Edward Jung Portfolio Multimedia design & development

Working for the housing and homelessness charity Shelter as the Web Coder within the busy Creative and Production team. General maintenance of the main Shelter website using a bespoke content management system (CMS). Design and implementing new sections and templates for the CMS. Redeveloping existing template pages and stylesheets to ensure good accessibility and usability in the site. The role also involves the maintaining Shelter related websites and microsites e.g. Roof Magazine, Shelter Legal and the Homelessness Act sites.

I work on projects for all parts of the organisation within Shelter — from campaigns and fundraising to policy, legal and training — to create effective web material to support their work. I am involved with all streams of electronic communications such as email mailouts, online advertising, electronic touch screens and screen savers. I work closely with copywriters, subeditors and the IT development team.

In my role have also helped to developed processes, set up web style guidelines and provide training to third parties on campaign work and advising on equipment/hosting requirements. I am a member of the web working group and a team working on diversity in the organisation.

+ Shelter Website

A volunteer project that I took on as part of the IT4Communities scheme at the start of 2004. The National Phobics Society is the largest charity dealing with anxiety and phobias. They wanted a redesign of their existing site to reflect their new image. I worked with them to design and implemented a new site that reflected the growing importance of the internet to the charity.

The new site has been made to be as fully accessible as possible making full use of accessiblity aids such as accesskeys and includes the implementation of the BBC Betsie text parser.

Features also developed include:

• A bulletin board and chatroom that was sourced and implemented
• A custom administration system was written to handle media/research/e-contact/shop orders
• Better handling of feedback and email support through the use of online forms
• Improved site architecture and visibility of the core information areas
• Integration of the WorldPay payment gateway for online shop and membership payments

Following the new site launch, traffic has increased four fold, online donations, membership applications and shop purchases have increased significantly. I continued to provide general site maintenance, support and advice to the NPS as a volunteer until the end of 2006.

+ National Phobics Society

For the Faculty of Applied Sciences I worked on the redevelopment of all the current sites in order to make them comply with current accessibility guidelines. Working closely with the five departments and centre I created CSS based designs and implementated the sites to XHTML standards in order to future proof them. Most sites are templated, some database driven and are usability tested.

I also provided advice for online faculty marketing and some general university Web strategies.

Educational institutions have different needs to commercial organisations in their focus and market making this role more of a challenge.

+ Lancaster University Faculty of Applied Sciences

An online casino written for Stanley Leisure aimed at the high end of the online gambling market. The casino is a downloadable program written entire in Java with the sophistication of the real Crockfords. Six games are provided including Blackjack, Roulette and Stud Poker with play for fun and play for real options. I wrote a finance server that handles all payment processing via multiple payment gateways and implemented the website. Also wrote the administration system making use of XML, XSL and XSLT, enabling realtime configuration and monitoring of the casino. The casino was launched Spring 2003.

An end to end ecommerce solution was designed to sell the Sony Playstation consoles and games online in the UK. The solution was based around Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 solution. I implemented the core back end of the site providing custom functionality like suggested products, special deals and a streamlined registration process. Fulfilment was provided by Zendor and a call centre application was developed for phone orders. The site was built under a tight deadline working closely with the client.

+ Sony UK Playstation online shop

An online store and pets portal site was created for Pets At Home. The ecommerce shop was built using the ecommerce package Intershop 4. This was customised with Perl scripting for cross-selling and random hot deals functionality and linking to a payment gateway. The main website was written using Server Side Javascript and like the store powered by a Sybase database. A content management system based around templates enables the content to be managed easily.

A job portal created for Hays Personnel Services. The site consists of an extensive job database, job seeking advice, a protected employers section, specialist job magazines and even a virtual interview using streaming technology. The site was written using Java and JSP technology connecting to a Oracle database. The design makes use of corporate Hays colours and Flash navigation. A web based file management system allows new pages to be created.

A multi-phase development written in ASP, with content managed through a third party system. Relaunched at the end of 2001, the site has had a face lift with a modern look an feel whilst retaining the depth of original content. Some features were updated such as the quiz and live commentary streams are now available.

A conceptual game developed internally based on a football quiz. The aim was to answer multiple choice questions on football trivia to score goals and win prizes. The game was orginally written in ASP for PC based browsers. Due to the the many restrictions of the interactive TV platforms I reprogrammed it to work around the issues. The screens were redesigned for a much lower resolution and the controls were simplified.

The Restaurant Game portal for people in the restaurant industry wanted to expand it's site with an online shop selling high quality restaurant utensils. Having worked on the main site integrating the subscription system with an online credit card payment gateway, I was placed in a team to build shop. The designs fit have a contemporary feel and made extensive use of dynamic HTML to provide navigational effects. Unfortunately the shop was discarded part way through implementation due to financial reasons.

Burnley Football Club approached Eunite for a low cost re-design and implementation of their website. Under a strict deadline a full website was created along with a simple content management system and small online merchandise shop. An online content management system was written using Java and JSP allowing the site to be updated remotely. The site no longer exists as all Nationwide Division teams' websites are now managed by Premium TV.

A small project that involved a redesign of this Government information portal for use on interactive TV platforms. It also involved a quick implementation of a new registration and search system. Back end code was written in Perl and hosted on a Linux server. From specification to implementation the project was delivered very quickly.

A corporate website and brochureware website for Eunite and it's parent company. Both makes use of Flash for navigation and also dynamic HTML elements. I helped to integrate both websites. The NBrown website caters for the City and investors, whilst the Eunite site provides details of it's services and client roster.

The official site for the Lomographic Embassy of Manchester. The site promotes a worldwide photographic collective in the North-West community. With a weblog, gallery, information on the camera and links to resources, the site is a fun resource to get you interested in photography with a slant.

The site is clean, simple to use and makes use of advanced CSS layout.

+ Lomography Manchester website

Data and Research Services provide data capturing solutions across the world including automated mark readers for census' and elections. The work involved a complete site redesign and content integration with client password protected area. I implemented the templates and the content for the site and fixing browser problems.

+ DRS website

A new music magazine for musicians with a particular focus on computer based tools. The cover CD is a dual platform disc with a HTML front end. I helped to put together layouts and organise programs for the CD.

+ MusicTech Magazine

A prototype tool developed for a company in Bath. Users can select up to companies to compare share prices over a particular period. The tool written in Flash MX makes extensive use of ActionScript to dynamically load and parse the XML data when requested. User could interact with the graph by selecting areas to pan and zoom.

A small site for a local writer and geneologist showcasing her work. A simple design, layout and contact form was developed as an inital prescence on the Web. Hosting advice was also provided.