About

JamesCreative Glo is the website of James Walters a freelance web designer based in London, England. Recent work has included online shops, booking systems, numerous email campaigns, a page templating system. View a selection of work here. Until July 2008 I was senior web designer at Fitness Professionals. Since August 2008 I’ve returned to working freelance. Photo courtesy of Brittany App.

About this site

In addition to being a showcase of work, Creativeglo.co.uk is a constantly evolving WordPress and front end coding test bed. The current design features the adoption of HTML5, a large amount of jQuery and a sprinkling of CSS3.

The standards for HTML5 may still be a draft stage, but it’s adoption by Google and others meant it was worth exploring right now. There’s nothing like actually coding something to fully understand the issues raised. Likewise, while agreed standards for CSS3 could be some year’s away, CSS3 is appearing with increasing frequency across the web and, in webkit form, on iphones. While the current version of this site is light on CSS3, more CSS3 will be featuring soon.

This latest version of the site presented to the opportunity to explore typography beyond the CSS font-family property. The development phase saw the site progress switly through fully working sifr and cufon implementations before settling on using font embedded via the @font-face property.

My personal journey into WordPress started in 2008. Since then, each successive theme has reflected huge leaps in understanding. The current version of this site featured a significant amount of template recoding, mainly to increase efficiency and elegance of loops and queries. In addition, posting articles and handling images became significantly both easier and faster. Various plug-ins became unnecessary as it became clear that relatively simple lines of code could accomplish the same task. While a few features remain to be added to this version of this site, there are many more neat things to learn.

And then of course it got busy. Consequently the site is wearing a very minimal development look. Even worse file corruptions which were not present in the test version, are causing various issues in various versions of Internet Explorer remain to be sorted. There are several lessons to be learned from this situation, but that’s for another time…

Services & skills

  • Visual design
  • Front-end coding using XHTML/HTML5 and CSS2/3
  • CSS  framework development
  • JavaScript interactivity via jQuery
  • Usability, information architecure and interface design
  • Email design and coding
  • Wordpress theme design and development
  • Flash banner design

I am currently available for work. Please use the contact form to get in touch.