Hello, welcome to the porfolio of me, Abe Cole. I'm a freelance graphic designer located in Winchester, Hampshire, who is currently focusing on web site design. I'm still in the process of building my portfolio between work, so please check out some of my work below and check back soon.
I was contracted to shape up the current Miss Leeds website and convert it into an easily updateable WordPress theme. In roughly 3 working days I was able to clean up the site's old HTML and optimize it for search engines, then create the theme template and associated style sheet allowing user's with limited CSS knowledge to easily update content.
After having produced the original Southwark Woodcraft site years ago it came time for a new member of the organisation to begin managing the updates and rather than just give them access to the old site I thought I'd redesign the site and quickly build a WordPress back end to allow updates to be made with less hassle and create a more communial feel to the site.
I created this site from scratch based on the ACA team's input and feedback from various draft designs I had given them.
After development I worked along side Andrew Longsden to add copywritten content and improve the sites market apperance.
Lexicon Auto Services required a new website to advertise their services and secure new customers. The site is still in development but please feel free to look around and check back soon.
Upcoming singer/songwrite Nicola Sipprell required a new site as a base for her career and fans. The site utilizes WordPress to create an interactive community where user's can sign up and have their own profile page.
JQuery has been used to create more interactive content aswell as page saving solutions. I always try to make my pages suitable for any browser and viewing experience this includes making javascript features degrade gracefully.
This site was designed for the Evans Baby movie produced and written by Peter Lowe. The site itself is quite simple with just 4 pages displaying the basic information and a few pictures of the film.
This after school youth group needed a simple site to represent the services they provide. Through a custom built backend content management system the site can be edited by the group's staff and adminstration.
I created a colourful up to date design to replace A Dream Wedding previous website. The content was also rewritten to be search engine friendly, thus increasing the flow of visitors to the site.
Jessica asked me to design and develop a simple portfolio website. The site has been search engine optimized using custom rewrite rules and correctly written XHTML.
My experience with MooTools allowed me to build an interactive gallery and slideshow to display her products.
Suicidesound is a group of DJs who produce and perform Dubstep. I created a custom WordPress theme for their site as they specifically wanted a backend which is easy to use and very reliable.
As a member of the Southwark Woodcraft Folk I produced this website to allow leaders of our youth group to provide up to date information.
For the backend I built a custom content mamangement system that utilizes PHP and JavaScript to allow interactive administation.
This is a simple custom WordPress theme to allow staff of this play group to post about events and news.
WordPress is an ideal platform for very easy-to-use, efficent and organised blogging. I have experince in custom WordPress widgets, plugins and functions allowing me to create content suited to client's needs.
This site is still in development, for the Unite Against Fascism movement.