Pixelastic

After Sacha finished designing the pages of this Irish online newspaper, and they were looking for someone to move the great PSD files to great HTML/CSS code.

So I work hard to provide a good modulable markup. The main site having 3 child sites with color variations as well as multiple widgets I had to make someting that could be easily bend to fit any configuration.

This was a good exercice to put into practice the OOCSS coding style. I was also asked to improve the website performance so I make great use of CSS Sprites and dataURI as well as giving some advices on the backend configuration.

As they still have a fairly important part of their readers still on IE6 and IE7 I also had to spent some times to tweak it to make it work on those old browsers.

Go Ménage is a very young home care services company. Their website being quite modest, I was able to put it online on a very short time (less than one week).

Once again, mockups were from Lim, and I coded all from backend to frontend.

The pixelastic.com website had known a first iteration that was a little bit yellow. Well, a lot yellow actually.

It was hastily put online to have something to show, but was mainly composed of a contact form and some screenshots.

This second version, with a much more developped blog marks Pixelastic as an entity, as my professional identity as a web developer.

Coding a website for itself is hard. It's a whole new set of constraints. I ended up being even more perfectionnist on some points because I wanted my website to be perfect, but I was also lenient on some other parts, knowing that I would be the only one to use it.

I'm quite happy with the result, though.

Eesthetic is an online learning website for people wanting to follow a cosmetology career.

Various lessons are available either in PDF format or in video form. Each lesson can be acquiered individually or by signing up to a one-year membership.

For this project I worked from mockups provided by Chloé to do the front-end markup, but also coded the whole backend system.

This was a very motivating project, because it made me fiddle with PDF generation directly from PDF as well as discussing with the Viddler API to provide an easy upload and viewing process.

Mostly unknown in the french comic web for a long time, BDABD is now getting more and more popular.

This website was originally created to allow comic book fans to buy and sell comics to complete their collections. Today, it is opening to a wider audience by publishing daily chronicles on new comics.

I helped them transitionned from their old layout to a new one (created by Baptiste), by integrating the new pages all along the year. They are slowly getting a whole new skin, one page at a time.

Kamy Clean wanted this new website to be build on the same model as their first company, Kamy Nanny so that users could easily link the two.

With Lim, we decided to keep the same visual identity but depicting the world of cleaning this time.

I took charge of the whole backend development (including a payment system) as well as cding the front-end markup.

The biggest tasks was to achieve the asynchronous page loading, directly from the Flash animation and without sacrifying the SEO.

For IGAE, a French company of interior designers for workshops, I started working late in the development cycle.

The whole planning, feature list and mockups were already done by 40° sur la banquise, I had been hired to handle the backend coding as well as mockup integration.

Because I used to work for 40° sur la banquise, the process was painless, I mostly had to adapt features that I had already coded for other websites before.

This was an experiment conducted with a writer friend of mine.

He wanted to make a "choose your own adventure website". He wrote a bunch of different stories, with multiple possible treepath that the reader could choose from that would impact the final story.

A main element was that each story was in fact a dream and that you could "wake up" almost anytime and start a new story, in a new dream.

The interesting part is that you never know what the next dream will be. It may be better or worse. Will you wake up if you are living a perfect life ? Will you be tempted ? And what happened when you discover that you can't wake up anymore and that you are in the real life ?

For its creation, Kamy Nanny wanted a website with a strong personnality. They already had in mind a visual image of the fantasy world they wanted to display.

Lim transformed their ideas into mockups and Flash animations that I coded into the existing website.

Although you can't see it if you're not one of their client, there also is an online payment system.

There are 4 different website stylesheet, one for each season, that are automatically switching.

This was my first freelance experience, and I Kamy Nanny is still one of my clients today, they asked me a couple others websites since then.

This is the company where I used to work before starting freelancing.

The website is one of the latests works I have done for them before quitting. It reflects the 3 main activities of the company : print, web and press relation.

The website features an asynchronous loading page system (today commonly known as AJAX). It wasn't that common at that time.