PROJECTS

Image 1 - My first portfolio website that I have coded
Image 2 - Added services into my first portfolio website and made a few changes
Image 3 - Redesigned with new colours, logos and images, and style

All my websites, as well as my current one, were created using HTML, SCSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap. I had little to no experience developing a portfolio website and was inspired by other websites for the basic looks that I can generate from codes. Understanding my specialty for freelancing, properly developing my bio, exhibiting my work well, and presenting what sort of services I do were my decisions for why my current website looks different.

Previous portfolio websites

Chooza is an online marketplace where every purchase puts money into the hands of charities throughout New Zealand. The site generates funds for charities by giving consumers a selection of great deals, and enabling them to donate directly - or by choosing to buy with a percentage going to charity. It's one of the two businesses that I've worked with during my internship as a Digital Doer under Manaaki.

In this internship, I coded using my frontend web developer skills. The following links are the pages that I've coded in HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap. One challenge was understanding the term "slug" in websites which caused some backend issues. But after research, I managed to not crash the website's platform and continued working on the other pages well.

Click the buttons to view the pages that I have worked on.

Content design

Content planner

S360, also known as Sustainability 360, is a small company that creates an app that allows any size organisation to estimate its carbon footprint. S360 was the other company where I interned as a Digital Doer under Manaaki.

Digital marketing was the project I was given to work on, and while I was an intern there, I was able to put up a content planner that has a month's worth of content. As this planner might be modified from time to time, after it had been first filled up, their designer and I worked on templates for various content guide ideas.

Content planner

Project 1 - CRO Audit

Rugby Bricks was built to help provide players, coaches and supporters the best tools and information available for the game of rugby. My fellow Digital Doers in the Digital Doers Academy programme and I were introduced to their Managing Director, Kale Panaho, by Manaaki.

So, as part of a programme assignment, I conducted a Conversion Research Optimization (CRO) audit for them. The most difficult problem was that there were little directions on how to perform the Heuristic Analysis and which pages to seek for it on. My idea was to look at which pages might get the most traffic.

Project 2 - Recommended Online Tools

Sarah Evans, the founder of this small business, is a dear friend of mine who works as a freelance makeup artist and has clients who require her services from time to time. As a fellow freelancer and as part of a Digital Doers Academy assignment, I created a document that lists the finest online tools for her and her business.

The most difficult aspect of this task was determining her budget and the cost of the internet resources. So I conducted a lot of research and comparisons that I know will benefit her equally with her budget.

MQ Tooling Ltd. is a small business in New Zealand that supplies engineering tools to businesses or individuals who have an interest in such tools. The founder approached Manaaki for help with the company's website — revamping the UX/UI design of it — and I accepted to lend a hand.

Developing the homepage was a simple task as I used one of Shopify's free themes and altered it with their drag-and-drop feature. However, with the other pages, I had to learn to use my frontend development skills to modify the texts into the table/boxes properly and fix some links to either open to a new tab or to the current tab.

Click the buttons to view the pages that I have worked on.

Website revamp

Kadisha contacted me to help her design her business's website. I've spent some time reviewing Kadisha's old Wix site, and found that the design was outdated.

The first step was to discuss what sort of look and feel she wanted for her new website, and then as she got comfortable with the new concept and color palette, I was able to implement it on a mockup that she had provided me with.

Website Revamp   kadishamara.com