Hello. I’m Alex Peattie, a freelance web developer & designer based in the UK.
Virtual Sustainable Community
Interactive microsite
An interactive model of a sustainable community, that, despite appearances, is Flash-free! Uses the lastest HTML5/CSS3 features where available, but degrades gracefully to maintain cross-browser compatability. Written in jQuery. Developed in conjuction with Web Expectations.
Virtual Sustainable Community
Interactive microsite
An interactive model of a sustainable community, that, despite appearances, is Flash-free! Uses the lastest HTML5/CSS3 features where available, but degrades gracefully to maintain cross-browser compatability. Written in jQuery. Developed in conjuction with Web Expectations.
PrepCode.com
Programming education app
A Ruby on Rails powered online learning app, Prepcode combines high-quality, easy to follow tutorials with a unique social gaming system - with the aim of making learning programming and CS fundamentals enjoyable. The site - using MySQL and connecting with IDEOne API on the backend - launches publicly in September 2011.
UNESCO Living Heritage of Wales
Website and logo design for UN organisation
An identity design project for UNESCO Wales, designing a logo and website prototype. Living Heritage of Wales is part of the UNESCO's drive to preserve the intangible cultural heritage of 127 participating countries worldwide.
BRASS Research Centre
Large site, powered by PHP CMS
A large site, with over 800 internal pages split across multiple categories. Accordingly, a structured MySQL database was integrated with a custom CMS, to keep the various projects, publications and new items organised. The site pulls updates from the Centre's twitter account, and also houses a separate videos microsite. Developed in conjuction with Web Expectations.
Greni.us
GRE preparation app
A web-app designed to help students prepare for the GRE exam, the site is designed to be compatible on desktop and mobile browsers. Powered by a custom MySQL/Ruby on Rails backend, Greni.us launches publicly Fall 2011.
Energy crunch tool
Online analytics tool
An online self-assessment site for businesses, the Energy crunch tool reviews whether enterprises are ready for increasing energy prices. The front end was written in HTML5, and leverages jQuery and jQuery UI to present users with an intuitive, easy-to-use questionnaire interface. The back-end is powered by Ruby on Rails, with a Redis datastore.
Technology
- Ruby on Rails
- jQuery
- HTML5
- Redis
URL
Forthcoming (Summer 2011)
My Skills
Web design
Ruby on Rails
HTML5/CSS3
JS/jQuery
SQL
Great
Great
Great
Great
Good
PHP
*nix
Mobile web
node.js
NoSQL
Good
Good
Good
Still learning
Still learning