Tom Kay Web Developer

Bespoke Web Development

I am a freelance web developer specialising in high quality websites, often with bespoke functionality.   If you are looking for a high quality tailored website to suit your needs then you have come to the right place.

I'm am a self motivated technical expert and have been working in software development for the last 14 years.  I currently hold the position of Head of IT at Optimal Internet, based between Portsmouth and Southampton on the south coast of England.

I provide professional websites for both businesses and individuals.  If you would like to enquire about my services please contact me.

Some projects I am involved with are listed below.

uCore

uCore is a modular Open Source CMS and PHP Framework designed for scalability, flexibility and ease of use.  I started development on this project in 2005.  The first implimentation of uCore was a CRM (Client Relationship Manager) for a large Financial Services firm.  Used to track client applications across various services including Mortgages and Insurances.  uCore has progressed in leaps and bounds over the last 8 years and is now published on a number of live websites including many high end Recruitment Websites and Job Boards.  Performance has been enhanced to make uCore a candidate for consideration on projects of any size.

Custom Google Background

In November 2012 Google took the decision to remove a feature from the homepage which allowed users to change the Google background image.  I wrote and published a Google Chrome extension in the weeks prior to return this much loved feature.  I continue to make a number of enhancements requested by users.  If you are interested, please check out the Custom Google Background Project Page.

Holy Grail Generator

After having found myself regularly building CSS column layouts from scratch, I came across a very reasonable fluid three column layout called Holy Grail created by Matthew James Taylor.  To better utilise this, I created a script to dynamically alter the width of the columns, and provide the resulting HTML and CSS content.

SpellReminder

I once played a popular game called World of Warcraft.  To enable players to be more effective I developed an addon to keep track of in-game effects.  To do this I had to learn another language called LUA.  The addon has been maintained for users over a period of five years.  With over 52,000 total downloads to date, and 150 downloads per month.

jquery.fileManager

To develop certain functionality of uCore, I found the need to write extensions to other popular Open Source software.  This Open Source jQuery addon provides easy navigation of a servers filesystem.  It is used within the Media module of uCore to facilitate website administrators to manage a variety of media uploads including images, videos, and file downloads.

jquery.treeSort

I wrote an extension to the popular javascript library jQuery to allow users to create sortable nested lists.  Similar to a filesystem structure.