Web Design

I remember spending a lot of my Remote Sensing MScin 1993 and 1994 at Aberdeen University inside the 24 hour computer building. There was a harcdcore of about a dozen people in the PC or UNIX room playing on the machines ('spodding'). This included activities such as UNIX shell scripting, finding and printing porn, playing the original Doom, Civilisation, and Project UFO and chatting/emailing through Telnet. Then one day something new appeared (as the machines were upgraded from 486 to Pentium 60). It was NCSA Mosaic, a Web browser and HTML scripting become my next fix. This was the first version and I soon volunteered to do the pages for the science fiction society consisting only of a simple logo, unicorn graphics and text (long since vanished in the ether). I also did the posters and designs on MACs using archaic design software and nearly got elected to run it in '94.

After Aberdeen I did a computer graphics MSc at Teesside where I learned countless other stuff and returned to Web page authoring soon after at VR Systems. This lasted just 3 months (I lost the job for Web surfing, using the phone to find accommodation and having trouble with getting to the remote location). Anyway I researched and got the PC and peripherals, helped a little with the cybersphere project and designed their Web pages. A version containing 75% of what I design still exists at http://www.vr-systems.ndtilda.co.uk/index0.htm (not the index page).

I then worked at the Ordnance Survey in Southampton betweeen 1997 and 1999 and in a small team designed IntraNet pages and researched new technologies (technology tracking). These involved imagemaps and Javascript (then new features / technologies). Also, I designed pages for Thekchen Buddhist centre (where I lived most of that time). These are shortly to be uploaded onto my main site - www.candymana.co.uk/web/thekchen.htm

Later work in the last couple of years has included pages for Oldham Gallery colours workshop and exhibition (www.candymana.co.uk/web/oldham.htm) and the melting pot event last year at MANCAT (http://www.meltingpot05.co.uk/). Current work is on my main home page (www.candymana.co.uk) and solar energy devices.

In the future I intend to have a 3D navigation interface and narrative online plus a site that covers our life and death situation with the environment.