Image FUpload (Multiupload) is an addition to image and CCK’s imagefield module. It allows the user who is allowed to upload images using the image module or imagefield module, to upload multiple images with one simple click. All selected images are uploaded via a flash module (swfupload) and are automatically processed

It fully integrates with the image and imagefield module (and thumbnail creation using imagecache module)

Check the module out here

I did a bit of searching and came up with the Webform module. This module allows you to create as many forms as you like and they exist as separate nodes which can be linked to.

It’s a fairly simple thing to want to achieve but necessary and often used.

I created this site in Spring 2010 for Southwark Theatres Education Partnership. It is a Drupal based content management system. I created the design by gathering research on theatres and related paper and digital media. I sketched out the design on paper before porting it into Illustrator.

The design brief was to create something with energy that would appeal to both the younger users and the parents and teachers.

It was my first venture into using Drupal. I found it quite similar to using Wordpress but more scalable. However, I found that for a small blog site Wordpress would be the preferable technology when compared with Drupal. There are many plugins similar to Wordpress available for Drupal but Wordpress appears to have the edge in this aspect.

I sliced and coded the design into CSS and XHTML and then created a custom Drupal theme. I learnt about using Views, Panels, and blocks to organise and layout content. I created a base structure with a selection of common modules which could be reused for future projects.

A nice feature is the IMCE image uploading plugin which allows for cropping and resizing images on upload.

An evening of coming up with some t-shirt designs, based on iconic existing designs. They are over at zazzle. Buy them now.

http://www.openmapscaucasus.org

I created a website for Open Maps Caucasus. They are an Open Source based mapping project in the Caucasus. I met Jeff, the organiser whilst living in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.

He wanted a clean, and tech-savvy content management system for announcing news about OMC projects. I decided that Wordpress was the tool for the job after doing some research into content management system software. For a small project Wordpress offered the flexibility required and the vast selection of plugins on offer made it relatively easy to accomplish the required functionality.

OMC have since expanded their projects across Georgia into the other major cities. They are a community of people learning about and adopting Open Source technology.

The site featured the following technology:

• Featured content slider
• Tabbed widgetized custom homepage
• Content-management-system implementation of Wordpress
• Recent posts list
• Content-management style sub-page navigation
• Twitter group integration
• Embedded javascript maps
• Localisation – Georgian, Russian and English Languages.
• Custom forms

The system that I built could be easily reused as the basis for other sites with similar requirements. The Wordpress community is very active to help with any queries with the Wordpress software itself and plugins. It’s not as scalable as Drupal and would get unwieldy on bigger projects but Wordpress served well for this project.

I started the site in November 2009 and it was completed by April 2010.

Hits are presently (03/08/10):-

Press coverage

http://www.hallamgroup.com

I created a content management system using ASP.net and Visual Basic.NET for one of the biggest construction companies in the East Midlands. I worked on a contract basis for VertoUK.

The design was provided by VertoUK in Illustrator format. I sliced up the design and coded it into CSS/XHTML and ensured cross-browser compatibility with older versions of Internet Explorer by doing necessary bug-testing with the program IE Tester.

I built a relational database and used ASP.net to retrieve and display content on the pages. I created a custom admin system for the client to be able to upload photos and enter and add content.

The system that I used required a significant learning curve to create, however, I intend to improve and build upon it for future projects.

I created this graphic art in February 2009. There are elements of Iranian decorative patterns, flowers, lighting and graffiti.

I am creating websites for an investment group in the Republic of Georgia. This site is for their Taxi division- Gig Taxi, which is the largest taxi fleet in Georgia.

It is a brochure website with static pages. I’ve been meaning recently to come up with a very basic CMS in php to package with these sorts of sites. In future I think I will build these kind of sites on wordpress, in order to give the client the ability to tweak the content themselves.

I implemented a language switcher between Georgian and English, I used this jquery plugin for the photo gallery and I used the ajax contact form here.

I used a modular approach with the CSS, with separate stylesheets for grid, typography, positioning based on Blueprint CSS and www.960.gs.

The site can be view here at http://www.gig21.ge and click on the central image to visit the Gig Taxi site.

Tom Allen and I DJed at the Mtatsminda theme park in the open air cafe, Tbilisi, Georgia on 11.10.09.  We used Ableton Live. It is part of an emerging project to bring electronic music to people in Georgia through parties organised by some lively people here.

