Website design and development
Kent Students’ Union
May 2019 - Present
The primary website for Kent Students’ Union serves as the central digital platform for the organisation, supporting a wide range of services including student advice, representation, activities, governance, and campaigns.
The site supports the whole student population at the University of Kent, and over 15,000 members of KSU, containing over 150 pages and incorporates numerous interactive systems that support student engagement throughout the academic year. I have been responsible for the design, development, and long-term evolution of the platform since 2019, gradually transforming the site from a legacy structure into a more streamlined and maintainable system.
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Summer Ball
March 2026 - Present
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Lead Kent
November 2025 - Present
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Women’s History Month
March 2024 - Present
This webpage is updated and improved for March each year.
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LGBTQIA+ History Month
February 2024 - Present
This webpage is updated and improved for February each year.
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Disability History Month
November 2023 - Present
This webpage is updated and improved for November/December each year.
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Black History Month
October 2023 - Present
Liberation months at Kent Students’ Union are very important, and aim to celebrate marginalised individuals, groups and cultures that are vital threads in the tapestry of our university community. The webpages themselves have also lend themselves to allowing me substantial creative freedoms to design and develop impactful, celebratory hubs.
After several successful micro-site deliveries over the past year, I felt it was right that these pages also had their own identity within the Kent Students’ Union network of websites that I have created. From a technical standpoint too, these micro-sites don’t carry the baggage of the primary site, so can be both very light and very customised.
Beginning with an impactful GSAP3 hero artwork, entirely animated with a single line of JavaScript (and one to speed it up by a minute...), which also served as the plasma-screen animation on campus screens, and finishing with a complex combination of an intersection observer, card-columns and filters. The page has received wide positive responses, for both design and content. It really has set the bar high for this year’s next pages.
This webpage is updated and improved for October each year.
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SU Network
June 2023 - Present
A rebrand of SU Network took place during Term 3, culminating in a new website being developed and fully deployed in September 2023.
The new brand assets, such as radial gradient meshes, were an interesting challenge - especially once responsiveness is taken into account. A one-page design, the Waypoints JavaScript library was useful for allowing clean quicklinks down the page and updating the URL. A custom intersection observer was also subtly implemented for on-scroll fade-in effects.
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Summer Ball
March 2023 - June 2024
A recurring project, this short-term, event-based website has the purpose each year to create a hub for Summer Ball information in it’s own, branded space.
Having made micro-sites in the past, the last couple of years a single-page design has been used to keep all the information in one place, with the navigation quicklinking down the page. In a clear blue and pink colour scheme with CSS animated SVG strokes in between sections, the branding was very much in the details too with accents placed above jiggly letters.
One of my favourite features to develop was a new JavaScript gallery; by taking the images from DOM into an array, shuffling them and then showing 12 at a time, with a ‘show more’ button underneath, it keeps the page length shorter initially whilst having the content accessible for those who wish to view it. The shuffling also helps keep the page feeling fresh for re-visitors. After creating the gallery I have used it in many other projects too.
This website was replaced due to a rebrand of Summer Ball, launched in January 2025.
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Lead Kent
November 2022 - March 2025
Completely apart from the regular, more corporate design, this year’s election campaign is one of distorting the norm, attempting to disrupt and catch attention to drive engagement.
Taking the brand concept from the graphic designer and turning it into a detailed one-page website was a fun challenge with less than a month turn-around from inception to delivery of phase one. My take on one-page, low-content designs is to leverage empty space to help tell the story too, so I created spray-can SVGs and used bold, full-screen sections of the three-colour pallet to separate sections.
Unexpectedly, but to maintain brand consistency, I also designed the collection of Word documents for the Rules and Regulations, Role Descriptions and Candidate Pack. Seeing a brand come to life in a small amount of time is very satisfying and I enjoyed exploring possibilities throughout the election process, including the candidates layout, nominating and voting pages, plasma screen countdowns, email templates, live voting statistics and the results PowerPoint presentation.
This website was replaced due to a rebrand of Lead Kent, launched in December 2025.
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KU Wiki
October 2022 - Present
A proof of concept for Shelf Wiki, this subdomain houses all of the assorted user guides and frequently asked questions that were scattered around various locations and drives. Imagined as a bookshelf, the guides are nested within Books, Chapters and Pages.
Behind a login wall, this PHP CRUD app utilises Markdown to maintain styling consistency throughout, regardless of which user adds content. Eventually, the aim is to link the authentication with our Google Workspace SSO to further reduce barriers to access for staff.
