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Bart Nagel – web developer

I’m the Bart Nagel originally from the UK, now living in Vancouver. Others I know of are the photographer from the USA and the journalist from the Netherlands.

I’m a web developer and massive geek. I produce custom standards-conscious websites with content management. I’m also a designer, but I’m best at the programming bits.

There are contact details below.

Sites I have worked on:

  • 2012: Starbucks Rekindle – (winter campaign, no longer online, for which I did front end development and some back end development including a video generation service)
  • 2012: Starbucks Verismo System – www.verismo.com (front end development including all parallax code)
  • 2012: Nike Jordan Rise Above – www.nike.com/jumpman23/riseabove (front end development)
  • 2012: Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte – (front end development for online Facebook-based game; a short marketing campaign which is no longer online)
  • 2012: Mark Wiens Community Lawn Care – communitylawncare.ca (reworked based on an existing design)
  • 2012: Starbucks Frappuccino – frappuccino.com (here I was one of two HTML/CSS/Javascript developers, and my most prominent pieces of code are the front page shuffle/jingle tech and the mobile navigation)
  • 2012: Starbucks Tazo Tea Time – tazo.com (here I was the sole HTML/CSS/Javascript developer, working from a design from the design team and on top of a framework built by the backend team)
  • 2012: Nike Golf Speed Trials (mobile version) – nike.com/nikeos/p/nikegolf/en_US/mobile/speedtrials (here I was the sole HTML/CSS/Javascript developer, working from a design from the design team and on top of a framework built by the backend team)
  • 2011: Read for Profit (e-book and proofreading course) – readforprofit.co.uk
  • 2010: Decorum Tile Studio (tile manufacturer) – decorumtilestudio.co.uk
  • 2010: Internationale Meistersinger Akademie (singing mastercourse) – meistersingerakademie.com
  • 2009: Ephie Rowe (ante- and post-natal exercise classes) – ephierowe.co.uk
  • 2007–2008: Southampton University Live Music Society v2 and 2.5 – livesoc.co.uk
  • 2008: Mind the Gap (informational site) – (no longer online)
  • 2008: Learn Freelancing (proofreading courses) – learnfreelancing.com
  • 2008: The Pocket Book of Proofreading – pocketbookofproofreading.co.uk
  • 2007: Southampton University Staff Club Football Society – (no longer online)
  • 2007: Signal to Strike (rock band) – (no longer online)
  • 2006: The Market House Inn (inn in Glastonbury) – (my version no longer online)
  • 2006: The Dance Floor Fillers (functions band) – dancefloorfillers.co.uk
  • 2006: Westpoint (rock band) (Flash elements and layout) – (no longer online)
  • 2005: Hold Your Head Up High (book) – (no longer online)
  • 2005: Southampton University Live Music Society v1 – (version 1 no longer online)
  • 2005: Treecare Tree Surgeons – (no longer online)
  • 2005: 64dollar Productions (video production company) – (no longer online)
  • 2004: The Livid (rock band) – thelivid.com
  • 2004: Shawn Lefebvre (music producer) – (no longer online)
  • 2004: Edith Wiens (soprano) – edithwiens.com
  • 2003: The Livid (rock band) – my original site for The Livid is no longer online but I’ve dug up its intro

And other little bits I’ve built:

  • A new page for Microsoft SQL Server
  • Spring 2012 “Swoosh” HTML email newsletter for Nike Golf staff
  • Tweaking Wordpress themes for Christopher Bowes and Paddle Patagonia
  • Adapting and filling a website template and programming for Bloom Microventures
  • Adapted Decorum Tile Studio’s old website to build their sister site Qube Mosaic
  • Cover art for rock band The Livid’s EPs 2006 EP and More Than a Lifetime
  • Holding pages for Investours, The Pocket Book of Proofreading and Ephie Rowe
  • Typesetting and digital annotation for Learn Freelancing’s professional Proofreading and Editing Course and Extra Exercises, available from Learn Freelancing – sample PDF
  • Digital annotation and diagrams for William Critchley’s The Pocket Book of Proofreading, available from First English Books and Amazon – sample PDF
  • Cover art and other packaging for rock band Signal to Strike’s self-titled debut record
  • Mini banner ad for rock band Westpoint’s EP Love and Comfort in a Time of Confuse – view
  • Ecard for rock band Westpoint’s EP Love and Comfort in a Time of Confuse – view
  • “GBH” gaming clan signature – view
  • Cover art for rock band Inme’s UK number 25 single Crushed Like Fruit – view

There are other bits and pieces including graphical desktop applications, various command line tools and forks of libraries available on my Github page.

If you like what you see

If you’re impressed and you need any kind of web development done (or other geeky tasks), give me a shout. Here’s some of the stuff I specialize in:

  • Website backend coding (Python, Node.js, PHP, MySQL/Sqlite, Linux/Unix shell)
  • Responsive site design and redesign, including CSS layout
  • Logo design and redesign
  • Dynamic content generation and dynamic colour schemes
  • Javascript coding – plain ECMAScript or with libraries such as Jquery
  • APIs such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google Maps, Google Checkout, Paypal and Amazon
  • Image and photo editing and retouching
  • Vector-based art (for example turning your logo into something vector-based for use in Flash, or digitally annotating media for print)
  • Proofreading
  • Music notation (for example transcription, transposition and turning your handwritten manuscript into a professional score)

Tools I use

I run the Linux distribution Ubuntu primarily, but boot Windows within my Linux session if need be (once in a blue moon). I’m proud to say that almost all the software I use (and so nearly all the following software) is open source and therefore free and (in most cases) cross-platform.

Contact details

You can get my email address by taking bartnagel.co.uk and replacing the first a with @.

If you wish, you can encrypt messages you send to me using my OpenPGP public key. (There’s another one for ECS-related stuff.)

I am @bjnagel on Twitter (but rarely), bart.nagel on Facebook and tremby on Github. You can often find me on Freenode IRC with the username tremby.