The Tracklist:

1. Sphongle – Outer Sphongolia
2. Pendulum – Visions
3. Astral Matrix – Towards Omega
4. Underground Resistance – Stardancer
5. Caper – Hybrid
6. James Holden – Idiot
7. Radioactive Man – Night Bus to Nowhere
8. Roland Klinkenberg – Mexico Can Wait
9. Amygdala – Tweakend
10. Greynoise – Endless Winter
11. Freaky Chakra – Blacklight Fantasy
12. Dave Clarke – Dirt Box

Download the mix here

The Playlist:

1. Clone – Mile High (2009 Remix)
2. Freaky Chakra – Platform (6:55)
3. Losing Control – DBX (7:44)
4. Slam – Track from Headstates Album
5. A guy called gerald – Downstroke (2:42)
6. Basic Units – Explode (4:43)
7. James Holden – Idiot
8. Richie Hawtin – Weiter Noch
9. Imatran Voima – InOut
10. Dirty Hospital – Rottenrow
11. Astral Matrix – Towards Omega
12. Mu-Ziq – Mu-Ziq Theme
13. Hallucinogen – Demention
14. Amygdala – Tweakend
15. Greynoise – Endless winter
16. Astral Projection – Utopia
17. Cyber Motion – Nirvana
18. Radioactive Man – ‘ave That
19. Infected Mushroom – Eat it raw

Download Mix in Mp3

This is the latest design of the Georiders website I created for mountain bike guiding in the Republic of Georgia, based in the capital Tbilisi. I previously posted a draft version of the design and since then it progressed quite a lot. I added a lot more graphical and textural elements in keeping with the grungy sport style.

It is an informational and community website to develop the sport of mountain biking in Georgia.  The site has a mailing list, forum and blog with custom wordpress theme. The website already gets many hits, mostly from Georgia, Western Europe and the US. The website is successfully attracting customers interested in mountain bike guiding who have sent in enquiries via the contact form.

I intend to fix a few bugs, improve the speed by further optimising the graphics, tweak the blog theme so it’s faster and neater. Using Google Analytics to discover which content is most popular, I intend to work into those pages to enhance the user experience and better deliver what the user needs from the website.

I created this last night. It’s an abstraction of shapes inspired by bike components. I went out cycling yesterday and afterwards felt inspired to create this. I’ve been inspired by the colours of Andre Butzer’s and Beatriz Milhazes paintings. The multi-media and complexity of Julie Mehretu’s artwork builds on my previous interest in scale and resolution within the image, different levels of detail created with different media. Also the painting style of Albert Oehlen – I like the way the different quantities and quality of painting leaves the viewer to interpret as they wish and gives depth and layers – particularly ‘Selbstportrait mit 50 millienfacher Lictgeschwindigkeit’.

My image is a drawing from memory, with acrylic paint, crayon, felt tip, biro, thick and medium black markers on scrap paper.

I created these drawings and paintings during the year 2001. A selection of notable drawings and painting favourites. I am re-reading through E.H.Gombrich’s Story of Art book at the moment and at the beginning it states that it is important for an artist to be able to draw. I wanted to display some of my drawings here on my portfolio. Some are artist studies. Various medias are used- pencil, pastel, acrylic paint, charcoal, ripped magazines, mud and biro.

I created this piece (the wave photo is credit of: Andrew Castellano http://www.jpgmag.com/photos/389655.

It’s a photoshop- collage/artwork using some fancy brushes.

The image has architectural elements which generate a sense of perspective into the image. The composition creates energy and visual movement.

I’ve been freelancing as a web designer for the last 4 years with a 15 month stint with a company as the web designer / graphics / creative.

I’ve been writing a blog successfully at http://andy.ride-earth.org.uk for the last 2 years and it’s given me a lot of confidence in Wordpress as a platform for my portfolio in terms of longevity, functionality and getting exposure.

It will contain web projects with the 5 w’s and H, artwork and graphics of note and new works and also something I’ve really neglected to promote well- my audio projects.

I’ve been travelling by bike but for the moment I will be able to hopefully contribute regularly here and build a good resource for myself and others. I’ve got a lot of information, research and workflow ideas and techniques,but it’s better if I can share them with people – so this place can become a reference for myself and hopefully others.

I’m living in Tbilisi in Georgia which is in the Caucasus. You may have seen it on the news last year when there was a war with Russia. However, the war although as serious as any war only lasted 5 days and was a bit of a routing seeing as Georgia is a country of 4 million compared to Russia’s ….. whatever.  Georgia is a small country and Russia was flexing it’s muscles. Anyway, generally Georgia is very peaceful and an extremely beautiful country of wonderfully varied landscape and important environmental value.

I created this in Photoshop and through daily sketches in my notebook whilst I was in New Delhi in March 2009 and going through a process of getting visas and dealing with bureaucracy. It’s an experiment with placing objects and spaces to create a composition. I wanted to discover my deeper creativity through trying to fit time in every day to sketch something. On top of that I created the photoshop composition. It is very primitive and lacks necessary layers of meaning and ideas. Rather it’s one idea layered on another for the sake of it. However, the point was the process of making something.