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New Freeview website is live

Ben Ellis — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:31:03 +0000

The new Freeview website is now live and is looking so much better than it was previously. I was part of the team that assisted in the redevelopment of the site and was in charge of developing the Information Architecture for the new site. Hopefully the new visual design and structure will be welcomed with positive feedback!

An autumn surfing session at East Runton, Norfolk

Ben Ellis — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:56:59 +0000

This weekend Richie and I hit up a dawn surf patrol at East Runton on the north Norfolk coast. We got up on Saturday morning at the unearthly hour of 5am. We strapped the boards to the frost-covered roof of the car and were on the road for 5.45am. En-route we were treated to a magnificent sunrise, the kind that makes it all worthwhile being awake at that time of the morning.

On arrival we were greeted by a solid 4-6ft swell, clean lines and plenty of enthusiasm to get ourselves into the water, albeit rather chilly.

We surfed for about 3.5 hours and I managed to catch a good dozen or so waves on both the 6′4 and 8′2. It was great to be rewarded with a decent session with some size after driving all that way and also after surfing in Devon earlier this year in quite poor conditions. I think I might have overdone it though, as I was shivering uncontrollably as I got out (took me the rest of the afternoon to warm up).

I took a few photos before we jumped in the water, all of which are on Flickr, check em out!

Greece

Ben Ellis — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:07:22 +0000

Rosana and I are off to Greece for 2 weeks on the 15th Oct. As a surprise anniversary present Rose booked two return tickets to Athens. I was stoked and touched with the gesture.

We are going to plan our itinerary over the next week and book up some accomodation. All we know so far is that we want to go to Athens and Crete and possibly one or two other islands.

I am looking forward to a little late autumn sunshine, taking some pictures and enjoying the scenery, architecture, food and drink and hopefully our first successful holiday together (if things go well we will book up a trip to Brazil early next year for possibly 4-6 weeks - serious surf time me thinks).

Countdown has begun!

A few photos from the weekend

Ben Ellis — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:01:13 +0000

This weekend Rosana and I hung out in the countryside and enjoyed the good weather and my mum’s bday. We took a little stroll around the back roads of Ugley Green and did a spot of blackberry picking. Here’s a few pics from our trip, the rest are on Flickr.

The Lee Bay Massive 2008

Ben Ellis — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:12:09 +0000

I returned a few days ago, from what could be described as the wettest holiday in Devon I’ve ever had. We had 1 full day of sunshine and then the rest was either showers or heavy downpours, which put a rather large dampener on the whole thing.

The waves were a mixture of 1-2ft clean lines and 3-6ft storm surf. We improvised and managed to use every board in the quiver from the 8′2, 6′4, 6′2 to 6′0. Richie even got stuck in and bought himself a brand new Tiki 8′4 Megamal and has now he renewed the stoke!

I took my Canon EOS and my new EF 55-250mm telephoto lens and got some pretty nice shots. Check out the a few of them on Flickr.

Hopefully as we move into autumn we’ll get some more sizeable and cleaner sessions, wonders will never cease!

Jamie Stephen Represents

Ben Ellis — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:10:55 +0000

Jamie Stephen Represents is a London-based photographic and production agency, representing a diverse range photographers, directors, and directors of photography.

The company had already embarked on developing their website with another supplier, but for one reason or another the website hadn’t been completed. I was contacted to perform what essentially was a salvage operation to get the site into shape and online asap. I tweaked the visual design, tightening up elements such as typography, layout and colour pallet. I also drastically simplified the front-end code structure and ensured it was more accessible and easily updatable in the future.

The site has recently gone live and I am in discussions with regards to the next phase of development.

URL: http://www.jamiestephen.com/

Grand Union Information architecture templates

Ben Ellis — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:48:54 +0000

Whilst working as a freelance Information Architect at Grand Union I was responsible for developing a set of IA templates that will form the basis of a branded IA toolbox for use across every IA project within the agency. The idea was to improve the consistency and quality of the templates and to ensure that each client experiences the same high quality. This involved redeveloping the existing Visio templates and creating new stencil files based on the Yahoo Design Pattern Library.

Digital UK Information architecture

Ben Ellis — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:48:04 +0000

Whilst working as a freelance Information Architect at Grand Union I was responsible for developing the information architecture for the Digital UK Broadcast Microsite. This involved the development of a new sitemap, key wireframes and functional recommendations.

Deliverables

Hierarchical sitemap
Wireframes

Learndirect Business Information architecture

Ben Ellis — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:47:21 +0000

Whilst working as a freelance Information Architect at Grand Union I was responsible for developing the information architecture for a campaign-driven landing page. This involved developing the key user journeys and wifeframes for the landing page.

Deliverables

User journey
Wireframes

URL: http://www.learndirect-business.co.uk/

Freeview Information architecture

Ben Ellis — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:46:48 +0000

Whilst working as a freelance Information Architect at Grand Union I was responsible for developing the new information architecture for the forthcoming redesigned Freeview website. My work included competitor analysis, auditing the existing website and its content and meeting with the client to discuss the needs and objectives of both the business and users.

I delivered a new sitemap and wireframes that incorporated my recommendations for content, layout and technological development. These deliverables were used by both the client and the project team to develop the new site.

Deliverables

Hierarchical sitemap
Website audit
Wireframes

URL: http://www.freeview.co.uk/