A simple template editing project, needed to make a couple of edits the way they wanted it, completed in 2 days.

This was perhaps my best and most favorite project ever. It required to go to their office daily for 2 weeks straight and work with them on creating a new website from scratch where anyone without knowledge of coding etc could login and add properties, and manage everything. It is a full fluid width template powered by Joomla and a front-end database application where properties can be managed changing the way the business is run. All tenants and landlords are able to login from the front-end to manage everything, receive payments and so on. This is a completely different system that no other real estate company has tried making everything much more efficient. On the television at the front of the office all their properties are displayed with details sliding across to others. The database application is very secure syncing their updates with the website and creating flyers for properties ready to be printed and displayed. This is where I had full control over the project including how everything was designed and thinking about how everything can be managed compared to their last system of managing all properties via an Excel document. Backups are automatically done everyday so in case of failures the data will still be stored from any day within the last 60 days. I enjoyed every bit of this project and is perhaps my best work yet.

A very simple and quick project, all that was needed to do was to copy a template design manually to match their PHPbb2 forums, completed within half an hour.

Well this did require quite a bit of design work on VirtueMart and the actual template too, I just had to give it a bit more of a modern look but even though I always like to make suggestions and surprise the client which has always worked for me, this client required specific template changes and everything was done exactly the way he wanted it to be which is not a problem too as it makes things easier for me that way anyway. Project was completed after 2 days mainly communicating over Skype and everyone was happy. A great project for any decent freelancer to take on and was well enjoyed.

Well web designing is not a simple task, you need to have a very creative mind as well as knowledge of understanding the language of the web. This design was inspired by a design I made on paper 2 years ago, and a couple weeks back after clearing out everything in my house I found it again lying around and I was amazed how I came up with such ideas back then that I wouldn’t today, shows that the younger you are the more crazier your imagination, and it was all a realistic design too, the one on paper was a bit more complicated so I changed it round just a bit to make it simple and fast-loading. The colours I never even thought about until I actually started the design on Photoshop, and when it came to thinking of a colour scheme i chose random shades of blue, created a couple of gradients and here we are. The logo design was also done on paper and I designed black and white and inverted versions in Illustrator and then bringing it to life by importing it into Photoshop as all decent web designers know that logos are best created in vector format, it not only keeps them simple but they can then be used for t-shirts, mugs, stationary and so on.

The new design is powered by WordPress making it very easy to post onto the site as a blog while have the AJAX powered carousel integrated into the system for me to show off my latest works though none of them really have been full web design projects just code editing and so on. I did think of using Flash at first but I’ve noticed that javascript effects have pretty much replaced Flash now and the only thing it is good for really is advertisements or gaming. Designing a website is not all about the looks, it’s about the functionality and content too.

Hope you all enjoy the new look =).