GKWeb.net - Portfolio

As described on the home page, I work with websites for a living. Due to the commercial nature of this and trying to maintain the corporate image, these tend to be quite boring sites but they are of great value to the people who use them.

This has taught me various things though. The first is that I never produce flat HTML pages, all of my sites are data driven by MySQL which is delivered to the browser by PHP (at work it is MSSQL and ASP).

This gives tremendous flexibility and allows the changing of the site content at the drop of a hat. Add to this the use off header & footer templates along with CSS and the entire look, feel & funcionality of the site can be changed by editing a few files. This is why I'm always changing this site - because I can!

All of the personal and client websites are also hosted by me.

My personal websites

	Project:	GKWeb
	URL:	gkweb.net
	Uses:	XHTML, CSS, PHP & MySql
	Description:	This is my main website. It uses a lot of clever stuff and is fully XHTML and CSS compliant. You should know this one - you're on it!

	Project:	Isambard Kingdom Brunel
	URL:	mybrunel.co.uk
	Uses:	XHTML, CSS, PHP & MySql
	Description:	Another site to try out a new layout I was working on at work. It needed to be about something so I chose a hero of mine - Brunel.

	Project:	Titanic
	URL:	mytitanic.co.uk
	Uses:	XHTML, CSS, PHP & MySql
	Description:	The Titanic website. Lots of stuff about the the famous White Star Line vessel. It uses the overall workings of my main site but with extra levels of navigation.

	Project:	Vincent
	URL:	myvincent.co.uk
	Uses:	XHTML, CSS, PHP & MySql
	Description:	This used to be a sub section of my own site but I decided it needed a different look. To this end I set it up on it's own domain. It is a content-rich site with a vast database containing huge amounts of historical data.

	Project:	Ford Granada
	URL:	fordgranada.com
	Uses:	XHTML, CSS, PHP & MySql
	Description:	The Granada website. Lots of stuff about the UK Ford Granada from the 70's.

	Project:	Kawasaki GPZ1000RX
	URL:	mygpz.co.uk
	Uses:	XHTML, CSS, PHP & MySql
	Description:	Website about my 1985 Kawasaki GPZ1000RX.

	Project:	Kawasaki 1100 Zephyr
	URL:	myzephyr.co.uk
	Uses:	XHTML, CSS, PHP & MySql
	Description:	Website about my 1993 Kawasaki 1100 Zephyr. If you want the original 'retro' bike - here it is.

Work websites

	Project:	Electrical Contractors Association
	URL:	eca.co.uk
	Uses:	ASP, DHTML & MSSql
	Description:	This is the website of the company I work for. I have been maintaining this site for about 5 years now and it is has just undergone a complete redesign and re-write.

	Project:	Part P
	URL:	partp.co.uk
	Uses:	ASP, DHTML & MSSql
	Description:	This is a site aimed at electrical contractors and enables them to get tested to comply to the governments regulation under Part P of the building regs 'Competent Person' scheme. The administration of the pages is done via a custom written content management system and all of the page content is stored in a database.

	Project:	Part L
	URL:	partl.co.uk
	Uses:	ASP, DHTML & MSSql
	Description:	This is a site aimed at electrical contractors and enables them to get tested to comply to the governments regulation under Part L of the building regs 'Competent Person' scheme. The administration of the pages is done via a custom written content management system and all of the page content is stored in a database.

	Project:	Competent Person Protal
	URL:	competentperson.co.uk
	Uses:	ASP & MSSql
	Description:	This is a site for all of the Part P Competent Person scheme operators to drop data into for the public to find a registered person in their area.

	Project:	Electrical Contractors Insurance Company
	URL:	ecic.co.uk
	Uses:	ASP & MSSql
	Description:	Our company website for the insurance division of the group.

	Project:	National Electrotechnical Training
	URL:	net-works.org.uk
	Uses:	ASP & MSSql
	Description:	National Electrotechnical Training (NET) is the former National Training Organisation (NTO) for the Electrotechnical industry sector.

	Project:	ELECSA
	URL:	elecsa.co.uk
	Uses:	ASP & MSSql
	Description:	This is a site aimed at electrical contractors and enables them to get tested to comply to the governments regulation under Part P of the building regs 'Competent Person' scheme. The administration of the pages is done via a custom written content management system and all of the page content is stored in a database.

Client websites

	Project:	Trevor Newton
	URL:	trevornewton.co.uk
	Uses:	XHTML, CSS, PHP & MySql
	Description:	Trevor Netwon is an artist and this site is his gallery. It is controlled entirely by a Content Management System (CMS) designed and written by me.

	Project:	Hazel Hall
	URL:	hazelart.co.uk
	Uses:	Flash^TM, HTML, DHTML, PHP & MySql
	Description:	Another artists website. This site is a gallery showing all of Hazel's major works.

	Project:	Kent ROSPA
	URL:	kentrospa.org.uk
	Uses:	XHTML, CSS, PHP & MySql
	Description:	Site for the road safety organisation. The site is fully dynamic with a bespoke content management system.

	Project:	The Heaters
	URL:	theheaters.co.uk
	Uses:	XHTML, CSS, PHP & MySql
	Description:	This site belongs to a rather unusual music group. Their style on stage is reflected in the somewhat loud colours on their pages. If you think the site is loud, you should see the band perform!

	Project:	King George V
	URL:	kgvpub.com
	Uses:	XHTML, CSS, PHP & MySql
	Description:	Website for a local pub.

	Project:	Medway Beer Festival
	URL:	medwaybeerfestival.com
	Uses:	XHTML, CSS, PHP & MySql
	Description:	This is the website of a beer festival in my area.

	Project:	The Frog and Toad
	URL:	thefrogandtoad.com
	Uses:	XHTML, CSS, PHP & MySql
	Description:	Website for a local pub.