yourperformer.co.uk brings together musical artists and event organisers in a unique setting where artists compete for gigs.

The website utilises the Communty Builder and a third-party reverse auction component.

I have just begun a major development project on behalf of Oakridge Online for one of their largest pharmaceutical clients. With an international team of consultants Oakridge will soon be delivering a blended training programme to a large number of deligates from the US, Sweden and UK with plans to pick up in Bangalore, Asia Pacific and Moscow.

Oakridge Online is based on the increasingly popular Course Management System or Virtual Learning Environment Moodle. The new 360 degree assessment tool that I am currently developing for Oakridge Training and Consulting integrates seamlessly with Moodle but if needed can be implemented as an entirely stand-alone application. Oakridge will be developing questions for the 360 degree feedback to support their Decision Making programme. The Feedback application however is being designed as a generic 360 degree feedback tool using the rating-scale question type typical of the 360 degree assessment model, so Oakridge Training and Consulting will be able to develop unique 360 degree assessments for all their future online programmes.

e-cards are a great way to keep in touch with friends and family. japanga.co.uk offers a great free service for sending anime e-cards quickly and easily without registration and it’s completely free. Make your selection from over 4,000 anime walpapers and send your anime e-cards to up to 5 people at a time.

send your anime e-cards now from japanga.co.uk

Sefton Court is a Michelin approved bed and breakfast in Llandudno, North Wales.

David White of Whitekite design, a close working partner of mine, won the contract to redesign the hotel website and he asked me to develop the front-end online booking system with room availability checker together with a back-end booking management application. Having looked at the option of a Joomla!-based CMS with room booking component I was commissioned in the end to develop an entirely original and bespoke application. We are now very close to launching the site, so please come back shortly to see the results!

This bespoke online hotel booking managment system includes:

• Entirely bespoke fully featured hotel booking management system
• Online automated room availability checker
• Room reservation application with secure hosting
• Encrypted temporary storage of payment details
• Hooks up easily to any online payment gateway
• Back-end administration for managing rooms, images, descriptions, rates
• Back-end booking management for manual override
• Automated email notifications
• PHP, MySQL, SSL, cryptography

playpics is a new subscription website for teachers. This new educational resource offers a large library of original images designed specially to support the primary school curriculum.

The basis of this project involves a lot of image manipulation and database development while the later phases are to feature more web 2.0 online community functionality.

As this is a brand new venture I am unable to give too much away at this stage. But watch this space.

Airstone is a visual design partnership based in Liverpool who’s vision it is ‘to produce exciting and unexpected work that gets results’.I worked with Airstone on the CSER  website converting their graphic design into a fully functional Joomla website. We are currently working on a number of other projects together.

Lucy Martin has 10 years agency experience and was previously Creative Director for a Live Events agency in Manchester. She has worked for a variety of clients including Coors, Phones4U, Sainsbury’s, HBOS, NWDA, Hollyoaks, and Nike.

Tim Irvine has an eclectic portfolio of work as an accomplished Illustrator, Photographer and Tattoo Artist. He is highly skilled with an eye for detail. He also has the business brains, with a previous career in finance where he spent several years in Sales and Account Management for a large International Bank. He has recently launched a new business Stigma Body Art.

Launched on the 3rd of March 2009, japanga.co.uk is a new website for anybody crazy about Japanese pop culture. In particular anime art, J-pop and J-rock.

The ultimate goal of this website is to provide free, easy access to the greatest collection Japanese paraphernalia on the web. The site is still very young, so there is a long way to go.  However, I think it’s off to a good start with already more than 3,000 anime wallpapers! japanga.co.uk also provides access to information on more than 1,200 J-Pop and J-Rock artists including so far 23 videos and 41 free mp3 downloads.

The site uses a lot of database interaction for uploading and downlowding files, serving other dynamic content and tracking/recording user interaction. WordPress is used for the blog section and phpBB is used for the forums. There are a host of more interactive, social networking features planned and you can follow the development of this project on the Japanga Blog.

The Centre for Solar Energy Research is working on a Feasibility Study sponsored by the Welsh Assembly Government and hosted by Glyndŵr University. I was commissioned to develop a Joomla! theme based on the designs of Lucy Martin of Aristone Studio.

I also manage the domain name cser.org.uk and provide Joomla! support and training through my company Loquela.