Inspired creative for all types of business
Fortean Times
Online Launch Campaign
I designed this online campaign comprising of gif banners and landing page to launch the Fortean Times book "It Happened To Me",
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WHSmith
E-commerce Design
This is the current WHSmith magazine subscriptions site which I designed in 2008. I also project-managed the small team of developers responsible for the build.
Sky Sports Magazine
E-commerce Design
I am currently working on the design and code for Sky Sports magazine website UI. This project involves following strict brand guidelines and complying with usability best practice to ensure the creation of a high quality site.
BBC Green
Online Launch Campaign
Following strict BBC brand guidelines I produced this set of flash and gif banners, html email and a landing page to launch this new BBC website.
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Wicked
Online Portfolio
An early portfolio site of mine built in Flash (with a touch of PHP). Sadly never finished because I got the job the portfolio was built for and as a result I've been mega busy since.
Beautiful, hand-coded, standards compliant web design
Sky Sports Magazine
E-commerce Design
I am currently working on the design and code for Sky Sports magazine website UI. This project involves following strict brand guidelines and complying with usability best practice to ensure the creation of a high quality site.
James Callaghan
Flash Design and AS
Jim is an advertising photographer working for the automotive industry who wanted a site to impress creative directors and showcase his work. I answered the brief with a slick, clean Flash site.
WHSmith
E-commerce Design
This is the current WHSmith magazine subscriptions site which I designed in 2008. I also project-managed the small team of developers responsible for the build.
Lichfield Festival
CMS Website Design/Dev
Working from designs supplied in Photoshop, I built this site using the popular open-source CMS Mambo, giving the owners complete freedom to update their site year on year.
Love Offers
CMS Driven Template Design
Within a very short time frame I redesigned this site in it's entirety from scratch and project-managed the development. I also worked on the SEO which has since seen organice traffic more than double.
Email campaigns with conversion rates to sing about
BBC Green
Online Launch Campaign
Following strict BBC brand guidelines I produced this set of flash and gif banners, html email and a landing page to launch this new BBC website.
Bizarre Girls Book
Book Launch
Email campaign for Bizarre Girls, a book from the makers of Bizarre magazine featuring "The sexiest collection of sirens since the world was invented."
Men's Fitness
Event Promotion
Email campaign promoting the Men's Fitness Rough Track event. The campaign generated enough sign-ups to ensure the event was a great success,
Bizarre Live
Event Promotion
A weird and wonderful target market made designing this email campaign for Bizarre Live an interesting job to work on.
Magbooks
Book Launch
Dennis Publishing produce numerous spin-off books to their popular magazines and email is a cheap way to promote these titles.
Online banner advertising that's difficult to ignore
Fortean Times
Animated GIF Banners
I'm a big fan of FT. This online banner advertising campaign to launch the Fortean Times Paranormal Handbook is currently running on www.forteantimes.co.uk
Mac Guide
Animated GIF Banners
I designed and built this set of online banner ads to promote a MacUser spin-off book called The Independent Guide to the Mac. It's alway easy desiging ads on a Mac for Mac products.
BBC Green
Animated Flash Banners
Following strict BBC brand guidelines I produced a set of flash and gif banners to launch this new BBC website. I have produced creative for various areas in the BBC.
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Angry Dragon
Flash Animation
I designed this online snowboarding store's
e-commerce site and also created an animated logo with Flash. I love the puff of smoke when the boarder get's flamed by the angry dragon.
PC Upgrade Guide
Animated GIF Banners
A set of animated GIF banners to launch The Complete PC Upgrade Handbook 2010. I love the new Windows 7 branding, though it's difficult to get the gradient looking good and keep the file size down.
Curriculum Vitae
Core Skills
Hand-coded HTML, XHTML & CSS
Int. Javascript, AS, XML, PHP, jQuery
SEO
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Flash
Dreamweaver
BBEdit
Adobe Indesign
Quark Xpress
Google Analytics
Google Adwords
Multi-variate and A/B testing
Joomla / Mambo CMS
Word Press
And much, much more...
Current Employment
July 2006 – Present
Senior Web Designer/Project Manager
Dennis Publishing, London
Responsibilities include: project management and lead design of 35+
e-commerce sites, banner design, email design, CMS design, SEO, A/B and multi-variate testing, analytics, managing two web developers and a junior designer plus client facing duties. Working at Dennis has helped me to better understand the monetisation of websites, online marketing and the importance of constantly testing to ensure maximum ROI.
Nominated for employee of the year in 2009, fire marshall and company first-aider.
Previous Employment
October 2004 – July 2006
Web Designer/Director
Opus Online Ltd, London
In 2004 I set up a web design agency. I was responsible for all aspects of the business including the design and development of websites, meeting with clients, managing multiple projects, accounting, hiring freelancers and much more. I closed the business so I could concentrate more on web design than the running of a business.
April 1999 - September 2004
Art Director - Agency
Connect Advertsing, Wolverhampton
Education
1997 Wolverhampton University
BA (Hons) Design Studies
1995 Dane Valley High School
A Levels: Art & Design, Design & Technology and General Studies. For my work in DT I won The Siemens Award of Excellence.
9 GCSEs A grades in Science (Double Award) & Geography. B grades in Maths, English (Double Award), French, Art, Design & Technology. Awards of excellence in Art, Design, Maths, Science and English
DOB 16th July 1976 - British citizen
Contact me and meet the man behind the mouse
Email coopstar1976@yahoo.co.uk
Mobile
07861 686971
Write
110 Swingate Lane
Plumstead
London
SE18 2HL