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Hello. My name is Ryan Taylor
and I'm a Web Designer & Front-End Developer.

Ryan Taylor

Featured work

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Sol

Guru

Guru are a new cloud hosting company offering flexible solutions that are easy to understand. This project was a blank canvas so we could have some real fun with it. I teamed up with Naomi Atkinson who handled the design work and brought that Guru character, "Beep", to life. There are some really nice responsive elements on this site, such as switching from a slider interface to a tabbed interface on the Managed by Guru page at smaller resolutions. Check it out!

Visit: guru.co.uk

Credits: Design by Naomi Atkinson, Back-End Development by Graham Smith and Front-End Development & CMS Integration by me.

Technology & Techniques Used

  • ExpressionEngine ExpressionEngine
  • jQuery Responsive
    Design
  • CSS3 Keyframe Animations CSS3 Keyframe Animations
  • jQuery jQuery
Sol

Sol

I worked with CKSK to roll out Sol's new website. It's a simple site utilising some nice CSS3 transitions and content preloading to give visitors a fluid experience as the navigate around.

Visit: sol.com

Credits: Design by CKSK, Front-End Development by me.

Technology & Techniques Used

  • jQuery Responsive
    Design
  • jQuery jQuery
Create DM

Create Digital Media

Create DM are an iOS and Android app development company based in Tunbridge Wells, UK. I worked with Mike Kus to bring his design to life with some advanced keyframe animations and a responsive layout.

Visit: createdm.com

Credits: Design by Mike Kus, Front-End Development & Wordpress CMS integration by me.

Technology & Techniques Used

  • jQuery Responsive
    Design
  • Wordpress Wordpress
  • CSS3 Keyframe Animations CSS3 Keyframe Animations
Headscape

Naomi Atkinson Design

Working with one great designer is a pleasure, but working with two, that’s a real treat. I’ve been collaborating with Naomi Atkinson to bring her beautifully minimalistic design to life. I think we’re all most proud of the team section, Dan Rubin worked his magic with the camera and I added a hybrid of CSS3 transition effects and jQuery to help visitors get to know the people they’d be working with at Naomi Atkinson Design. Definitely one of my favourite projects to date!

Visit: naomiatkinsondesign.com

Credits: Design by Naomi Atkinson, Front-End Development by me and photography by Dan Rubin.

Technology & Techniques Used

  • jQuery Responsive
    Design
  • jQuery jQuery
Headscape

Cambridge Pianoforte

Cambridge Pianoforte have been agents of Steinway & Sons, the prestigious piano makers, for over 25 years providing a range of services from hire and removal through to complete restorations and tuning. They wanted the redesign of their website to convey the quality of their products and services while providing information about in-store events and special offers maintainable through a content management system.

Visit: cambridgemusic.net

Credits: Design, Front-End Development and CMS Integration by me.

Technology & Techniques Used

  • ExpressionEngine ExpressionEngine
  • jQuery Responsive
    Design
  • jQuery jQuery
.net CMS Feature

.net CMS Feature

Choose the right CMS for your site!

I wrote the 4-page cover feature for .net magazine issue 214, reviewing 20 of the most popular content management systems available today.

Visit: netmagazine.com

Credits: Wordplay by me, editing by the team at .net.

Issue 214
Issue 214
Get Signoff v2

Get Signoff v2

As part of my work at Headscape I was tasked with designing the user interface of Get Signoff v2, a web application created to help design teams communicate with their clients, screenshots and videos of which can been seen here. Unfortunately, due to financial constraints and overheads, the launch of version 2 had to be cancelled and the application has been acquired by Design Signoff.

Credits: Interface Design and Front-End Development by me.

Designing for Fallback in Get Signoff v2
Designing for Complex Data in Get Signoff v2

Technology & Techniques Used

  • jQuery jQuery

What I do

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Design

Design is more than pretty graphics. The aesthetics of your site are important but it's only part of a greater whole. When I design a website, I'm also concerned with: accessibility - your site should be available to as many people as possible, usability - if your site is difficult to figure out, people will go elsewhere, responsiveness - by the end of 2013, more people will be browsing the web on mobile devices than desktop computers*, websites aren't confined to a single device anymore and need to adapt accordingly, your message - what is the focus of your site? If the core message isn't conveyed, the design doesn't matter.

Devices

* as predicted by the Morgan Stanley report

Development

I specialise in front-end development: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I write clean, semantic, standards-based markup that's optimised to give the sites I build as great a response time as possible.

I also offer content management integration so you can maintain your site easily. I have extensive experience with systems such as Wordpress and ExpressionEngine and am skilled in the use of PHP to ensure these systems can be moulded to your sites unique needs.

Structure / Behaviour / Style

A bit about me

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Hello. My name is Ryan Taylor and I'm a freelance web designer, front-end developer and writer living near Leeds, West Yorkshire in the UK with my beautiful wife Michelle and son Jack.

Prior to going full time freelance I worked for the highly respected agency Headscape, firstly as a product evangelist and designer for their web app Get Signoff* and then as a designer on their design team.

My relationship with the company grew from my time spent as the producer of Boagworld, the award winning web design podcast where I not only had the pleasure of occasionally hosting the show but also attending numerous conferences and interviewing industry professionals.

I took these interviews further with my own podcast, Please start from the beginning... where we take a step back in time to discuss their career paths, experiences and the choices that lead them to doing what they currently do.

I'm a regular contributor to .net magazine writing their monthly CMS gallery column as well as several

Collaborating
Collaborating with Naomi Atkinson. Taken by Dan Rubin.

tutorials and features.

I've also had the honour of being a judge for their annual .net Awards since 2010.

In another life I was an IT Technician (back when fixing computers meant warming up a soldering iron) and worked in both the private sector and education (including Wakefield College and the University of Leeds) for about 7 years.

I'd always had a creative itch that never quite got scratched prior to building my first website in 2004.

I'd spent a lot of time trying to find the right outlet, dabbling in 3D animation, music and creative writing but none gave me the same buzz as immersing myself in the endless possibilities of the web and I have as much enthusiasm for it now as I ever had.

* sadly due to financial constraints and overheads this app has now closed down.

Get in touch

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I’m located near Leeds, West Yorkshire in the UK but work with clients all over the world. If you want to meet me in person I am quite willing to travel to see you.

If you’re interested in working with me or want me to write something for you, drop me a line.

For web projects please include an overview of your project, budget* and timescales - I’ll always aim to reply within 2 days.

* Please be aware that I’m unlikely to accept projects with a budget of less than £5K.

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