South Island Rowing Inc. are a voluntary organisation that operates and maintains the Meridian Rowing Centre on the shores of Lake Ruataniwha in the South Island of New Zealand. Great sport, awesome community, but their website was well past its best-by. This project involved the development and launch of a modernised website with improved user […]
Better Boyfriend – 2D PC game
Improve your boyfriend so he’s better than all the rest! Nag and encourage your boyfriend to level him up… If you are vigilant, your boyfriend will learn to complete tasks without you reminding him, and will start proactively doing nice things for you! Working with a game developer I designed, built and launched a 2D […]
HeliMan
HeliMan is a custom iOS app built for a helicopter operator. Heli(copter) Man(ifest) replaced paper manifest forms which pilots must fill out before flights, which meant manifest information was being stored digitally, and pilots weren’t spending as long completing the forms. Some of the skills required for this project include: business analysis & wireframing, technical […]
TradeAdvisor – the next big thing?
After a bad experience with a tradie, this project came to life. Travellers can rely on TripAdvisor to scope out the quality of services – why not extend that concept to tradespeople? This project has called on a number of skills: wireframing & technical discovery, WordPress build, copy writing, content curation, and SEO. http://tradeadvisor.co.nz/
How long is a piece of string – custom PHP game
Part joke, part learning exercise, www.howlongisapeaceofstring.com seeks to answer that common, supposedly unanswerable question: how long is a piece of string? Initially the site was a very simple game that would work out the average length of a piece of string, given all user-inputted values to date. Then a friend hacked the system and spammed […]
Kiwiana Tours – ecommerce solution & online presence
7 years after their website and booking engine were custom built by a student, Kiwiana Tours were ready to upgrade to something more elegant and powerful. Although their existing solution was bespoke, it was also old, and didn’t meet the current needs of the company – especially in the realms of processing orders, which was […]
Living FODMAP – health and wellness for IBS sufferers
This project started close to home and evolved into a resource hub for sufferers of IBS (irritable bowel syndrome). When the acronym “FODMAP” first entered my life – via a friend, it sort of swept over me and was forgotten. The second time, when it was my partner, I was forced to sit up and […]
Kalin Builders – simple, beautiful, and effective
Two years after I first built the Kalin Builders site on Concrete5, I updated the site to WordPress and packed it full of SEO. Kalin Builders are a small but forward-thinking bunch who identified the opportunity to expand their business with minimal effort by means of an online presence. For a relatively small one-off cost […]