Clicks and Links

Clicks and Links Website Projects

At Clicks and Links Ltd in his role as Senior Creative Designer, Gray has been presented with a variety of projects and briefs to complete. The main responsibilities of the role are:

  • Website design and construction
    • Using hand-coded XHTML and CSS as well as Macromedia website applications and a variety of packages for web and graphic designers.
    • Providing Flash animations and menus for websites.
    • Ensuring sites follow W3C accessibility guidelines.
    • Constantly researching accessibility solutions to common issues.
    • Ensuring cross-browser compatibility of websites testing on both MAC and PC on a variety of common browsers (Opera, Firefox, Safari etc.)
  • Construction of CMS templates
    • Working on a variety of open-source CMS packages including:
      • OpenCMS (under the Clicks and Links brand name of Roundabout)
      • APLAWS
      • Plone
    • working closely with a Development Team to ensure a strong finished product and to research new ways of working with CMS to provide accessible websites.
  • Company branding
    • Brand design including logos and straplines.
    • Determining and providing guidelines on company logos, colouring and font usage.
    • Ensuring quality control over all company branded materials.
    • Design and production of all printed company materials, including brochures, news-sheets and office materials using such packages as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
    • Production and design of exhibition materials (such as 3x3 pull-up stands and gifts).
  • Client marketing
    • Design of client marketing materials including logos and colour schemes.
    • Authoring of branding guides.
    • Production and design of exhibition materials (such as 3x3 pull-up stands and gifts).
  • Project management and support
    • Managing small-scale website projects from initial requirements gathering through to final client sign-off.
    • Authoring of training manuals and product documentation.
    • Running training sessions for clients on CMS usage.
    • Presentations to clients of project designs.
    • Requirements gathering meetings and document authoring.
    • Representing the company at corporate events.

Gray has worked at Clicks and Links since November 2001 and has worked on a wide variety of projects. Please use the links in the Further Links menu to view details of and some examples of work from a range of projects that Gray worked on.

Site Accessibility

  • Level Triple-A conformance icon, W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
  • Valid XHTML 1.0!
  • Valid CSS!