eZ Publish is an open source content management system. I have used it for several very large websites. This has included use of the templating functionality of the site, developing custom extensions and also integrating custom third party extensions into sites.
I was nominated for two awards at the eZ Awards 2010, an awards for the eZ Publish Content Management System organised by the creators of the CMS. I was nominated for my article titled “Creating eZ Publish Objects in PHP” which was published on the main eZ community site, share.ez.no and also for my technical blog, OneQuarterEnglish.co.uk.
Although I missed out for my blog, I won the “Tutorial of the Year” award for the article, which was initially written for my blog.
Skills: CMS, eZ Publish, PHP, Writing
For my role at the digital agency The Grand Union, I was tasked with carrying out PHP development for the Freeview website. This includes all of the PHP created for the updated Freeview HD and Freeview Plus sections of the site as well as the What’s New page. Other tasks included ensuring the site was properly optimised for the flood of traffic which occurred when the HD section went live and also moving the site to a new web server.
Skills: CMS, eZ Publish, MySQL, PHP
Publication on the main eZ Publish community site (share.ez.no) of an article I initially wrote for my technical blog. The article details how to create objects for the CMS using custom PHP code to enable users to import content from external sources, or to allow the automation of bulk content creation. The article can be viewed here.
The article was awarded “Tutorial of the Year” by eZ Systems, the company behind the CMS (I was also nominated for blog of the year for www.onequarterenglish.co.uk).
Skills: CMS, eZ Publish, PHP, Writing
Maintenance work on these eZ Publish based sites. Amends included the addition of timed polls and amends onthe Flash competitions on the site. Other changes included incorporating changes made by third parties on to the site and providing stats using custom PHP scripts to extract information from eZ Publish.
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Skills: CMS, eZ Publish, Flash, MySQL, PHP
While I was working for Hachette Filipacchi, my main role was to assist with maintaining and the development of the ELLEuk.com site (based on the eZ Publish content management system). As well as upgrading the Content Management System, a lot of development work took place on the site. Starting with the ELLE Beauty channel, I developed the PHP for ELLE.tv, In The Mag and the News channels. I also helped develop the Culture channel. I was also the lead developer on the Catwalk channel which had a massive increase in page views and unique visitors compared to the previous year. The final development I was involved with was for a new look homepage.
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Skills: CMS, CSS, eZ Publish, HTML/XHTML, Javascript/AJAX, MySQL, PHP, subversion, XML, XSLT
While I was developing websites for HF-UK, part of my initial brief was to bug fix on the hugely popular Psychologies website. This included style fixes and also ensuring the Flash based quizzes functioned correctly.
Skills: CMS, CSS, eZ Publish, Flash, MySQL, PHP, subversion
