Sponge Project
Soaking up the standards!
Sponge Project is all about web design with web standards - hence soaking up the standards! Each website I create is hand-coded in a true craftsman style. This means full control over what goes into your site, plus it comes with the quality and attention you would expect from a hand crafted product. For non client work, you can see the other services I run. My name is Rob Mason and you're welcome to drop me a line.
Portfolio
Exam Angel: Hand-coded site combining content pages and eCommerce functionality for an online exam technique and support provider. The site uses jQuery in a number of places to enhance the user experience and is supported with CSS3 for modern browsers.
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Schelmish UK: Hand-coded site for the UK representative to Schelmish, a German medieval gothic rock band. The site is sprinkled with progressive enhancements, such as the latest CSS3 and judicious use of jQuery, to improve the user experience for modern web browsers.
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Tewkesbury Medieval Festival: Design and build for a not-for-profit organisation in Tewkesbury. Hand-coded using the latest progressive techniques to enable leading web browsers to get more interactivity and higher graphical fidelity, whilst maintaining a great user experience for older browsers.
Tewkesbury Medieval Festival »
Tirlebrook Primay School: Design and build for a primary school based here in Tewkesbury. The site was built to use Wordpress as the CMS thereby making it quick and easy to update. The theme and back end were heavily modified to create a unique design for new and prospective parents and pupils.
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Services
In addition to web design and email design services, Sponge Project offers ancillary services, such as:
Jobatronic: an easy-to-use job site for Gloucestershire. We aim to make it easy for jobseekers to find a job and for employers or agencies to post new jobs.
Visit Jobatronic »
IFA Websites: helping IFAs and financial advisers to get the most from their websites. A regularly updated blog that discusses everything to do with web design, technology and the internet specifically for that audience.
Visit IFA Websites »
News for Tewkesbury: Design and build for a personal project. Built using SimplePie to fetch a series of RSS feeds from multiple websites and bring them together into one simple to use website.
Visit News for Tewkebsury »
About
Sponge Project is a trading name for Rob Mason and operates out of Tewkesbury, England. Sponge Project is all about web design and email design with web standards (hence soaking up the standards!) and accessibility. I'm a firm believer that a quality website starts with the bits the user cannot see, which means I look after the mechanics of the websites as well as the aesthetics. As detailed above, I hand craft the sites I build where possible and where it's appropriate to use content management systems I only choose ones that are complementary and sympathetic.
I'm primarily a front-end specialist, focussing on designing and building the bits your see on a website. My skills lie in using techologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I am also experienced in setting up and deploying Wordpress-powered sites.
The origin of the name Sponge Project is very boring: a mate asked me to come up with a cool name for a website many years ago...the best I could do was Sponge Project. I thought it was genius, but only time will tell! Anyway Sponge Project may be a strange name, but at least it's memorable. Some of the icons used in the contact section are courtesy of Fam Fam Fam and the font in the heading is Bigfish by Floodfonts.