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Work Experience - Web site development

 

I first started designing web sites in early 1994, in the days before coloured backgrounds and when many people were still using text browsers to access the world wide web (e.g., the Lynx browser)!

None of the web sites I developed back then still exist today. I hope this is indicative of the speed of change of all things internet, rather than any deficiencies in my design skills! So what you see below is a list of the sites that I have developed (professionally - I've left out one or two that I've set up for friends, etc) since 1997. If I provide the link, it means either that I still have control over the site or that the design is still recognisably mine (nb. only TPM Online, Butterflies and Wheels and THINK are truly my designs - the other designs all reflect the desires of the client).

Of these, the three most significant (as an indication of my design and programming skills, and my ability to produce a popular and successful web site) are The Philosophers' Magazine Online, Butterflies and Wheels and THINK. Here's some information about the TPM Online:

  • Some 50,000 unique visitors a week
  • High media profile (e.g., it has been featured or led to features in BBC Television, BBC Radio [the Today programme], The Guardian (on three or four different occasions, see, for example, here), The Daily Telegraph, Smart Computing, Sunday Express, Lingua Franca, The Chronicle of Higher Education, etc.)
  • A series of interactive activities, one of which, The Philosophical Health Check has been accessed some 100,000 times in the last year; and another one, Battleground God, has been played nearly 250,000 times in the last year
  • A five figure revenue generated yearly
  • Some 600 articles available in the TPM archive

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