Website Design and Maintenance

Combining his interests in visual design and computer programming, Brian creates and maintains websites for various groups and organisations. He is equally happy working with Dreamweaver and hand-coding HTML, XHTML and CSS files; he also uses WIN-PROLOG to automate many site creation tasks, and to implement intelligent components for Windows-hosted websites.

Brian's Website, "Solanum"

Coded entirely by hand, the current version of Brian's personal website is written in 100% standards-compliant XHTML and CSS, with WIN-PROLOG being used to apply the main template design to the individual pages.

Brian's design utilises a fixed format layout, and features CSS drop-down menus, transparency effects, imagery from Brian's extensive photographic library and a "music manuscript notebook" background idiom.

Logic Programming Associates

This commercial website is written in hand-coded HTML and CSS, with several dynamic components, such as the "Squid" search engine, implemented as server-side WIN-PROLOG scripts. Comprising about 150 pages and numeous images, Brian applies global changes to the site using WIN-PROLOG scripts.

The LPA website has a traditional floating format layout, using custom buttons, logos and mouse rollover effects designed in CorelDRAW and Photoshop.

Horsham Amateur Operatic & Dramatic Society

While working as Musical Director for a recent HAODS show, Brian noticed that the content of the company's website was badly out of date, so he volunteered to take over the site maintenance. He was also unhappy about the old-fashioned style of the website, which is shown here ...

Working in Dreamweaver, together with some automation scripts specially written in WIN-PROLOG, Brian set about a total reorganisation and redesign of the website's many hundreds of pages and thousands of pictures.

Brian's new design for HAODS is in a contemporary, fixed format style, featuring pastel colours and new "embossed gold" logos created in CorelDRAW and Photoshop.