I don’t do a lot of brochureware sites, and the ones I do I rarely put in my portfolio because I’m not particularly gagging to do more of them. Radisens.com, however, is going in for two reasons:

One, I like it a lot. No idea why; I just do. It might be because I did the voice-over for their video,  which was fun. I’ve never done a web one before but suddenly ever client wants voiced video, so there are more coming in future projects.

Two,  if you happen to have a spare hundred thousand or two, I am telling you right now: give it to Jerry O’Brien and you will die a billionaire. This is world-class, game-changing technology for the (highly lucrative) medical diagnostics marketplace. Jerry has his head on straight, knows where he’s going, and this Irish company is one to watch on an international level.

The Good Wine Show site went live a few weeks ago, but I didn’t have the ten minutes to tidy the tiny stuff nobody else will ever notice until last night.

When you have a budget of tuppence and literally need a site the day after tomorrow, every corner gets cut – including the whole mock-up and approval process. The first time the show organisers saw this site was when it went live the morning of the deadline. I vastly prefer to sacrifice development over design time, so this site is built on a completely customised stock template, and the order form and all calculations are driven by FormSpring.

The Show site budget was for about a day, although the site took one and a half. On the plus side, three of Cork’s finest wine merchants each owe me a bottle of their favourite white, so I can live with that :)

I finished up work for LittleQuiz.com some time ago, but they were waiting for their swanky swag to arrive so they could launch. For this project, branding, slogan, blog and website design and a bunch of product and print design was done by me; the site and system was coded by the very talented Dave of Ambient Age.

This was definitely a Stalinist web design project but Joe Scanlon is an ideal client and did indeed love what I gave him. It can also be tricky when you’re doing design and someone else is coding, but what Dave turned out looks exactly like the mock ups, to the pixel, and that isn’t easy. Plus his Ajax bits are very sexy.

“Site launch” is a bit of a misnomer, as the functional but fugly Twitter Mosaic was up and running and already getting loads of attention when Walter Higgins asked “What’s your availability? Can you make Twitter Mosaic pretty?” My answer was “My availability is shit, but yes.”

There’s no time like the present, so Guillermo Moreno and I sat down at midnight to see just how fast we could get design, XHTML and CSS out the door, and Walter woke up six hours later to a brand new Twitter Mosaic.

WeddingDates.ie allows couples to search for available reception venues across Ireland by date and by county. It’s a simple idea that turned into a powerhouse website, and I’m delighted for Ciara Crossan, who has enough energy and enthusiasm for 12 people and will totally drive this to success. Front end design by me, back end Django development by Python god Bartosz Ptaszynski.

The site soft-launched a few weeks ago, but today rolled out a really interesting survey on the recession and wedding budgets, with a very cool prize draw. So if you’re engaged, go check it out and maybe win a swanky hotel get away and golf package!

It is entirely possible I have been waiting my entire life to do a website for a circus, because I can’t think of a site that’s been more fun to build or a site in my portfolio that I love more than Circus Vegas. The design was just enormously delightful to create, and even though the poor client had to wait a completely rediculous six months, we both think it was worth it. Features a CSS layout and a WordPress blog all about the facinating world of circus life.