After about 2 months of on and off designing / coding, i’ve finally managed to relaunch wallpaperjoe.com.   The backend to the former incarnation was proving to be slightly dated, so I upgraded it to the same as for my other site desktopwallpapers.co.uk.  This provided better functionality in terms of adding photos.  I created quite a nice php script which automatically resizes the photos into numerous different thumbnail and full size dimensions.  Along with that, I wanted to add a blog to write photography related posts and showcase some great wallpapers found elsewhere on the net.  This proved to be quite a challenge, but mostly it’s been a success using the awesome wordpress.

Launched my latest website - PhotoTube.tv. This site queries the Flickr API to search for desktop wallpapers. I’ve been getting to grips with some pretty cool tools including Blueprint CSS, Drop Down menu frameworks, jQuery and of course the Flickr API.

A number of years have passed and the design for desktopwallpapers.co.uk was beginning to look a bit dated. It was due an overhaul, and i’m pretty happy with the result. It’s a difficult task creating a website which produces a decent income as well as looks attractive. e.g. The more ads on a website, the uglier the site looks. I think I’ve reached a suitable balance and the design is clean and easy to read whilst at the same time making good use of empty space for advertising.

You can view the finished site at http://www.desktopwallpapers.co.uk

The Internet Doctor theme

This is a website template for the Internet Doctor project. The brief was to create a generic style that can be adopted for varying subject matter. Apart from the logo, all the elements of the site are created in XHTML and CSS therefore multiple colour schemes can be easily adopted. The initial concept was created in Photoshop and upon aproval converted to XHTML and CSS

The High Voltage Laboratory is part of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the university of Southampton. They wanted a new website which reflected the design style of the main university website

My aim was to create an eye catching image which appropriately represented the high voltage lab, in this case it was electricity, and build the website around that image.

The site which went live is slightly different to my proposed design and can be viewed here

joeprice.co.uk old website design

multimedia-house.co.uk

Multimedia House was the final year project I created for my degree. Based on multimedia technology found within the home, it allows the user to virtually walk through a high-tech apartment and interact with various 3D objects. The main tools used to produce this project included:

• Flash MX
• XML
• 3D Studio Max
• Director 8.5