Joined Europe’s biggest commercial broadcaster to guide creative and production teams in turning entertainment brands into destination sites. This new domain demanded a single tone of voice, coherent and compelling, showcasing the hero brands – Coronation Street, GMTV, ITV Football, Millionaire, Pop Idol, I’m A Celebrity, The Bill – and using other shows to add [...]
I helped the UK’s official Millionaire website reach which of these milestones? A: 1.5m players B: 30m game plays C: Top industry award D: All of the above Adopting The Field of Dreams principle, I worked full-time with Celador, Carlton, ITV and Granada, to launch the British website of the world’s best-known gameshow, at a [...]
More of a paid hobby than a job, Popcorn is a career highlight.
From The Red Carpet is screened in Odeon, Cineworld, IMAX and Picturehouse cinemas across the UK. It’s currently presented by two talking chocolates. I contribute infrequent -very infrequent – postings to its blog. One day I will invoice them.
Plastic pop moppets Hear’Say may have been the Poundstretcher Fleetwood Mac, but I loved them all. Even Shrek. Working on the official website (for Granada Broadband), I drafted house style, editing and contributing daily content charting the trampled dreams of brittle tykes. High points: UK’s biggest webcast – at that point – with 70,000 participants; [...]
Healed the world as a hexadecimal Dear Deidre, solving readers’ HTML woes in a monthly column. Regular freelance commissions too, for the UK’s best-selling designers and developers magazine, ranging from new and reviews to early-doors features on breathtaking new possibilities such as SEO or background colours.
Great venture – enabling mobile phone micropayments – with ongoing personal involvement. Presented to me in unconventional English, all site copy required extensive redrafting, with tone-of-voice defined dynamically, based on my previous online and mobile experience.
Online Editor for Future Publishing’s movie magazine, re-purposing print content, writing web-only features, plus coding, laying out and designing duties. Inexplicably, it appears to be thriving without me.
Segueing from genocide to cystitis phone-ins, This Morning offers succour to all those who start the day with a Valium and two fingers of Chivas Regal. Working on the official website, I supervised tone and values, produced daily editorial and played a minor role in shifting the site forward as technology (streaming, downloads, increased interactivity) [...]
Chastise umlauts one day, cut a biker out of a photocopier the next. When FutureNet wasn’t a playpen it was a finishing school, drilling simians in Web 101. I played musical chairs on a portfolio ranging from guitars to gaming; 50 sites and 500,000 registered users at a time when GIFs were audacious. My strategy: [...]