jondashrussell

A portfolio.

Because jonhyphenrussell just doesn't sound that cool

About

Me? I'm just a front-end developer / webmaster from Franschhoek who used to drive all the way to Stellenbosch for Burger King, sadly it closed down.

I'm currently between jobs where I spend my time exercising aka not eating Burgerking, reading and applying for jobs, obviously.

Things I'm good at:
  • Coding, check out what's going on under the hood by pressing F12 to open the built-in dev tools in your browser of choice, fingers crossed that it isn't IE.
  • Admin, keeping your sites in tip-top shape.
  • Loyalty, when you hire me you can count on me sticking with the business through thick and thin.
  • Getting the job done, exactly as it states, I get it done.
Things I'm not good at:
  • Design, as you can clearly see by the "design" of this site.
  • Small talk
  • Public speaking
  • Rummikub, my finance beats me all the time.
Things I like:
  • Gaming, went back to playing Grim Dawn after getting the Forgotten Gods expansion, and now patch v1.1.6.0 dropped so I'm hunting for the new totems.
  • Mountain biking, just had my wheels fixed but the bike needs a servce too, there's always something, sigh. I'm currently obsessed with the Dream Builds channel on youtube. Talk about pretty.
  • Craft Beer, No doubt we are spoilt for choice here in the Western Cape, but the uncrowned king surely is Soul Barrel Brewing.
  • Music, been into metal for as long as I can remember. Here's a Spotify playlist.
  • Cooking, I made some pretty sweet Pasta Carbonara the other day.
Things I dislike:
  • Rockstar coders
  • Marketing buzzwords
  • Politics
  • The petrol price
  • Facebook
Did you know?:

As iconic as tumbleweeds are they are not native North America.

Portfolio

Development

Shapesift

Sites designed in Photoshop and built with HTML, CSS, Javascript / jQuery.

2008-2015

Old Mutual

www.oldmutual.co.za

Summary: Addition of new pages, updated styling and maintenance.

×
Cadbury

www.cadbury.co.za

Summary: Site hand-coded from scratch.

×
Full House Furniture

www.fullhousefurniture.co.za

Summary: Site hand-coded from scratch and maintenance.

×
The Fridge Dubai

www.thefridgedubai.com

Summary: Site hand-coded from scratch.

Note: Site redesigned.

×
Slipstream

www.tryslipstream.com

Summary: HTML template customisation.

Note: Site defunct.

×
Webshift

www.webshift.co.za

Summary: Customisation of our in-house CMS rebrand and relaunch.

Note: Site defunct.

×
Butterfly Films

www.butterflyfilms.co.za

Summary: Site hand-coded from scratch.

Note: Site redesigned.

×
Harbour House

www.harbourhouse.co.za

Summary: Site hand-coded from scratch.

Note: Site redesigned.

×
Imagemakers

www.imagemakers.co.za

Summary: Integrated the existing design of the Imagemakers site for their online store.

Note: Site redesigned.

×
Rent-a-Canvas

www.rentacanvas.co.za

Summary: Site hand-coded from scratch.

×
Firsttech

http://firsttechwc.co.za/

Summary: Wordpress template customisation.

×
URcard

www.urcard.co.za

Summary: Site hand-coded from scratch.

Note: Site defunct.

×

Development and Content Management

Sharpspring / GraphicMail

Built the redesigned Sharpspring site on Wordpress and was the webmaster for it as well as GraphicMail.

2015-2016

Sharpspring

www.sharpspring.com

Summary: Mixture of content and ecommerce management.

Note: Site redesigned.

×

Content Management

Oliver + More

Unilever brand sites I worked on running Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and Wordpress.

2018-2020

Dove

www.dove.com/za

Summary: Mixture of content and ecommerce management.

×
Lux

www.lux.com/za

Summary: Mixture of content and ecommerce management.

×
Vaseline

www.vaseline.com/za

Summary: Mixture of content and ecommerce management.

×
POND'S

www.ponds.com/za

Summary: Mixture of content and ecommerce management.

×
Hellman's

www.hellmanns.com/za

Summary: Mixture of content and ecommerce management.

×
Magnum

www.magnumicecream.com/za

Summary: Mixture of content and ecommerce management.

×
Other

Contact

Get in touch.

View my CV on Google Docs.
Or download a pdf copy of it.

Check out my LinkedIn profile.

Mail me for my phone number.