Projects

Updogdowndog is the nom de yoga of Sarah Cullen (my wife, in case you hadn't guessed), an Ashtanga teacher based in Verbier. I have looked after this website since it was first designed and developed as a Dreamweaver site by Karen Yeomans in 2006. The site has come a long way since then and now runs on Wordpress and uses the wonderful Nextgen Gallery plugin to display images from Sarah's photoshoots over the years. I've done SEO for this site for a long time as well and had to re-optimise for "yoga in verbier" when we relocated in 2010. The site now consistently ranks #1 or #2 on Google for this and related terms.

Alpine Guru is an online travel business selling chalet ski holidays and hotels. I started the company with my business partner Oli Corkhill in 2011 and have been entirely responsible for the development of the website which is built in Wordpress. As alpineguru.com has around 500 pages and is very image-heavy, we needed a fast, industrial strength hosting platform and a CDN to maximise page download speeds. For this we use the excellent WP Engine in the USA (Texas, to be precise).

Elysian Collection is a chalet holiday company in Zermatt operating at the top end of the market. Their clients include rock stars and other super-rich types and branding and image are hugely important for them. I took over responsibility for their website in 2009 and completely rebuilt it in Wordpress so that they could maintain their own site content and images. The design is based on that of the original site with my own tweaks and refinements. Over the past three years I have added multi-language (English, German, French and &, Russian) support, availability and pricing management and a blog section to the site. The most recent work on the site was to switch from Flash to pure Javascript image slideshows and optimise the performance of the site which included implementation of a CDN provided by Voxel.

Chadwick Hagan is a writer and entrepreneur living in Atlanta, Georgia. Chad commissioned me to develop a personal website for him to share his musings with the world and showcase his various creative projects. I designed the site myself and built it using Wordpress.