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 creating your site, plus it comes with the quality you would expect from a hand crafted product.
For non client work, you can see the other services I run or my selection of website templates. My name is Rob Mason and you're welcome to drop me a line.
Portfolio
Tewkesbury Battlefield Society: Something slightly different in that the client is a local charity based here in Tewkesbury, who’s aim is to maintain the site for the Battle for Tewkesbury and promote awareness. If you’re interested in your War of the Roses history check out the website as it chronicles the battle that ended said war. Tewkesbury Battlefield Society »
Your Health Club Huddersfield: WordPress-powered website for a gym and health club that allows the client to easily update content. Pre-set colour theme based on the client’s existing corporate colours made for a vibrant overall theme, counterbalanced by whites and greys. Visit Your Health Club Huddersfield »
White Rose Scuba Diving: Original design crafted to work with Wordpress as the CMS. Uses small amounts of jQuery on the home page and is supported with CSS3 for modern browsers. Visit White Rose Scuba Diving »
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. Visit Exam Angel »
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. Visit Schelmish UK »
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 »
Services
In addition to web design and email design services, Sponge Project offers ancillary services, such as:
News for Gloucestershire: a news aggregation site that brings the best of local news from around Gloucestershire into one easy-to-use place. Visit News for Gloucestershire »
Sponge Hosts: an off-shoot from this part of the business designed to provide affordable Website hosting and domain names in Tewkesbury, England for local business. Visit Sponge Hosts »
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 »
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 »
Templates
I dabble with various website and email templates:
Haute Cuisine: A free HTML 5 website template for restaurants. Built to be easy on the eye, very lightweight and easy to edit. Visit the Haute Cuisine demo »
City: A free xHTML website template with a cityscape header. Simple and easy to use code. Visit the City demo »
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 technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I am also very experienced in setting up and deploying Wordpress-powered sites and job sites that are powered by Jobberbase.
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 headings is Bigfish by Floodfonts.
Contact
I am not currently accepting new projects, but if you'd like to get on touch for any other reason please feel free.