At the core, the user facing side of KU Wiki is a single PHP page, with recursive URL segment checking to deliver the correct page. A nested accordion menu acts as the user navigation throughout these layers seemlessly, and the menu is open for whichever page is currently active. Depending on permissions, the user can view an administration area for the creation of Books, Chapters and Pages, with quick links in each area throughout to creation or editing.
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KU Intranet
October 2022 - Present
A PHP CRUD app, this is a signposting website with key-up search and category based filters. An administration area behind-the-scenes is available to manage resources, categories and users.
To avoid a barrier for staff the primary area of the website is "publicly" accessible, as all resources linked away require their own authentication anyway; it is purely designed to gather the widespread and sometimes siloed resources that are available to staff in one place. Administrators can log in and manage the resources from a custom back-end.
I also developed a Notes system, to display schedulable alerts at the top of the page. This system required an interesting implementation of a FontAwesome icon chooser and quite specific SQL for the scheduling, and was an interesting additional solution to create.
Behind the scenes, there are now additional areas for managing all other KU apps that I’ve been developing, all in one central location, along with administration of user accounts, permissions and more.
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KU Praise
May 2022 - Present (Launched December 2022)
A proof of concept for the P2Praise system, it has been used over 600 times by team members praising and thanking each other in the first year since launch. Some managers have used it to Praise their team, and vice versa, but predominantly it has been staff using the system to reward their colleagues for their time, energy and going beyond.
The solution has received universal commendation from peers, management and organisation leadership; and from first-hand experience of receiving the Praise email during a negative start to a day, it really can make a huge positive difference in productivity and feeling appreciated.
A completely solo project, this PHP system combines a PHPMailer multi-recipient loop with an SQL database - simultanously adding the submissions to the Praise Wall and emailing the recipients with a bespoke email each. I also designed all of the accompanying affirmations and graphics, and the branding for this system was then used across KU Intranet and KU Wiki that were developed after to create a truly cohesive environment.
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HelloKent
July 2022 - October 2024
Above and beyond the normal HelloKent offering, I developed a fully animated microsite alongside our graphic designer’s rebrand, taking several of their beautiful illustrations and bringing them to life using GreenSock’s GSAP 3 animation library.
Featuring some complex SVG management and several hundred lines of JavaScript, this single-page design utilises several GSAP techniques such as timelines and ScrollTrigger. The hero graphic is time dependent on whether the visitor sees the day or night animation and both have a desktop and mobile version for responsiveness.
Each section also uses several timelines each with their own ScrollTrigger: one for onEnter and onEnterBack navigation setting, one for each sub-section (such as information, FAQ and Instagram feeds) and embedded within each sub-section is another, smaller graphic animation timeline too!
This website was updated and improved for HelloKent 2023 and 2024, before being retired alongside the rebrand of KSU.
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Canterbury Varsity
December 2021 - Present
This short-term but recurring event-based project is a WordPress website with additional functionality provided through both plugins and several social media developer tools. The project had an initial turn-around back in late 2021 of around 6 weeks, from domain setup, Cloudflare SSL, WordPress installation, Google Analytics and holding page happening within just a couple of hours.
A collaborative effort between the Students’ Unions at the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University, this website has been the central location for updates for the week of Varsity events for now three years. With initial inspiration from the BBC News live-reporting of sporting events such as the Olympics, the design was minimal to allow the rolling content updates to take the stage, integrating a Twitter/X feed for updates and a Facebook-fed events feed for the calendar.
From a staff perspective, only being required to enter information once and using familiar tools was important to saving time during a very busy week for their Activities teams - utilising social feeds for live updates are a big part of this. For the 2024 revamp, given the instability around Twitter/X and the growing audience share and functionality of Instagram, we’ve pivoted platforms to a calendar plugin, then for 2025 I wrote a custom plugin to connect our KSU events calendar API to allow staff to use a familiar existing platform to list fixtures on all platforms at once.
This website is updated and improved for Canterbury Varsity each year, launching a Save the Date campaign each December then operating until fixtures are complete.
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Kent Clothing
February 2022 - Present
It’s not every day a Students’ Union decides to start a clothing brand, but that’s exactly what happened at Kent Students’ Union.
Previous to becoming a Co-op franchise the on-campus shops used to sell university branded hoodies etc, but as they are not Co-op products that had to stop. Instead, our graphic designer created the new Kent Clothing brand and we have used a combination of Shopify and Zettle by Paypal for the stock management, finances and website.
