Mark J Smith

A web developer based in Bristol who loves building for the web almost as much as he loves eating. Mark loves coding the front end of web sites and applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and develops applications server-side with PHP when forced to and Ruby when he gets his own way. He cringes when he has to write about himself in the third person, and often stops doing so before he is fi

If you're interested in that sort of thing, you can check out his CV.

I've launched a blog!

Over at markwrit.es I've launched my brand new blog! Over the coming months I'll be keeping it updated with articles about web development, the web industry, and general things that interest me. I'd love it if you could check it out.

Some of my projects

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Sam Boyd's Custom Made Surfboards

Sam Boyd's Custom Made Surfboards

This site was made for a university assignment. We were given a spec image and had to mark it up using HTML5 and CSS3. The key focuses of this project were fluidity of page layout and creativity of the functionality on the other pages, while including certain elements (a form, hcard, tooltips, etc.).

This was my first time using CSS3 media queries to generate a fully fluid layout at any browser width and I enjoyed learning and using these techniques. I'm quite pleased with the outcome and believe I deserve the 93% I was awarded for the site.

You can check out the site here.

Bristol City Centre Church

Bristol City Centre Church

This is a site I built for a local church. The logo was designed by Matt Doherty and I created the site layout and design. The main aims of the site redesign were to simplify the site's content structure and strip out the unnecessary. It was previously a mess full of duplicated and confused content.

I built the site into WordPress, but only as a simple CMS. No blogging features were necessary so I only used one template across all the pages.

You can check out the site here.

Twin Cities

Twin Cities

This was a group project for a university assignment. We had to use various public APIs to pull data about two twinned cities (one of which in the UK). I built the components to gather weather data and Instagram pictures.

The project can be viewed here, and the code can be seen on Github here.

Github: markjs

Github Octocat

You can view some of my projects in progress and the code for some of my shipped projects on my GitHub profile.

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