My portfolio

Below are some selected examples of my work... the ones I’m allowed to share, anyway. A lot of my best work has been produced internally for other companies; though I can’t show that here, you can see what these companies have to say about working with me.

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Farmleigh Affair

farmleighaffair.com

Farmleigh Affair is a two day event with live performances, in Farmleigh in the Phoenix Park. The look of the site is based heavily on the great poster designs by Paul Gibney Design, and expands the visual system to better suit the web and include more content. The site also allows you to apply for tickets online, using code I previously developed for both the Salon Music Series and Farmleigh.

Work completed
Design, custom back-end development and production
Year completed
2008
Clients
Improvised Music Company and The Office of Public Works

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Van den Bergh Landscapes

vdblandscapes.ie

Van den Bergh Landscapes is a garden design company based in Bray. Along with the website itself, I designed a new logo for the company (ably assisted by John Ryan of Life Forms Design) and repurposed SlideShowPro Director, with a dash of custom PHP programming, to act as a content management system for listing projects with a dynamic slideshow of images.

Work completed
Web design, logo design, custom back-end development and production
Year completed
2008
Client
Van den Bergh Landscapes
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Village Centre Saggart

villagecentresaggart.ie

The Village Centre Saggart is a mix of commercial, residential and office properties set in a new village centre in Saggart, Co. Kildare. I designed and structured the site so that related information was clearly grouped and easy to find, and also wrote a lot of the text.

Work completed
Design, copy-writing and production
Year completed
2008
Client
Hannah Homes and Contrast
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Glasthule Opera

glasthuleopera.ie

The Glasthule Opera had its first performance in June 2008, I was commissioned to create a website to support this. For the best effect, given the tight budget, I chose to focus on the typography; keeping the tone formal and elegant. The blue “thank you” box was added later.

Work completed
Design and production
Year completed
2008
Client
Martina Flynn
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Shower Doors Direct

showerdoorsdirect.ie

What this company does should be pretty clear: they sell shower doors. Along with the visual design, I was also responsible for creating a custom shopping cart system in Rails, which integrates with RealEx for payment processing.

Work completed
Design, custom back-end development (Rails) and production
Year completed
2008
Client
Shower Doors Direct
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Rules of the Road

www.rulesoftheroad.ie

I was contracted by iQ Content to create visual designs for the Rules of the Road site. These designs were completed quickly and fit in with existing Rules of the Road material (such as the handbook).

Work completed
Visual design
Year completed
2007
Client
iQ Content
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Maynooth Community Church

maynoothcc.org

I’m a member of MCC, and joined the web team as the designer. The site runs on TextPattern, and is updated regularly with news, event information and sermons. In 2008 it won the General Assembly of the PCI Communications award; and is currently being redesigned to better suit our needs.

Work completed
Design, production, Textpattern wrangling
Year completed
2006
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Assemblies of God Ireland

agireland.org

A quick, plain and simple one-page site for the AGI.

Work completed
Design and production
Year completed
2006
Client
Assemblies of God Ireland
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Frank Flanagan Fittings

www.fff.ie

Frank Flanagan Fittings is a furniture fittings company with over thirty years experience in supplying to Irish manufacturers. I am quite happy with both how well the design of the site holds up over time, and with the custom-written javascript slideshow on the product section pages

Work completed
Design and production
Year completed
2005
Client
Frank Flanagan Fittings
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Transware PLC

transwareplc.com

As a contractor for Transware, I designed and structured the site way back in 2005, creating a new online style for them and custom icons and maps. I think it’s a testament to the quality of my work that the site has stayed essentially the same since it was created over three years ago.

Work completed
Design and production
Year completed
2005
Client
Transware PLC
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Minds

minds.nuim.ie

Back in college, I designed this site for the IT society.

Work completed
Design and production
Year completed
2004
 

Works well with others

The Contrast logo

Contrast

Contrast is a web company based in Dublin, and is run by Eoghan McCabe. I’ve worked with Contrast on several websites, and also did some XHTML and CSS work on their exception tracking app, Exceptional to help them get it ready to demo at Railsconf 08.

Contact details

Web: www.contrast.ie

Eoghan McCabe from Contrast on Dave

David Barrett is a very talented designer and a committed professional. I've worked with him on a number projects and he has always worked hard to the end, delivering great results and continuously pleasing clients.

Dave on Contrast

Contrast is dripping with talent. Eoghan in particular has a way with clients that I am rather envious of.

The iQ Content logo

iQ Content

iQ Content is “a group of usability, accessibility and content experts dedicated to creating better websites for everyone”. Along with the Rules of the Road site, I have worked with iQ on designs for several websites (produced under NDA) and provided some javascript cover.

Contact details

Web: iqcontent.com

Laurence Veale from iQ Content on Dave

Dave has worked with us on a number of successful projects and brings far more to the table than just pretty pictures. Web standards, a keen eye for usability. He’s also innovative, has clever insight and uses a scientific rigour to solve difficult design problems.

Dave on iQ Content

From what I’ve seen, iQ Content are the best company in Ireland to handle large-scale web site projects from start to finish.

The Zeraphina logo

Zeraphina

Zeraphina are a company that provide a wide range of web-related services. I worked as a contractor with Zeraphina from the summer of 2006 to the autumn of 2007, joining the web production teams on several high profile AOL projects (such as Search 7, AIM Pages) and lead the team that worked on Money & Finance.

Contact details

Web: www.zeraphina.com

Niall Milton from Zeraphina on Dave

Dave’s attention to detail was a serious boon for us on several projects. His well rounded experience and confident client-side manner meant we could put him in the field without worrying about casualties!

Dave on Zeraphina

So deep is the culture of technical proficiency here, that the managers could probably code you under the table. It was a great place to work.