Portfolio of Websites Developed

This gives links to websites designed. Click on the image to reach the site:-

Website design for the SSSCDRL

A website for the Scottish Salmonella Reference Laboratory at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow. This specialised laboratory provides services for the NHS in Scotland which are described in the website. Research carried out by the Laboratory is described and links to the Annual Reports are given. This is hosted on the Scottish Health on the Web server (SHOW). Completed May 2004. Has undergone revisions in 2005 and 2007. Further developed in November 2007 to include a subsite on the C. Difficile Reference Service which the SSRL then offered. Further updated in December 2008 following a name change to the Scottish Salmonella Shigella and Clostridium difficile Reference Laboratory. The website was re-organised especially to integrate the C.Difficile section and updated at the same time. A further update was made in March 2010.

SHLMPRL website

A website for the Scottish Haemophilus, Legionella, Meningococcus and Pneumococcus Reference Laboratory (SHLMPRL) at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow. The SHLMPRL was formed in 2009 from a merger of two reference laboratories with a long history of providing a reference service to the NHS in Scotland - the Scottish Meningococcus and Pneumococcus Reference Laboratory (SMPRL) and the Scottish Legionella Reference Laboratory (SLRL). The design and structure of this website is similar to those of the other Scottish Microbiology Reference Laboratories and is also hosted on the Scottish Health on the Web server (SHOW). Completed March 2010.

Website for Atomic Spectrometry Updates

Atomic Spectrometry Updates are annual reviews written by a community of scientists, experts in their field. Six authoritative, critical and comprehensive reviews of the major fundamental and applied areas of analytical atomic spectrometry are published in Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. The aim with this website has been to improve a design made by another organisation to be more usable and to increase and update the content of the site. The site includes programming in PHP and Javascript. Initial development finished in June 2005; the site went live at www.asureviews.org in July 2005, but this is a continuing project with regular updates and further developments. Revised September 2006 to a new layout using CSS positioning. This site is regularly updated.

Website for Laboratory Services at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary

Dumfries and Galloway Laboratory Services, based at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, provide biochemistry, haematology, microbiology and pathology services for the NHS in Dumfries and Galloway. The website provides details of the laboratories and the services they provide. Details of the tests they provide are held in a SQL Server database and information supplied to the site by Active Server Pages. The template for the website was provided by Pete Robinson of IT at Dumfries. The website went live on the SHOW server on 27th June 2007 and had been undergoing continuing development. In December 2009, the website was transferred from the SHOW server to an internal Dumfries and Galloway NHS server and so cannot now be seen on the internet. I am no longer responsible for this website.

Screenshot of SPDL website

The Scottish Parasite Diagnostic Laboratory is another of the specialised Reference Laboratories based at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow. The SPDL services requests from all Medical Microbiology laboratories in the NHS in Scotland, offering a wide range of investigations including diagnosis and identification of parasites in clinical material, diagnosis of human parasite diseases by immunological methods, culture of Leishmania and Acanthamoeba from clinical material, an advisory service about investigation of patients for parasitic disease, the appropriateness of tests, their timing and interpretation together with advice about prophylaxis and treatment and free individual tuition for technical, scientific and medical staff in faecal and blood parasitology. The website provides more details and went live on the 22nd February 2008. Website updated 18th October 2010 and again on 19th January 2011.

Screenshot of SMRSARL website

The Scottish MRSA Reference Laboratory at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, UK provides a national MRSA reference service to NHS laboratories throughout Scotland. The Laboratory already had a website developed by a former member of staff. The site has been redesigned and updated. It went live on 21st January 2008.

Screenshot of website of Jim Hamilton Heritage Society of Coalburn

The Jim Hamilton Heritage Society of Coalburn was founded in 2004 and is dedicated to archiving and exploring the history of Coalburn, a former mining village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It has regular meetings and has an extensive archive of material, mainly collected by the late Jim Hamilton.

The website is based on a design by John Zawadzki, the Society's Heritage Worker, and first went live on the 23rd January 2008. The website underwent further development and was completed in April 2008. The site is regularly updated.

Lesmahagow Farmers' Society website

Lesmahagow Farmers' Society produces the Lesmahagow Annual Show which is a long established and well supported event. The aim of the show is to present the skills of the local people both in agriculture through livestock showing, sheep shearing, sheep dog trials but also in crafts, home baking, etc. The show is very committed to involving all villagers of Lesmahagow and surrounding areas, especially children, by incorporating many fun but also educational activities for the youngsters.

The website includes details of the Show, a history of the Society and a photogallery taken at previous shows. The website went live in April 2009.

Clydesdale International and Shires Today

The Clydesdale International and Shires Today is a quarterly magazine for Clydesdale and Shire Horse breeders, exhibitors and enthusiasts worldwide. It is edited and published by John Zawadazki of Lesmahagow, Scotland. The website provides contact details, contents of the current issue and links to websites of interest to enthusiasts of these gentle giants.

The website was transferred from its previous location at www.clydehorses.co.uk to www.clydeshire.co.uk in February 2011, at which time the site was improved. Links to the magazine's Facebook and Flickr pages were incorporated. Updated September 2011 to allow payment of subscriptions by credit card/debit card through Paypal.

STEMRL website

A revised website for the Scottish Trace Element and Micronutrient Reference Laboratory (STEMRL) at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. The STEMRL provides a service of analysis of trace elements and vitamins for the NHS in Scotland.

The website replaces a previous site designed in 2002 and is designed for a larger format. It incorporates include files to allow for easy maintenance. The new site went live on the 28th September 2011.

In October 2011, the website disappeared at www.trace-elements.org.uk and was replaced by a similar site but not under control of the Laboratory. Their webhost, Webfusion, apparently sold off the domain to Big Hit Media. This company set up a Wordpress site with much of the STEMRL's data and shows a NHS Scotland Logo. It does not however have the address or the contacts for STEMRL. At the moment it is not clear what the future of this usurper is. STEMRL were able to obtain a similar domain, www.trace-elements.co.uk, and have left Webfusion to host with Calico. Calico is a Scottish company with a good reputation and has provided excellent service to many local organisations in South Lanarkshire. As this is now on a Windows server, the website had to be converted to run with ASP rather than PHP as the programming language. The change was completed on the 7th November 2011.

Programming

Program for transforming data into reportable results

Designed for the Trace Element and Micronutrient Unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, this program enables data produced by the Varian Vista ICP spectrometer to be processed into a form suitable for uptake into the main laboratory reporting system, Telepath. This is set up for plasma aluminium, plasma copper and zinc, and water analysis. The program is in VBScript with an HTML interface, using the ideas discussed elsewhere on this website. Completed April 2006.

Site last updated: 17th January 2012