Samuel Richardson Web Development

All work conducted while freelancing for the business Igloo

MyFun has been one of my favourite projects. I was initially brought on as a front end developer however the role grew as I got further into the project. MyFun is a global brand that encompasses many theme parks and attractions. Primarily Sea World, Movie World, Wet'n'Wild, Paradise Country and Australia Outback Spectacular.

I now occupy a dual account management and project management role with MyFun. I handle on going changes to the site by organising the team at Igloo and preparing quotes when new functionality is required. I act as a technical consultant, occupying the position between Igloo and the development team to ensure everyone is on the same page.

I wrote and managed all the HTML/CSS for MyFun. The parks shared similar HTML and required a method of skinning them using CSS only. This lead me to develop a skinning system that relied on some style sheets used for position and others for loading background images and colours, a system that I've since used on other sites.

http://www.myfun.com.au

http://seaworld.myfun.com.au

http://movieworld.myfun.com.au

All work conducted while freelancing for the business Igloo

Village Cinemas required a very similar skill set to what I used on the MyFun project. Again I acted in a technical consultation role, sitting in meetings between Village Cinemas and their chosen development company to gather technical requirements needed for Igloo to produce their part of the project.

I occupy a similar account and project management role for Village Cinemas as I do for MyFun, although the work is not as demanding.

I wrote all HTML/CSS for Village Cinemas and supplied it to the development company for integration with the Village Cinemas CMS.

http://www.villagecinemas.com.au

The Melpedia is entirely my own work, from concept to development, to design, to backend development. It's one of my proudest projects and my go at making dot com millions.

The Melpedia in a nutshell is an open directory, like an open version of the yellow pages. Built because the yellow pages is created using public tax dollars, however to use the information out of the yellow pages you must pay a huge yearly fee, putting that information out of the reach of smaller developers.

It's still early days but I envision taking the Melpedia worldwide, building city wikis for many more cities. As well as the Melpedia I run several other wikis, some with a reach of 1000+ unique visitors a day.

http://www.melpedia.com.au

I worked under contract for a year at Intrepid Travels web marketing department. I was responsible for taking templates that Tribal DDB had designed and cutting them into HTML/CSS. In addition to cutting the templates that Tribal designed I needed to expand the templates and design additional pages, including the shopping cart system.

http://www.intrepidtravel.com.au

All work conducted while freelancing for the business Square Circle Triangle

The Mirvac sites for Square Circle Triangle have consisted of about 7 or 8 designs cut up from template supplied by the designers. I've included Mirvac as a portfolio item because it demonstrates my love of doing straight HTML development every now and again. Each template is valid and pixel perfect to the design over every mainstream browser while retaining semantic code that is suitable for the developers to take and integrate into the CMS.

While I couldn't work solely as a front end developer any more, I love to immerse myself completely in it now and again.

Mirvac Retail

Mirvac Hotels

Mirvac Group

Mirvac Chelsea Gardens

Last time I tried to count all the sites that I've built or worked on (about 2 years ago), I was up to around 200. These included wine makers, major travel sites, real estate agents, the New Zealand army, reserve banks and more. I've listed a few of my favourites below:

Igloo

Igloo Blog

AOT Online

Freelance Global

Lemon Baxter