kieranbarnes Independent PHP, WordPress & CubeCart Programmer

Work

As a programmer it is very difficult to present an accurate portfolio of work to non-programmers.

Please do not judge my portfolio of sites based on their aesthetics or design, I did not design the majority of these sites, I just did the programming.

Want more? You can find me hanging out on cubecart.com, cubecartforums.org, freelancers.net, Smashing Jobs, freelancer.co.uk, the Shopp forums, Elance, WP Jobs and many other places.

Clients include Manchester University, Salford City Council, Toyota & Lexus GB, Oxfam, BT, Hill Hire plc, Lloyds TSB Group.

Tipping Point (Arts Council)

Posted on February 16, 2012

Posted by kieran

Date: February 2012 - Current http://www.tippingpoint.org.uk/Team: Developer (Myself), Project manager

  • Full theme WordPress theme build
  • Custom WordPress events management system
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Four4 (River Film Communication)

Posted on February 16, 2012

Posted by kieran

RiverFC 4Four
Date: December 2011 & February 2012
http://riverfc.com/four4/
Team: Developer (Myself), Designer

  • Website development
  • Custom “vote via Twitter” script.
  • Uses the Twitter Firehose streaming API to aggregate votes for each entry
  • Results dashboard to manage winners

Neil Anthony Kitchens

Posted on January 26, 2012

Posted by kieran

Neil Anthony approached me in May of 2010, their brief was simple, create a site that reflected the class and high quality kitchens they designed and installed, make the site clear, crisp, informative, easy to navigate and most importnatly easy to update by the client. Iachieved all of these goals and the staff at NA who weren't particulalry PC literate regularly updat etheir site to reflect new product and special offers.

New Client: The Spa @ Dolphin Square – Moroccan Inspired Luxury Spa In London Pimlico

Posted on January 21, 2012

Posted by kieran

My first MODX site in quite a while. The Spa @ Dolphin Square - Moroccan Inspired Luxury Spa In London Pimlico

 

Working from PSDs I was tasked with turning them into a fully working MODX Revolution CMS. Fully template driven and with everything configurable from MODX to make one highly configurable and visually stunning site.

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New Site: GamerNode – WordPress Site Migration

Posted on December 21, 2011

Posted by kieran

I recently had the pleasure of working with a well respected gaming news site - GamerNode.

My challenge was to convert their existing outdated, custom coded CMS (and database) into WordPress.

I did this with a selection of custom scripts and image downloaders to help smoothly migrate from old to new.

Contact me for more information on WordPress Site Migrations.

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New Site: HSS Blog

Posted on December 20, 2011

Posted by kieran

I was recently commissioned to code a new WordPress blog for the national hire company HSS Hire. Their new blog features excellent articles from DIY, gardening and hiring professionals for the job. See http://blog.hss.com/ for the new site.

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New Site: Lizzie Lane – Hand Selected Beautiful Jewellery and Gifts

Posted on December 8, 2011

Posted by kieran

Today I completed work on another customer's site: Lizzie Lane - Hand Selected Beautiful Jewellery and Gifts.

My tasks were to develop some custom templates for it's Thesis based theme, many Shopp modifications including fixing an XSS issue in Shopp, making Shopp work with SSL (something it does not do out of the box), some CSS work and various other Shopp modifications.

 

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Money Website of the Week

Posted on October 20, 2011

Posted by kieran

The Sunday Mirror voted my customer's site - CompareMoreDeals to be their Money website of the week this Sunday. Propa bo.

T site which searches and compares thousands of offers from daily deal websites such as Groupon, Crowdit, Wahanda and Likebees.

It’s aims is to save time by doing the comparisons for you.

You can search by category, such as restaurants or fitness, or by location.

Cities covered include Aberdeen, Bristol, London, Cardiff, Manchester and Liverpool.

See the Mirror article here.

Filed under: Client Sites, General

New Site: Salford City Stadium

Posted on September 21, 2011

Posted by kieran

A fantastic show case site for the new Salford City Stadium for Salford City Council. Developed in WordPress I was involved in the Events Management and booking system. Set to be used by thousands of people when the stadium opens. One of the first Government based sites to use WordPress!

    

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New Site: Majestik Art

Posted on May 21, 2011

Posted by kieran

Majestik Art approached me wanting a central hub for their numerous profiles on different social networking sites across the web.

 

I provided a content management e-commerce system in CubeCart 5 so products can be sold and payments taken online, included a rotating image carousel displaying different pieces of work and also plenty of information about Majestik Art, Animal Art, Pet Portraits and Artwork by Vicky Mycock.

 

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