Web Design

Meridian

Designed in 2003
HTML • CSS • PHP

meridian.net.au is the best example of my web design work so far. It is my own personal web site, created primarily as a means of expression of the things I enjoy, a portfolio of talents, and a resource for various topics.

Don't expect fancy graphics and multimedia – the design goals are speed and simplicity, layout and design, investigating the possibilites of CSS and HTML, and producing compliant code.

More detailed information is available in the About Site section.

Personal Music Collection

Designed in 2001
HTML • CSS • PHP • MySQL

Development of my online music database is ongoing and will be included into the Music section of this site in the near future,

I have always wanted to share my music with the Internet community but I needed to learn a few things first, namely MySQL and PHP. Developing the database was the perfect project to use as a way to learn these technologies.

Again, simplicity and speed are the main goals from a development point of view, but from a usage perspective, I want the collection to be densely cross referenced, providing links to other albums, artists, and labels.

Chupa Jerks

Designed in 2000
HTML • CSS • Javascript

A strange name for an engineering support site, but then they're strange people. The Chupa Jerks site was a internal departmental sub-site for Network Appliance support engineers.

The original site was an ad-hoc collection of web related tips, tools, and resources. My job was to reorganise the content, introduce consistency in format, and provide navigation controls.

I learned a lot by doing this site. It was an excellent opportunity to put into practice all the recommended site design principles, learn cascading style sheets, and code some Javascript.

OzCount and OzLog

Designed in 1998
HTML • CGI (using C)

OzLog was a web log retrieval system that I developed when working at OzEmail. This system allowed customers to download their site statistics or log files. The real workhorse to this site was another program I wrote (in C) to split raw log files from multiple web servers into individual customer files.

OzCount was a web counter program that OzEmail customers could use to count the number of hits on their site. OzCount was based on nph-count, an early web counter CGI program. I added other functionality such as invisible counters, checking the referrer URL to avoid spamming, and a flag to indicate whether the counter should increment or not.