A passionate UI developer

I've been doing this since 2006

Hi my name is Brian Cross and I'm a front end developer. I love producing semantic, usable and accessible websites. I produce my websites using a mixture of front end technologies, to enhance the user experience.

I love a challenge and learning new things, give me a project to sink my teeth into and I will deliver to the best of my ability - even if it means working in my own time. Here are some of the skills that I can offer you

HTML 5

For new and mobile friendly sites

CSS 3

For those cool effects that you used to have to use js for

CMS experience

Episerver, Sitecore, Escenic, Joomla and Wordpress

XHTML

I've got years of experience with this

CSS / CSS 2

I've had years of experience practicing this dark art

Razor templates

The modular templating system .net mvc platforms

Accessibility

WCAG, WAI

OO-Javascript

AJAX, JSON, JQuery, vanilla

php, MySql

Comfortable working in a php environment, and with open source cms

Responsive / Adaptive sites

For mobile and portable devices

Cross browser

All major browsers, including the bad ones

SASS/LESS

Make CSS more readable and quicker to write

My Work

Previous Clients

Music Sales Corporation musicroom.com

Long term contract - Brownfield - Re-platform

This brown field project was a migration of the existing site to Episerver with a mobile / hand-held device retro fit and multiple redesigns with cross territory considerations.
musicroom.com

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The Passion Project

The Passion Project is a large-scale youth engagement programme that helps 16-24 year-olds explore employment opportunities by identifying and developing their natural skills, talents and passions into a routeway that creates meaningful employment opportunities.

I came on board to apply some new layout designs to the site and "retro fit" the site to make it mobile compatible

ASOS

Long term contract, multiple projects

My time at ASOS has been extremely varied. I've worked on both desktop and mobile projects, and quite a few proof of concept ideas and javascript games. My largest project was the women's wear home pages and daily destination news pages across national and international sites (UK, US, Russia, Australia, France, Germany, Spain and Italy).

The most recent project I was involved with was called personal stylist, this was a new social page on the site with chat features to talk directly with fashion stylists.

Communicator Group - Stir Public Relations

Brand new site, built using Wordpress

Stir PR (a Communicator Group company) wanted to redesign their website to make it more current and mobile friendly, and also include a blogging facility. I worked closely with a designer to achieve this. The new site was built in WordPress as a single page site, and is fully responsive.

Communicator Group - Communicator

Gentleman Jack micro site built in tumblr

A micro site to showcase the Gentleman Jack marketing images and videos, built using tumblr. Also mobile friendly.

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