Consultation and freelance contracts developing and maintaining WordPress/WooCommerce and Laravel websites for Balance Marketing. Websites for NT Tourism’s “Million Dollar Fish” competition, Ted’s Cameras, DAF “Do the Math” campaign, Laurent Bakery, AL‑KO, ARL brands: Sportspower, Camping World, Compleat Angler and Nitro Rods. Transactional email templates for Melbourne Airport Parking) and eDM templates for Yahoo Australia.

Gatsby/React-based statically generated websites for Fortis Development Group based on mockups with precise grid-based design and “headless” WordPress for CMS.

Contract Sass development for San Francisco-based web app startup Applauze.

Continued development of Open Source dropdown menu jQuery plugin “Superfish” and WordPress plugin “NoFollowr”.

VueJS side projects.

Sole web developer for all GDJ and Hubink web clients. Designed, developed and maintained the high-traffic Hamish & Andy website for 7 years. Devised, designed and developed other major web properties for Australia Post, Strathcona Grammar School, Children First Foundation, Fendt, Massey Ferguson, Patagonia Australia, Great Golf Courses of Australia and Nike. The original version of Premier's Active April website, being a government website, demanded conformance with strict accessibility standards.

Using Agile and test-driven processes, I teamed with developers from ThoughtWorks to build “MyAdbox” web app, around which a separate business was formed and continues to thrive today (see myadbox.com). I designed and developed the user-facing interface for (initially) Volkswagen dealerships to use, allowing them to quickly create and publish print advertisements from adaptive InDesign templates which I created to match their style guide specifications, regardless of the media space it filled. I handled all UI design and front-end development in addition to researching and implementing the InDesign Server scripting engine that formed the heart of the functionality.

I also conceived of, designed, built and successfully presented to Volkswagen Australia headquarters, a system for individual Volkswagen dealer websites to be run from a WordPress multisite installation, winning Hubink millions of dollars of income.

Design, and finished art/image retouching for branding, advertisements, and brochures for brands such as Mazda, Geelong Grammar, NZ Airlines. Designed, completed finished art and project managed Paspaley Pearls‘ prestigious annual catalogue.

The Design Department was a longtime and highly trusted fixture of the Melbourne design world. As a full-time freelance graphic designer it was my privilege to work with and learn from veteran designers Leon Kustra and Trevor Abbott, in addition to legends of advertising such as Ted Horton and David Hobby. Annual Reports, branding, stationery, advertising and brochures for a long list of prestige brands.

Working closely with Creative Director Terry Cheverton, I developed visual concepts and directed studio on their implementation. Main brands I worked on were Phillip Island Motorcycle Grand Prix, Crown Casino & Telstra.

Designed promotional materials for the Australia-wide Village Cinema chain. Mainly newspaper and and point-of-sale advertisements, snack bar packaging and posters, etc.

Compositor and prepress preparation for print of black and white section of Horse Deals Magazine, which at that time was rapidly expanding monthly publication. I dealt with customers, designed all B&W content, created impositions and prepared files for web-offset printing.

Fortis Development Group contacted me initially to create a responsive, animated landing page for their planned website for their South Yarra property development project called “Bower” Having exceeded expectations on that, Fortis asked me to continue with the rest of that website, in addition to another one for their “Ode of Toorak” development. Designed by the brilliant Graziela Machado, strict adherence to a dynamic, responsive grid layout and exacting attention to typographic detail were mandatory to honour the brand and pay homage to the nature of the properties themselves. Built from scratch using Gatsby JS, deployed to Netlify CDN, and styled with my favourite utility library, Hucssley (still in beta), it features background video, lazy-loading images, and the enquiry forms integrate with the client‘s HubSpot CRM.

Superfish is an enhanced Suckerfish-style menu jQuery plugin that takes an existing pure CSS drop-down menu (so it degrades gracefully without JavaScript) and adds many much-sought-after enhancements to improve the user experience.

In 2006, dropdown menus were problematic as it was hard to get all the interaction details right without creating a usability nightmare. Flash had often handled such interactions prior to this, but the rise of web standards demanded a more accessible solution using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I authored and maintained the Open Source plugin in order to provide a reliable cross-browser dropdown system supporting browsers from as early as Internet Explorer 5, right through to current browsers. This included a major rewrite as touch screens became ubiquitous.

Superfish was first released in 2007 to a tiny jQuery mailing list, many members of which became official jQuery team members. I would guess it to be one of the most commonly used dropdown plugins on the web, even doing service on the official White House website and Barack Obama's own website.

The plugin is still widely used today, despite a malware product unfortunately deciding to use the same name! I no longer use the plugin myself as I find modern CSS capable of providing most, if not all of the features it provided.

This side project is a tool intended to be used during traditional table-top roleplaying games to remove the tedium and cognitive overhead of tracking effects and character turns during combat situations. Built with Vue JS and Realtime Firebase Database, styled with Tailwind CSS and designed on-the-fly in-browser, this was a deep dive into the more advanced aspects of building a Progressive Web App with Vue CLI. It features full offline support, expanded features for logged in users, individual user theming via CSS custom properties saved in localstorage, realtime data syncing between roleplayers, and SRD monster API integration for easy encounter creation.