Clear January have just finished work on a project with a very short deadline. In just over a week I designed and built the HinidiClasses.co.uk website for the Hindu Cultural Society (Slough).
The Hindu Cultural Society (Slough) wanted a website to promote their work in teaching Hindi in the area as well as other centres up and down the country they are affiliated with through the Hindi Samiti. The secondary aim of the site was to be scalable in the future to allow it be potentially become a website that would cover the needs of all the Hindi teaching centres all over the country.
The process worked really smoothly with the client creating all all the content in advance, Clear Jauary creating wireframes/scamps from that content and then I moved into Photoshop so get my thoughts from my head and onto a blank starting document. From there I moved into Dreamweaver to cut the design up using standards compliant, valid XHTML and CSS . Just like a project should go.
Visit HinidiClasses.co.uk.
Labels: classes, code, design, family, hindi, portfolio, teach, website
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Addactive.net is a brand new community based website for people with an active lifestyle.
As people that enjoy getting out there and getting fit and being people that love the Internet and it's communities and knowing that there was nothing out there that fitted our needs Cold In England and Clear January teamed up with another partner to create a community that enabled people to interact with each other on all sports and activity based subjects.
Addactive.net will allow users to join for free, find clubs and groups to befriend and become members of both online and offline. For example, if John wants to get involved in martial arts but has no idea where to start or what type he wants to do he can search Addactive.net for martial arts clubs in his local area that he might want to try out. From there he came talk to the clubs and find out more about them before making a fool out of himself on his first day. Or if Jenny is finding it hard to train on her own or wants to add the social aspect to going to the gym then she can search Addactive.net for people that go to her gym and start chatting online with them before meeting up and helping each other train offline.
Currently, Addactive.net is still being built but if you're interested in learning more then drop your email address (do tick the "a friend told me about Addactive" checkbox and add mark@clearjanuary.com so we know where you came from) in the form over at the Addactive.net pre-register page and check out the Official Addactive.net Blog to learn more about how we're getting along building it.
Labels: application, community, design, portfolio, sport
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Sunday morning, tired and with lots of housework to do I sat down to get out Nu (my girlfriend/business partner) and I's new venture Skill Swap Shop up and running. The key to this project was to be the word flashy so surprise surprise I did it all in Flash. The idea behind the project is to pay for our wedding a different way as we realised that we don’t have a lot of money but we do have years of experience in our chosen fields.
As the new website says, I'm a digital designer of 7 years. I specialise in creating user friendly, accessible websites that not only look great, they feel great to use as well. Over the years I've created loads of CD-ROMs, animations, presentations, banners, rolling demos, static websites and ecommerce solutions. Anything digital - I can do and do well. I've worked with clients such as O2, Honda, Tefal, Carlsberg, HSBC, The Royal of Scotland, Reed, Johnson & Johnson, Centrica, Honeywell, Regus and Marriott.
Nu is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, helping a number of areas. If you're an excellent photographer who wants more confidence in stressful situations, or you have a child about to go through their GCSE's who needs help with focus, revision and concentration, hypnotherapy is an excellent tool. There are many more area's that hypnotherapy can help with and if there's a specific issue you'd like to discuss then Nu would be happy to speak to you in person.
So if you might have something to offer us in exchange for our services, or even if you don't but would still like to get a new website or hypnotherapy session, then please get in touch.
Labels: code, design, portfolio, skill swap shop, wedding
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