An eCommerce site reboot before the Christmas period for a Shetland based electrical appliance servicing company specialising in the refurbishment of damaged appliances.
The Appliance Rescue site has seen a complete redesign inclusive of an online catalogue and eCommerce shopping cart facility. Specifically targeted at Shetlanders, anyone with a computer can now view and select from a range of household white goods. Payment may be made through the PayPal IPN Network with customers returned to the site after transaction.

The site utilises XHTML Transitional markup with CSS for styling and is dynamically generated using PHP Smarty templating. Administrated entirely from an intuitive back-end, the client has access to change / update their products as well as all web pages.

Overall the site has been optimised for search engines with SEO friendly URLs and adheres to the DDA: Disibility Discrimination Act 2004; viewable in a variety of browsers.

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4th March 2005
Remit was a complete site redesign also to incorporate a new business logo (designed by yadUK). The logo design followed clean lines and a modern feel, to associate with electrical appliances.
This site has now been totally redone complying with XHTML 4.01 Strict and CSS industry standards.
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XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, Linux
Logo Design
Hosted by yadUKHosting
http://www.appliancerescue.co.uk

ZetCast is an online broadcasting network serving the Shetland Islands and beyond.

Our mission: to provide a valuable resource to the Shetland community whilst promoting Shetland culture, music and arts throughout the world. Administered by a not-for-profit collective, ZetCast delivers “citizen driven media” – made by the community, for the community.
ZetCast uses podcast technology to deliver broadcasts. Podcasting has many advantages over traditional radio broadcasting….

You can use any device that plays mp3s, such as your PC, laptop or mp3 player to listen to podcasts. It’s not just iPods!
You don’t have to tune in at a specific time. You listen whenever it suits you
You can ’subscribe’ to shows so new episodes are delivered to you automatically. There’s no hunting on the Internet to find the shows you want, they come to you!
Designed around an intuitive interface for both the user front-end as well as the producer back-end ZetCast offers a myriad of accessible ways in which to listen to and enjoy the sounds of Shetland.

XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, RSS, XSL
Hosted by yadUKHosting
goto site http://www.zetcast.com

Reboot 2006
Welcome to the yadUK site reboot. The site is fully web standards compliant in both xhtml markup and css styling. Hope you enjoy it and feedback is most welcome.

Since moving on from Systems Analyst at HBOS: Vehicle Finance to pursue web development / hosting projects I recently ‘rebooted’ the yadUKHosting site too so as to reflect the new chapter in my life!

XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL
Hosted by yadUKHosting
http://www.yaduk.co.uk
original: 2002 reboot: 2004, 2005, 2006

After 2 years it was time to “reboot” the yadUKHosting website! Though the servers have been upgraded twice since yadUKHosting.co.uk came online on 5th April 2004 the site sadly had taken a back seat.
yadUKHosting initially started out hosting sites from the yadUK.co.uk domain name – and as more and more people became interested in “cost effective” hosting solutions I decided it was time to move into ownership of my own hardware!

So began yadUKHosting, which has grown and become a popular hosting company across the UK for SME companies as well as individuals.

Please do take a look at yadUKHosting as it is: ” [...] able to provide you the customer with simple hosting solutions that include all the bells and whistles provided by the large Internet players: the big name IPPs (Internet Presence Providers), but at cost effective prices.”

XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL
Hosted by yadUKHosting
goto site http://www.yadukhosting.co.uk
original: 2004 reboot: 2006

“Michael Inkster & Co. was established in March 1995, operating initially from modest offices just outside Lerwicks town centre. Since then the firm’s client base has grown year after year and now occupies modern and spacious office accommodation in the heart of Lerwicks main street – Commercial Street – conveniently close to …”
Site built with Perl/CGI backend serving pages from MySQL datastore. Perl templating has allowed a light easily manageable site.

Client can upload own properties through intuitive custom “Content Management System” inclusive of image resizing functionality by using Perls GD libraries.

XHTML, CSS, Perl, PHP, MySQL
Hosted by yadUKHosting
goto site http://www.shetlandislesproperty.co.uk

The Intranet site was upgraded to adhere to XHTML Strict markup and to use CSS purely for its styling. Upgrade was inclusive of several self-built dynamic web-based applications.
Employed by HBOS: Vehicle Finance as Systems Analyst,  I took over the role of Lead Intranet Developer: inclusive of server management, and moved towards upgrading their flat HTML based Intranet site into a dynamic ASP: VBScript based portal to pull in the three distinct geographical areas making up Vehicle Finance: Edinburgh, Chester, Bushey.

Due to server restrictions, and cross domain users, I was unable to use a standard database format such as MS Access or MS SQL for a backend. Instead I opted for my own built flatfile XML based relational database.

As part of the upgrade an XML/JavaScript/ASP, based dynamic phonebook was produced to aide communication between the three geographical sites. A standalone MS Access “phonebook repository” exports XML for the Intranet when an entry is added/updated. This database extended to be the central Vehicle Finance Human Resources Repository, and again upgraded to also incorporate all Financial Services Authority details.

Other own built web applications to streamline business processes included a News CMS, and a Systems self-help tool (SOS) as well as an Online Systems Status tool.

Further projects integrated into the Intranet included business areas KPI (Key Performance Indicators) being updated direct to the Intranet from each core system / department through the use of Business Objects reporting software and MS Acess databases to export pertinant data into XML schema to be fed into Macromedia Flash graphic reporting .swf files.

XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML, ASP:VBScript, Flash, BusinessObjects, MS Windows IIS
Intranet Logo Design

Currently, over 500 people a year must travel from Shetland to Aberdeen for CAT scans. This website was designed as a base point for the appeal to raise £1 million GBP to provide Shetland’s NHS with a local CAT Scanner.

The appeal aims to provide equipment, building, training and running costs as well as providing a locally run CAT scanner as part of NHS Shetland’s forward plan. Funding the project now, instead of in a few years when it would be affordable to the NHS meant money being diverted from other vital health services. The operational costs of the scanner is to be transferred to the Health Board after 2 years.

The website is updatable by the individuals involved easily from a PHP / MySQL based Content Management System.

XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL
Hosted by yadUKHosting

Thinking that there was a hold up at the back of the site I decided to trip around the WayBackMachine and dig up some of the original ‘turn of my hand’ development from way back yesteryear.

Here is an incarnation of the yadUK site from 2004:

Visit the WayBackMachine

NOTE: images are no longer hosted hence the ommision of elements of the website from the WayBackMachine

The Camera Centre, a locally owned business in Shetland. Originally a static information based site – the interest in cameras, camcorders etc. spurned a need for a fully updateable e-commerce site.
The sites shopping cart software allows for users to log in after setting up an account and cache products into their virtual shopping cart. When ready the user can then proceed to the checkout facility.

Users can also view latest and best buy products – calculated from the MySQL backend and displayed for ease of viewing.

e-commerce, HTML, Javascript,
CSS, PHP, MySQL, Flash, Linux
Hosted by yadUKHosting
goto site http://www.thecameracentre.net