Blake Butcher - Web Development Portfolio

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

April 2009 – current

ABC News
Lead developer for redesign that launched February 2010.

Radley Yeldar

July 2008 – February 2009 (8 months)

easyJet plc - Annual report and accounts 2008
Redesign of existing annual report system. Major modification of HTML, CSS, jQuery front-end and some tweaking of the Java back-end.
Westbury Conservatories
HTML, CSS and jQuery
Sage - Investor Relations
Site refresh to match redesign of main site.

The following sites were not launched before my departure, or they have since been redesigned. Creation of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript templates. Assisting with integration issues into Java CMS or Sharepoint back-ends

Fremantle Media
SVG Capital
Advent
Baker Tilly
Arup

Adgistics

July 2007 – June 2008 (1 year)

Responsibility

Optimising of front-end and adding new content to existing sites. PSD and Flash provided by designer. Creating new themes for existing sites.

Have also gained some experience creating front-ends for Flex web applications.

Constraints

Most sites using .NET framework (poor markup). Have tried to strip away as much markup as possible but there were limitations in the back-end.

Sites

Adgistics.com
Static site. Cleaned up existing HTML and CSS to validate. Replaced image-based primary navigation with text-based navigation. Has since been redesigned.
Vodafonebrand.com
AMS for Vodafone built in .NET (restricted access)
Goodyear Marketing Extranet (restricted access)
Intercontinental Hotels brand (restricted access)
Canon Brand Audit Tool
Adidas

Disability Services Queensland, Queenland Government

January 2007 – March 2007 (3 months)

Responsibility

HTML content creation for government sites. Job requests from internal government clients. Job times varies from 10 minutes to several days. A little bit of CSS, JavaScript, and server-side scripting.

Constraints

Strong focus on semantic and valid markup. Quality control user scripts were run in Opera to review code to ensure markup met government standards.

Sites

Department of Communities
Department of Communities - Intranet
Disability Services Queensland
Disability Services Queensland - Intranet
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships - Intranet

…and some small sub sites

Aspedia

September 2004 – December 2006 (2 years, 3 months)

Responsibility

I would receive a PSD from the designer and slice it into optimised images. The designer also provided any Flash content. I would create a copy of our CMS product to create the new site. I would then modify the CSS and HTML to match the design. I would also configure menus and pages ready for client to add content via a WYSIWYG editor.

My other role was to develop the CMS product (based on PostNuke) and templates (Smarty) that were used to power the sites. Most of the sites were using a shared code backend and their own database.

Constraints

Short time frames. Small sites being being churned out in a production line situation. Quantity was far more important than quality. This was part of the reason for using a table based layout. Themes for PostNuke CMS.