Welcome to Planet Acres. I'm James Acres and the aim of this site for you to browse through some of the web sites I have worked on. I am currently studying Maths, Physics, Computing at A2 and I am doing a Cisco CCNA course. Next year my aim is to study Computer Science at University.

If you are interested in me doing work on your existing website or if you have a new website you're thinking about launching please contact me using the link below.

Please click here to contact me if you have any questions or require information.

My number one priority in web design is usability - It must display correctly in all browsers.
I've created several complex systems using PHP which interact with MySQL databases.

As well as these complex systems I've done graphical work and my web sites appear clean and uncluttered in their appearance.

Please click the arrows to expand the sections to see my past projects.


Show Crown Wood Cricket Club
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http://www.crownwoodcc.co.uk

Crown Wood Cricket Club is a local cricket club, one I used to play for. They wanted a new website to exist alongside their Play Cricket website provided by the ECB. They wanted a content management system so any member of the club can log in and submit and participate in content. I decided Joomla was the ideal option, it's also modular and can be extended if needed. Presently I am in the middle of creating a fixtures, results and availability system for the club. The system is currently live and has been for the 2008 season, it is still being improved now however and will be finished ready for the 2009 season. Users can log into their existing accounts on the website and are able to set what games they are available for. I have been writing the program in PHP and it connects to a mySQL database.


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Show Argyle Electrical Services
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http://www.aesltd.net

A web site and content management system I developed and designed for Argyle Electrical Services. Originally adding news was the only part of the website that the administrator could add from the admin area, AES were impressed at the simplicity of adding news and requested the entire site to have similar controls. So I turned the entire site into a content management site that I coded myself in PHP. It may not have as many features as Joomla, but it's got everything AES needs with simple instructions on how to use the system if they need assistance. The web site also has some unique features such as randomly displaying images in the header from a directory, this is all done serverside.


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Show Ken Faulkner's Cricket Books and Memorabilia
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http://www.bowmore.demon.co.uk

This site has a proud page one position on Google for cricket books. This site was more tricky than the majority of sites I have worked on as it was to be hosted on a server without PHP or anything dynamic. I created the template and styles in CSS and the pages in XHTML and used extras such as Javascript sorting of tables of flat data. Updating the site isn't ideal as it isn't possible to have an admin area, but with a simple set of instructions the site can be updated and it looks impressive.


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Show Loud Opinions
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http://www.loudopinions.com

This was my own forum community project. It is now closed, an archive of all the posts built in PHP using My SQL databases is in its place. The forum was reasonably popular with 47371 posts and 94 members over the 3 years. I decided it was time to move on once things started going down and I wanted to give the forum a break.


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Show Apex Office Centre
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http://www.apexoffice.com

Apex Office Centre is a stationary company in England that needed to put their business onto the internet, I created a site which informs people of their services and links to their already existing online catalogue.


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Show Kalkan Chat
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http://www.kalkanchat.com

I designed this web sites logo as well as the web site design. I also set up an SMF forum and customized it to match. This web site was designed for Soner Güçlü who is located in Turkey. I worked with him whilst over there.


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http://www.kalkanrestaurants.com

I've created a system where restaurant owners can edit everything in their area without any knowledge of HTML or anything advanced at all. Photos can even be uploaded to a gallery. The website is aimed at restaurants in Kalkan. Unfortunately I was not able to create enough interest and the restaurant owners in Turkey didn't appear to be particually interested in having an online presence.


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