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  • Informatics Ventures

    informatics-ventures

    Client: Edinburgh University

    Website: Informatics Ventures

    Launch Date: April 2010

    Based in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, Informatics Ventures supports and encourages globally ambitious software companies in Scotland. The programme was established in 2008 with the aim of nurturing a profitable Scottish technology cluster to rival Boston, Pittsburg, Kyoto and Silicon Valley.

    The backend development was done by Duncan (in-house developer) and the design was created by 39Steps. My involvement was to work with their in-house developer to adapt the theme to Drupal.


  • Wider Achievement

    Wider Achievement

    Client: EdICT

    Website: Wider Achievement

    Launch Date: March 2010

    Wider achievement is a branch site of EdICT's online learning tool to assess and report on school kids performances from the questionnaires they have studied from EdICT's online learning tool. It was to provide teachers with quality reporting and assessment tools.

    I was commissioned to create a design that will appeal to school kids and made it fun for them to view their overall scoring. This design was then converted into a Drupal custom theme.



  • EdICT Training Ltd

    EdICT

    Client: EdICT

    Website: EdICT

    Launch Date: Feb 2010

    EdICT is an independent ICT company serving public service and commercial clients in the UK and based in Scotland. Edict provides professional and technical solutions to maximise effective use of ICT. They do this through advice and consultancy, training and CPD, equipment supply and installation, support and maintenance.

    I was contacted to redesign their corporate site doing the complete site build (design and devleopment) from redesigning through to full website implementation.



  • EdICT

    Client: EdICT Training Ltd

    Website: CPD in ICT - Derbyshire

    Launch Date: Oct 2009

    CPD in ICT is EdICT's online distance learning system which has been successfully launched 8 years ago and is now deployed in many councils withn the UK for school teachers. This is one of the many system deployed for Derbyshire council.

    This web based system was in need of a new design to make it more appealing and to modernise the existing site. It was built using Drupal and heavily utilises webform module to built out many custom questionaire multi-forms mostly developed by John Bell and the front and backend theming was coded myself as well as the design concept and graphics.



  • Reigart

    Reigart

    Client: John Gilbert

    Website: Reigart

    Launch Date: Apr 2009

    Reigart Contracts Ltd was founded in 1988 as a specialist demolition contractor. We were elected members of the National Federation of Demolition Contractors in 1993 and obtained ISO Quality Assurance accreditation in 1995.

    The design was created by Duich McKay from John Gilbert Architects. I was brought in to help the site development using Drupal 6



  • Stills Gallery

    Stills

    Website: Stills

    Launch Date: Mar 2009

    Stills is a vibrant platform for creativity. Our integrated programmes illuminate the fascinating medium of photography, exploring everything from its technical and aesthetic developments through to the central role it plays in contemporary culture.

    Working alongside Inigo Media, we migrated the site over to Drupal CMS



  • Mustapha's Place

    Mustapha's Place

    Client: R Hamada

    Website: Mustapha's Place

    Launch Date: Nov 2008

    A friendly, original and unpretentious guesthouse set in stunning gardens, just minutes from one of the most gorgeous beaches in the world in Zanzibar, East Africa

    I came up with the initial design. Themed and developed it using Drupal CMS



  • Informedwomen

    Informedwomen

    Client: Design Links

    Website: Informed Women

    Launch Date: Aug 2008

    Informed Women are an online supportive network, with personal and business information, opinions and stories that enable women to inspire, build confidence, make connections and be inspired.

    The site was designed by Design Links and was built using Drupal CMS. I helped on building the design into a Drupal theme and site development.



  • Chantal Awbi - Graphic Designer

    Chantal Awbi

    Client: Chantal Awbi

    Website: Chantal Awbi

    Coded: valid Strict XHTML & CSS one page design








  • Dr Stephen Turner

    Dr Stephen Turner

    Client: Dr Stephen Turner

    Website: Dr Stephen Turner

    Coded: valid Strict XHTML & CSS custom design template for A8E CMS. Includes some modules styling, setup and configurations.







  • Animal Interaction

    Animal Interaction

    Client: ConnectNC

    Website: Animal Interaction

    Coded: valid XHTML & CSS custom design template for Joomla CMS. Includes some modules styling, setup and configurations.







  • Inn at Bryant House

    Inn at Bryant House

    Client: ConnectNC

    Website: Inn at Bryant House

    Coded: valid XHTML & CSS custom design template for Joomla CMS. Includes some modules styling, setup and configurations.







  • Fore Properties

    Fore Properties

    Client: ConnectNC

    Website: Fore Properties

    Coded: valid XHTML & CSS custom design template for Joomla CMS. Includes some extension theming, modules styling, setup and configurations.







  • Iron Horse Properties

    Iron Horse Properties

    Client: ConnectNC

    Website: Iron Horse Properties

    Coded: valid XHTML & CSS custom design template for Joomla CMS. Includes some extension themeing, modules styling, setup and configurations.





  • Health Power

    Health Power

    Client: ConnectNC

    Website: Health Power

    Coded: valid XHTML & CSS custom design template for Joomla CMS. Includes some extension themeing, modules styling, setup and configurations.







