A Pretty Penny is a new online store for everything retro and collectable including a wide range of designer glass and ceramics.  I would highly recommend it as a place to get quirky, unusual Christmas presents! I built the store on the free shop script platform (which uses Smarty templates).

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The store is now open. Check it out: www.aprettypenny.co.uk

I have recently been working on my first project on the MediaWiki platform, a football wiki site for FootballFanCast.com. The Football Fans Wiki is a wiki written from the fans perspective, with information about each team's stadium, transport info, where to eat & drink locally, songs, programmes, merchandise store, links,video clips & more.

Key features that I added as MediaWiki extensions:

• Register and login from the FFC site instead of through MediaWiki itself
• News & blog feeds on the wiki homepage

Check it out now: Fans Wiki

The Transfer Tavern is a pub themed blog / site about football transfer rumours. It features two different voting systems by which readers can vote on the pluasability of each rumour, deciding whether the rumour should 'Fly or Die' and also a beer rating to decide how drunk you would have to be to believe the more outlandish rumours.

The most interesting and challenging aspect of building the site was designing and implimenting the custom voting systems. I also designed the pub style logo for the site which I am quite pleased with! If you like to keep up to date with all the latest footy rumours, or want to find out what purchases your team might be making over the summer transfer window then be sure to check it out: www.footballtransfertavern.com

I have developed a quiz game engine based on this original multi choice quiz by animike. The improvements I made to the original flash file are:

1. Removed the need for an external XML file, which makes it easier to distribute virally as a stand-alone file.
2. Added the ability to add infinite arrays of questions, so the quiz will have a different set of questions each time you play.
3. Added the potential to build arrays of questions based on statistical data, perfect for sports quizes.
4. Added the potential to plug the game into various scoreboard and in-game advertising APIs such as MochiAds.
5. Added brandable features such as a 'More Games' link and a preloader screen.

To test the quiz engine I released the first version of my football quiz, with 12 questions drawing from an array of 120 possible questions. It got mixed reviews on newgrounds.com, but seemed to do reasonably well on football / sports specific games sites thereafter. You can try out the first version of the quiz game here: Football Quiz

More recently I have released the first sponsored / branded version of the quiz called Premiership Football Quiz, which is sponsored by one of the UK's leading football websites - FootballFanCast.com. I have plans to work with the FootballFanCast team to develop other football quiz games, relating to specific teams, competitions, etc.

I am also hoping to branch out now into quizes relating to other sports, and to other subjects entirely, such as Pop Music, Movies, TV, Celebrities, Arcade games, World Geography, etc.

If you need a quiz game for your site, or wish to distribute a branded quiz game across a range of games sites please feel free to get in touch. I can quote on a per quiz basis, prices will depend on the level of branding, the number of questions, whether the questions are provided, whether you want me to distribute, etc. So there is no fixed price as such.

Working with design agency Pollen London, I developed this simple, eyecatching flash banner for client Project Associates' website home page.

The banner shows a constantly moving, rotating array of their team, each image linking to the specific person's profile on the site.

Check out their home page to see the banner in action:

www.projectassociatesltd.com