Matt Lowden
New Fitter & Faster Homepage
May 25th 2015
New homepage for Fitter & Faster Swim Tour along with the ability to upload a custom background image, for Facebook's "og:image". The event details are then automatically overlaid on the image to create a smart looking image when the event is shared to Facebook.
Fitter & Faster Ticket System
November 23rd 2014
Created a system for the Fitter & Faster website whereby users were sent a PDF version of their purchased event tickets that could be printed off so that they could be given as a gift.
This implementation uses PHP's PDF library to automatically render the user & event details over the ticket template.
Serious Audio & Video
September 1st 2014
Implementing & heavily modifying a responsive YouTube playlist player for Serious Audio & Video.
Farmaesthetics OpenCart Plugin
May 1st 2014
Farmaesthetics needed an OpenCart plugin creating that would allow them to display events from their Facebook page. The finished product was built using Facebook's Open Graph.
Awesome Media Gallery
December 26th 2013
Awesome Media Gallery is a collaboration between myself & Engage Inc and is built on my Community Gallery Manager product.
The goal was to create the most feature-rich & well-designed image & video sharing product on the CodeCanyon marketplace along with a collection of high quality plugins that users can purchase to extend the basic product.
VFX Art Portal
December 8th 2013
VFXArtPortal.com is a service where individuals and companies can publish their artwork, whether it's a 3D rendering, a paper sketch or a video, and connect with others in their industry. Users are also given the ability to create a rich profile where they can display information about themselves, their skill set and advertise their services.
The application was a collaboration between myself & Engage Inc, a Canadian web-service agency, and was built on my Community Gallery Manager product. The team over at Engage Inc did a truly remarkable job extending the core product into the finished site & I strongly recommend them if you're looking for an agency to handle the online side of your business.
Farmaesthetics OpenCart Plugin
December 1st 2013
Farmaesthetics needed an OpenCart plugin creating that would allow them to upload videos, images and PDF files to a media page that could be accessed by users.
Prudential PDF Generator
November 11th 2013
Prudential Castle Point Realty needed modifications to the system used for creating high resolution printable PDF files to display property information in the windows of their branches.
The tools used for this included PHP and JavaScript, including PHP's GD & PDF libraries.
Fitter & Faster Swim Tour Reviews Page
November 8th 2013
Creating a new "Reviews" page for the Fitter & Faster Swim Tour website, where users can submit text or video testimonials for one of the events organized by the Fitter & Faster Swim Tour.
MyJobs
October 23rd 2013
MyJob is a service where users can search Yahoo Jobs, Monster, Indeed, SimplyHired, CareerBuilder using Yahoo Pipes to create an aggregated list of vacancies based on your search criteria.
DLG Architects News Page
October 22nd 2013
News publishing module added to the DLG Architects website & CMS, both of which run on Perch.
Playlists.net iOS App v3
October 18th 2013
Today we've launched the third version of our Playlists.net iOS app for iPad & iPhone. This version of the app runs on our new API which allowed features such as New Releases, Playlist Charts and Reviews to be implemented along with the ability to pin playlists to a location.
The app was developed by Fluid Pixel who put a truly staggering amount of work into delivering a product that exceeded all of our expectations, so a massive thanks must go out to them.
Since going live today the app has already received favorable coverage from DigitalSpy, TechCrunch & The Next Web.
ClickShot
October 16th 2013
ClickShot is a photo sharing community created by photographer Lee Searle. The purpose of the site is to give professional photographers a space to upload some of their best work and share it with others in their field.
The site is built on my Community Gallery Manager product.
Victory Collection Store Locator
October 2nd 2013
Adding a collection of Google Maps Markers to a map based on addresses, pulled from a database & geocoded, for Victory Collection.
Fat Light Fire Cart
September 8th 2013
Small change to Fat Light Fire site to automatically update the cart in the top right of the screen when a user adds an item to their cart.
Playlists.net "New Releases" Section
August 29th 2013
Since Spotify removed it's "What's New" page it's been difficult to find what new singles and albums have been added to the service, which is why we decided to create a New Releases section over at Playlists.net so that users can see a week-by-week breakdown of what is being released on Spotify.
American Pensions Responsive UI
August 15th 2013
American Pensions provide their clients with an array of long term investment options focusing on saving money & planning for retirement.
The site was first designed and developed by GT3 Creative after which I modified these templates to create responsive layouts for tablets and smartphones with improved support for touch.
In addition to the responsive layout working on modern browsers the site also works with older browsers, including IE7 & IE8, thanks to Respond.js by Scott Jehl.
Navigation Point: Castleford
July 31st 2013
Navigation Point is a riverside development of apartments and 1, 2, 3 & 4 bedroom houses in Castleford, UK.
They required a simple content management system enabling them to upload a large number of PDF files, spread across the site's various pages, that users could download individually or in bulk.
OfficialComedy.com Spotify App
July 30th 2013
OfficialComedy.com is YouTube's premier destination for comedy, featuring a huge collection of funny videos by comedias such as Aziz Ansari, Jerry Seinfeld & Jim Gaffigan. OfficialComedy.com wanted to tap into Spotify's growing database of stand-up comedians by creating an app that would allow users to easily find new comedians, one-liners and compilations.
The finished OfficialComedy.com Spotify app is a simple tool that let's you navigate the very best of Spotify's comedians and share your favourites with your friends.
The OfficialComedy.com app received coverage from The Guardian, TechCrunch, FastCompany & TheDrum.
Playlists.net Spotify App Version 3
June 29th 2013
This week we, at ShareMyPlaylists.com, re-branded to Playlists.net along with a new version of the site and our Spotify app, which takes advantage of the latest version of Spotify's App API.
