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Three chords? A little like the sound of one hand clapping, except plus two more. Or perhaps it’s three ideas, three methods of approaching a problem, and three solutions. Or maybe it’s just the first name I thought of when registering my domain. Get off my back!

Web design portfolio

Welcome to the web portion of my portfolio! Below are some samples of my most recent work - click on a thumbnail to see more information, a larger picture, and a link to the live site.

COMING SOON! My graphic/print design portfolio.

First Crystal

This was an ecommerce site for a local jeweller wishing to make a foray into the world of online selling. The site features a feature-laden CMS backend, coded from scratch by yours truly. As well as allowing staff to add new products and categories, they can also drag-and-drop to reorder the menu sequence in a nice AJAX way.

PayPal integration posed the challenge of encrypting payment buttons on the fly, but with some clever caching this was automated so the site administrators need never get their hands dirty with PayPal's less-than-straightforward documentation.

I used jQuery to provide a feature typical CSS can't quite achieve - equal height containers. Each box containing a product is size matched for a consistent, grid-based design.

View the site: www.firstcrystal.co.uk