Welcome to Planet Acres. I'm James Acres and the aim of this site for you to browse through all the web sites I have worked on.

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 modern browsers.
I've created several complex systems using PHP which interact with My SQL databases.

As well as these complex systems I've done lots of graphical work in the past 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

This web site was set up for a local cricket club. I knew the web site would be updated with new information all the time, therefore I needed a content management system to be set up. I chose to use Joomla as it's simple to use and customize. I designed all the graphics and the layout of the modules I installed. I have also written a custom module which integrates with their existing user system which allows members to log in to view fixtures, results and to set their availability. This web site is now one of the most impressive and useful Cricket Club sites on the internet.


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

A web site and administration system I designed for Argyle Electrical Services. Adding latest news onto the site is simple with admin controls. The individual pages can also be edited with ease. Also boasts a simplistic usable menu system. The web site also has some unique features such as randomly displaying images in the header from a directory, this is all automated on the server.


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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. So 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 archive it and 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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Show Kalkan Restaurants
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http://www.kalkanrestaurants.com

A new project we've taken on. We aim to make a new internet resource of restaurants in the Kalkan area in Turkey. 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. This is an advanced system I created, so hopefully the site will become successful.


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