Shopify as an all-in-one solution felt just like an EPOS-oriented WordPress, with many similarities in the website building framework. Choosing a simple and clean template meant stamping our brand was easy and allowing the products to sell through heavy use of imagery and minimal text maintained a fresh style. The hardest work was behind the scenes, setting up products, VAT, EPOS folders and categorisation. Starting from scratch, however, means I was able to create a logical and maintainable database of products that fits the retail team’s requirements for on-going stock management.
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Oaks Nursery
March 2020 - Present
Formally a WordPress site for many years, I discovered that the website was never updated by anyone other than the Web Team, therefore there was less value using WordPress to make editing more user-friendly.
Instead, to gain the functionality of our organisational CMS, better control over SEO, and improve both design and functionality, I designed and developed a from-scratch Bootstrap 5 website. Initially, this the decision was made to integrate the website with KSU closer, however these were separated again in 2025 due to an upcoming rebrand.
Oaks Nursery has recently rebranded, and it is planned to rebuild the website soon.
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SU Network
February 2018 - July 2023
Designed and developed previous to my employment in 2019, I adopted the management of SU Network and until the end of 2021 this usually only meant minor text and file changes.
In Spring 2022, I carried out both an accessibility and SEO audit of the Kent Students’ Union website before rolling out changes across our other websites too. For SU Network this involved developing functionality for individual page titles, meta descriptions and meta images to improve the SEO.
Unfortunately, due to a compromised shared hosting package with our third-party provider on the last day before winter break, I had to rebuild the website on a new platform from the ground up in early 2023.
Due to a rebrand of SU Network, I created a new website which replaced this one in July 2023.
Makaton to Music
July 2021 - Present
A not-for-profit solo project, Makaton to Music aims to let their students have some fun and learn some Makaton signs through popular songs. Daily users are likely to be from a Special Educational Needs or Disability (SEND) background, so accessibility and tablet-friendly design was paramount. In person, these students are also familiar with a choosing board so the layout is reflective.
The first PHP CRUD app I have developed, this website initially began as a single-page manually updated card-grid. Once the common requirements settled, I moved the client from a Google Sheet to a MySQL database accessed through a custom Content Management System on the back of the website. As the collection is continually growing, the client can now add, update, hide and remove cards themselves from here as well as managing tags, coming soon and release dates.
Makaton to Music is also a brand I developed from scratch to the clients requirements, from colour scheme and font choice, to logo and video ident. To assist the client off-website, I additionally created a YouTube video-thumbnail maker that takes two inputs (song title/artist) and appends this to a HTML5 canvas element, with a choice of branded backgrounds via a toggle.
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Advent
October 2022 - December 2022, December 2024
In addition to the existing system, I created functionality for separating a selection of new releases onto their own Advent page. The client could display the release date and an advent calendar "door" image until ready, when, at the click of a button, it would reveal the song and video link.
With a well-known target audience, a bit of whimsy was added with a tiny line of JavaScript to randomly shuffle the calendar on page each load - making it like a physical chocolate calendar where you need to search for the day’s door. Additionally, the existing description field was leveraged for festive questions for the students to answer in class each day.
After the festive period, the client only needed to toggle a single field for each song to release them into the normal, year-round collection - leaving the system in place to be used fresh for the following year.
Harwich RDF Tower
June 2021 - Present
A WordPress website, the client is a curator of a new museum in Harwich, Essex.
Studio 86
September 2017 - April 2024
A dance studio in Derby, the client required a website to display their classes, timetable and take uniform orders.
Greenwich and Kent Students’ Union (GKSU)
August 2020 - July 2021
The University of Kent and University of Greenwich, along with Canterbury Christ Church University, all share a Medway university campus in Chatham, Kent. Several years ago, the Students’ Unions for Kent and Greenwich joined together to offer centralised services on the Medway campus for students of either university and it was operated primarily by Kent Students’ Union.
In early 2020 it was decided that GK Unions, as it was then, was going to re-brand itself and their system migrating from the Membership Solutions Limited (MSL) system to Students’ Union Management System (SUMS) - the same system that Kent Students’ Union uses. In order to do all of this, a whole new website needed to be created from scratch.
Coalhouse Fort Project
August 2010 - January 2020
Venkat Health Centre and Tulasi Medical Centre (NHS)
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