Hannah's Blog Archive. Freelance web designer and programmer based in Bristol

For my latest project I worked with Diamond Lounge founder Arya Marafie to create the world’s most exclusive social network. Applications are reviewed by a committee and only a lucky few are allowed to enter.The brief for this site was to make it look and feel as exclusive as possible. The CSS and imagery had to be fast loading.

So far the site has received a huge amount of press, here’s what they have to say about it…

“(it’s) so exclusive it’s threatening to out-glam A Small World!”.
Vogue

“Facebook for the rich.”
wealth-bulletin.com

“Virtual Studio 54″
The Independent

Website: Diamond Lounge

Here is a sneak preview of The Headset Co which will be launching later this month.
It is the latest PHP fully bespoke ecommerce website that I have done. I will update the site when it is fully launched.

Until then…….

It’s been a while since my last update but I thought I would update you all with the launch of the Caroline Baker collection. Its my latest ecommerce offering and builds on the existing framework that I have written in PHP over the past year.

I am also currently working on a number of interesting PHP based AJAX projects which I will be posting shortly.
This project was managed by the HOH team

Today we launched the Digiphone website , a project which I designed and hand coded in PHP for a client selling cordless phones, headsets etc.

The client approached me earlier this year looking for a site that would be both visually appealing and would perform well in the search engines. Nothing in the development of this site was overlooked from dynamically optimizing alt tags to careful link placement for a better user experience.

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On Saturday I had the opportunity to take my first nightclub shots with my new 430ex flash at Lipstick on your collar’s first birthday party. If you live in or around Bristol and haven’t been to lipstick on your collar before then you must get tickets and go! It is the best club night in Bristol and they play such a wide variety of music.

» Pictures from the night
» LOYC MySpace

I have just entered a competition to design a banner for the Dolores ‘O Riordon site. You can see the banner and vote for me to win if you click here.

I would really appreciate your vote because I never win anything. Probably because I never enter competitions.

Over the next couple of weeks I will be publishing several articles explaining how I built costablancaholidayoptions.com. I will start off with taking you through the design process and then get onto the CSS/XHTML markup and PHP programming.

This should give readers an insight into the process that I follow when building an entire site from scratch.

This is the first posting on my brand spanking new blog, please expect ramlings galore in the coming months. The new site incorporates a lot more than just my portfolio. You can now see a gallery of my attempts at photography, and with the addition of this blog it will give people a chance to give me feedback.

I have been a member of Bristol media for just over a year. They cater for all manner of media types in Bristol and regularly organize events and seminars for freelance web developers and design agencies.

Take a look at the Bristol Media website

I have been beta testing the new and improved version of photoshop over the last couple of days and I must say I am impressed! The new toolbars are taking a little bit of getting used to, but the fast loading more than makes up for it.

The bundled Adobe Bridge CS3 is more like aperture and everything in it seems to taste a little bit sweeter than before. It is due for release in April according to the guys at photoshop TV but I guess we will have to wait and see.

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