Talented Entertainers
June 20th 2013
TalentedEntertainers.com is a destination for performers, creatives and entertainment professionals to advertise their service to prospective clients.
The site allows entertainers to create a profile, specify what type of work they specialize in and upload a selection of images, audio clips and videos of their work.
LINC Systems CRM
May 5th 2013
LINC Systems CRM is a simple tool for managing LINC Systems' database of existing and potential customers, sharing files & publishing internal news.
The system was built on the LAMP stack and developed using the Mokoala framework & CMS.
Cre843 UX Enhancements
November 29th 2012
Heavy image optimization, dynamic loading of images based on screen position and intelligent navigation, built using PHP and JavaScript.
Hipnotic Wheels Car Gallery
November 21st 2012
Hipnotic Wheels is a sister company of Blaque Diamond, a business I regularly do work for, and after creating the Blaque Diamond Car Gallery they requested I also implement a similar gallery on their Hipnotic Wheels site.
Blaque Diamond Car Gallery
October 3rd 2012
Blaque Diamond is a manufacturer of high quality ultra light wheels for luxury cars. They wanted a gallery of their wheels fitted on different cars with the option to filter images by manufacturer, wheel and wheel size.
The finished product featured inline loading of images & content using JavaScript and implemented Google's "Making AJAX Applications Crawlable" specification.
Robot Workshop IDX Solutions
August 30th 2012
Implementation of new templates for Robot Workshop IDX Solutions.
Coca Cola Summer 2012 Spotify Splash Pages
July 30th 2012
Custom branded splash pages for Spotify links shared from within the Coca Cola Summer 2012 Spotify app.
Coca Cola Summer 2012 Spotify App Part 2
July 28th 2012
The second part to Coca Cola Germany's Summer 2012 Spotify App. This update invites users to login using Facebook, create their own playlist, choose a title for their playlist and customize their own playlist cover using their Facebook photographs. Users can also invite their friends to use the app and view playlists created by their friends.
Each week rapper Das Bo releases a new playlist containing some of his favorite tracks.
Coca Cola Summer 2012 Spotify App
July 19th 2012
Advert built using Spotify's App platform for Coca Cola Germany's Summer 2012 campaign featuring rapper Das Bo.
ShareMyPlaylists.com Spotify App
June 7th 2012
ShareMyPlaylists.com Spotify App built to give Spotify users the opportunity to experience the core features of ShareMyPlaylists.com including Featured Playlists, Top 50 Playlists, the Playlist Generator and also allowing them to share their own playlists on ShareMyPlaylists.com.
The app was built using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. It also uses ShareMyPlaylists.com's REST API and Spotify's JavaScript API.
ShareMyPlaylists.com Version 3
February 2nd 2012
The third major re-development of ShareMyPlaylists.com consisted of a total re-design by Graeme Metcalf along with a completely new architecture and code-base, once again using the Zend Framework.
ReTweet
November 5th 2011
ReTweet is a simple service that allows users to acquire more detailed statistics on their tweets & Twitter usage such as who they retweet the most often and which of their tweets has been retweeted the most.
Elite Resorts of Asia Pacific
January 20th 2011
Elite Resorts of Asia Pacific is a guide to hand-picked luxury Asian resorts & features a huge amount of image, video & text content.
The site was built using HTML, JavaScript & CSS and uses jQuery to greatly enhance the user's interaction with the site's content. The site uses my Mokoala framework & CMS.
Northern Architecture
November 1st 2010
Implementation of new design for the Northern Architecture homepage alongside a brand new admin panel for managing the site's content. Built with JavaScript, CSS, PHP & MySQL.
BBC Inside Out Mobile
April 13th 2010
Inside Out is a project for the BBC written in Java 2 ME (Java for mobile devices) that tracks users as they move between different stages and posting location updated to Facebook & Twitter.
PublicView Sunderland
March 7th 2010
Public art has a unique way of communicating and celebrating what we as a city are all about — both to each other and to the rest of the world. Indeed some of our best artworks have the potential to become the cherished heritage of the future.
MattLowden.com Marketplace
February 9th 2010
marketplace.mattlowden.com showcases my PHP-based products, that I sell on CodeCanyon.net. Although CodeCanyon.net allows basic product information to be attached to each item I wanted to give visitors the opportunity to view a more in-depth description of each product along with images, videos & documentation.
Create Democracy
November 16th 2009
Democracy is a challenging new graphic design exhibition forming part of Design Event, the North East's annual design festival. We're aiming to create the ultimate democratic exhibition; we're inviting designers and illustrators to submit their visual interpretation of the theme of Democracy and only those with the most votes will be featured in the exhibition. All qualifying entries are showcased on this website and you can then vote for your favourite. You can also leave comments on the work and get in contact with the artist/designer behind them.
Windows of Opportunity 2009
November 1st 2009
Windows of Opportunity is a digital design programme to address the visual impact of empty shops in the York city centre. Users are given the opportunity to submit images to be featured in the windows of unoccupied shops in York.
The site was built using PHP & MySQL with a heavy emphasis on quality CSS and JavaScript to achieve the site's unique design and behaviour.
Territories
February 3rd 2009
Territories is York Art Gallery’s community arts programme, and has been funded by the Arts Council. We work with around 10 different community groups each year, offering each group a series of 6 or more practical workshop sessions in the gallery, lead by a professional artist.
Territories was built using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP & MySQL.
Remembering Slavery
August 23rd 2008
25th March 2007 marked the 200th anniversary of the British Parliamentary Act which stopped ships carrying enslaved Africans to British owned colonies. To commemorate this national anniversary, museums, galleries, libraries and archives across North East England put together a fascinating programme of events, exhibitions and lectures, for visitors of all ages and interests.
The site was built using HTML, CSS & JavaScript.
