Nick Luft's Web Site
My Website Designs
I want to build simple and elegant websites that are easy to read from the screen. I avoid fuss and fluff, prioritising the presentation of words on screen. I want the websites I design to be read.
I also advise on writing for the web, undertaking copy-editing.
Here is the list of sites I have worked on, with comments, dates, and links if available.
Written: 7 September 2009
Myriam Declair (2009)
I made this simple site for Myriam to advertise her book and her work.
"This site was conceived to inform interested parties on the nature of Myriam's work, as she shares her experience of having been involved in a cultic environment and subsequent recovery."
Myriam Declair [www.myriam-declair.org]
Association for Security Sector Reform Education and Training - Website (2008)
My second Drupal site. Well again, the tough stuff in Drupal was subcontracted to matslats.
I did the design of the site, and structure, plus designing the database under the hood.
Association for Security Sector Reform Education and Training (ASSET) [asset-ssr.org]
Private Security Regulation Net - Website (2008)
This site was a first for me. I was involved in the design of the look, the structure and the database and at the same time I learnt how to do these things in Drupal.
Most of the hard work in Drupal was sub-contracted out to the most excellent and talented matslats.
Private Security Regulation Net [www.privatesecurityregulation.net]
International Security Sector Advisory Team (ISSAT) - Website (2008)
This was a subsite I created for the ISSAT team whilst I was working at DCAF. I created the design, the structure and edited and proofed the content.
Unfortunately after I left they insisted on changing the menu to have those awful javascript powered drop-down menus. Far too fussy and they obscure the text....
A multi-lingual site - French and English.
International Security Sector Advisory Team (ISSAT) [www.dcaf.ch/issat]
Serenity Healing - Website (2007)
My good friend Marlene was attempting to maintain this site using Word. So I offered to update the design, recreate the site in DreamWeaver and then trained her to update the content using DreamWeaver.
And she paid me in meals, good company, DVD loans and some blue light healing. Well worth it.
Also it is another multi-lingual site - French and English.
Serenity Healing [www.serenityhealing.ch]
Swisscontent Corp - Website (2007)
My first proper freelance contract. Not a very complicated site, excepting it was multi-language in German and English.
The site's structure has not changed since I signed-it off.
Swisscontent Corp [www.swisscontent.ch]
Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) - Website (2005 - 2008)
This site is very much as I left it, in July 2008.
I arrived in Geneva in April 2005 and was presented a pre-agreed design and told to get on and implement it. Bit of a surprise, I was hoping to design it myself.
Most of my work at DCAF was updating, editing and improving the content. I introduced things like proper title and alt tags, filename conventions, and also tinkering with the CSS to improve legibility, adding more white space via line-spacing, letter-spacing and padding.
From 2007 I planned and managed the partial introduction of a Content Management System for this site. The project was to finish in 2009.
Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR) - Website (2003 - 2005)
Sadly this site no longer exists.
This was my first job specialising as a website editor and manager. I contributed to the design concept, mostly for the bibliographic database that the website was to house.
This replacement site still uses that database. There are a few elements of the design I helped build still there, but not much.
Centre for Security Sector Management [www.ssronline.org]
Joint Services Command & Staff College Library - Intranet page (1997 - 2003)
This site also no longer exists. It was a simple one screen attempt to gather the four most important services together on one page.
MoD Whitehall Library - Intranet page (1996)
Nothing remains of this site, but a distant sigh. So young, so inexperienced, so much typing of html.
Updated: 20 January 2009
Contact : nickluft@gmail.com