  • Sandhills Kids

    Sandhills Kids

    Client: ConnectNC

    Website: Sandhills Kids

    Coded: valid XHTML & CSS custom design template for Joomla CMS. Includes some extension themeing, modules styling, setup and configurations.







  • A8E

    A8E

    Website: A8E

    A8E is fork version of an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) called Joomla!. A8E CMS conforms to web accessibility guidelines and web standards (e.g. W3C) in better ways than Joomla! 1.0.x version.

    An Open Source project i took over as the project lead in March 2007. At that time, Joomla 1.0.x still rendered HTML tables and i was in need of a system that conforms to modern web standards using CSS for presentation and xHTML for document structure. During the time i was project lead, i helped packaged releases and some bug fixes. User support was provided using the A8E website's forum. The website was initially built by myself. It had a team blog, download section, site showcase and a support forum. As of Feb 2008, i no longer maintain A8E and handed it over to another web developer named Kevin Murray to continue the development.

  • Books Abroad

    Books Abroad

    Client: Steve Read (Chairman)

    Website: Books Abroad

    Books Abroad is a charity that helps educate children in developed countries by sending them free school textbooks.

    They wanted a site that will reflect what they do and to be able to keep site visitors and members updated. So the solution was to develop a content management system to allow them to blog and add photos. A membership section was added to allow interested individuals, volunteers or companies to join.

    UPDATED on Jun 2009 - Migrated site from Joomla to Drupal

  • Brown Boy Breakz

    Brown Boy Breakz

    Client: BBB

    Website: brownboybreakz.com

    A music website for a talented artist who has been gaining a lot of publicly and airplay on BBC Radio One Scotland and BBC Asian Network.

    I was commissioned to develop the site and code a design template. An open source content management system was used allow client to upload music and update contents easily.





  • Scottish Documentary Institute 11

    Scottish Documentary Institute

    Client: SDI

    Website: Scottish Documentary Institute

    Scottish Documentary Institute was set up in 2004 with a major grant from the Edinburgh College of Art. It aim to create a synergy between the practice and study of documentary film, to link industry and academia - in Scotland, the UK and internationally. They needed a website to provide information about public talks, screenings, project works and seminars.

    I was responsible for the template design conversion into XHTML and CSS, and tidied up some of the design layout issues as well as site structure. Setup and installed CMS to allow client to managed their own contents. A mailing list system was integrated at a later date to keep their members updated by email.





  • The Legal Education & Training Group

    The Legal Education & Training Group

    Client: LETG

    Website: The Legal Education & Training Group

    The Legal Education & Training Group is an association of legal training and development professionals, with some 180 members, representing law firms large and small, City and regional, throughout the UK. They needed a website to provide networking opportunities, knowledge sharing, support & training to their members.

    I was responsible for template conversion, site structure and tidied up some of the design layout issues as well as some bugfixing. A content management system was used to allow client to managed their news, users and update events. An extended user group access control was also implemented to allow for setting up various different membership and subscribers groups.





  • Ezone Interactive

    Ezone Interactive

    Client: EI

    Website: Ezone Interactive

    Created four coloured design templates for Ezone Interactive in-house custom CMS system.








  • Trouble club night

    Trouble

    Client: Trouble

    Website: Trouble

    A successful and popular monthly club night in Edinburgh, scotland that has been going for the past few years, and have been shortlisted on Gilles Peterson Worldwide Award for 'Best club night of the year' in 2005. They needed a website to promote their club nights, news, events, tours, and to provide DJ mixes to their dedicated clubbers.

    I created the concept design and coded the layout and created the images. A simple content management system was developed to allow client to manage the different parts of the site and the ability to upload their DJ mixes. A mailing list system and forum was integrated into the site as well.





  • Shopfar

    Shopfar

    Client: Karma Collective Limited

    Website: Shopfar

    A successful UK shopping portal where users can shop and earn free iTunes. They have now expanded to cover many other European and the US market.

    I worked on a contract basis as a server administrator to cover and provide server admin support, and managed their dedicated server. Carried out some quality testing on the website.





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What clients say about Duvien

  • ConnectNC

    "Du Vien is a valuable business partner to ConnectNC. He transformed our custom graphic designs into functional content management systems. The added styles, usability recommendations, and functionality provided allowed us to focus energy on customer relations and project management.

    We find it a pleasure to work with him to complement our technical team. Du Vien is sure to thoroughly complete the project beyond expectations and was a pleasure to work and communicate with. "
    Monica Zimmerman, ConnectNC, Inc.

  • Books Abroad

    "When you were first approached, Books Abroad was still lurking firmly in the 20th Century and we needed to join the 21st Century. You advised and created a website for us which has promoted the work of charity with clarity.

    Whenever any changes need to be made you react with amazing speed and with enthusiasm, understanding what we need each time. When it came to our request for help with the eBay auction, again you were there, guiding us through the process with great success."
    - Claire Newman, Development Officer, Books Abroad

  • Trouble

    "Du Vien carried extensive research, developed a deep understanding of our market and proposed a number of layouts that would enable our users to access the information we wanted to present.

    He worked our chosen design whilst closely communicating with us during its development, taking on board our suggestions and changing direction when necessary to create a site that was perfect for our needs at that time."
    - Eric Roberts, DJ & Club Promoter, Trouble

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