

FilmJudge is a UK-based website which reviews popular films, both old and new. I was asked to create a complete site "from scratch" which looked professional but friendly. The client requested the chance to have a large impact on the design and, through regular correspondence, we worked together to refine the layout and colour scheme of the site.

Like my other PHP-based websites, this one has a functional online admin system allowing the client to update nearly all the areas of the site which he wanted editable control of. The admin system allows him to post, edit and delete new reviews, news, features and "top 10" details. All but the latter of these automatically self-archive, and the front page is designed to show only the latest content, as specified by the client. Searching for film reviews is a simple task - they can be listed all on one page, or can be viewed by starting letter. The site even ensures that films such as "The American President" appear under "A", rather than "T" - a small but significant feature which was appreciated by the client.

The visual design has recently been redesigned by myself to more neatly fit in updated content. Colours were suggested by the client, and I designed the overall layout. The logo at the top was designed by myself based on suggestions by the client, a sleek and neat header with fun touches such as a judge's wig sitting on the J.

The client commented that "The nicest thing about JonMayer.net was that every little quirk I requested was put into the finished product. Alongside the ease at which they created an Admin system for me, they also managed to fully integrate an affiliate system into the site.".

SandwichGuide.co.uk (Sep 2005)

SandwichGuide.co.uk was a website created for a client. My role was to take the current site, which was already clean and functional, and move the site to a database-based system. This ensured that the webmaster could then focus on writing great reviews for the sandwiches he was rating, without having to worry about updating three separate pages at the same time.

By employing an online administrator panel, new reviews can instantly be added, edited or deleted in seconds, all without the need for specialised FTP software. This alone made the webmaster's job much more enjoyable and easy. The added benefits of a PHP/MySQL system were a bonus - a specialised search system for his visitors, an automatically updating front page featuring the most recent reviews, and specific "store" pages which were created on-the-fly. The client also requested a feature where (unregistered) visitors could rate the sandwiches themselves to create an "average user rating" for each sandwich, the top five of which were also included on the front page.

Style-wise, the design (at the request of the client) maintained a clinical and minimalist feel.

The client commented that "It took less than a week for JonMayer.net to come up with a entire re-design and database system. I was in regular contact throughout, and was even assisted with hosting issues. The finalised system is an absolute doddle to use".

"Evil Planet" (January 2004)

Evil Planet continued where RepRev left off, focusing on providing excellent content with a refreshingly fun layout. As you may notice, it didn't require a redesign of the layout to achieve this - the similarities with RepRev are clear - but the funky visual style created by a friend ensured that I could build the content into an attractive and engaging mould.

Evil Planet was a larger site and at times more difficult to build whilst keeping a clean and navigatable look. A mixture of sensible in-site linking and clean navigation in the inner sections of the site were important.

The top bar, currently shown in orange, is a place for advertisements, a feature which is often required in today's websites. You may notice that it is off-centre: this was designed and aimed to complete the quirky look of the site. It also meant that the fixed size of the banner didn't constrict the site for people on a low monitor resolution - the site scaled perfectly to all resolutions of 800x600 and above.

The accompanying forums to this website are still very much alive and can be found here.

"RepRev" (2003)

RepRev, now standing as a resource rather than an active site, was the first website that I made a significant contribution to. Whilst I cannot claim to have designed the visual style, I did code the site, write the vast majority of the content and continue to update it for a number of years.

The site's striking visual style nicely matches the content of the computer game around which it focuses. Featuring several interactive features, such as polls and forums, the site was easy to navigate and focused around the important task of providing the latest news to fans.

The site was simple to keep up to date due to sensible design decisions such as ensuring the side navigation bars were located in a single file, meaning that changes made in the one file were reflected throughout the whole site.