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Bart Nagel – web developer

I’m the Bart Nagel from the UK. Others I know of are the photographer from the US (who, incidentally, provides a list of us) and the journalist from Holland.

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

There are contact details below.

Here will eventually be a full portfolio website. However, development has been on hold to make room for my degree and, now that I have it, will at some point resume.

For now, a simple list of websites I have finished:

  • 2009: Mamafit (ante- and post-natal exercise classes) – mamafit.co.uk
  • 2007–2008: Southampton University Live Music Society v2 and 2.5 – livesoc.co.uk
  • 2008: Mind the Gap (informational site) – mindthegap.susu.org
  • 2008: Learn Freelancing (proofreading courses) – learnfreelancing.com
  • 2007: Southampton University Staff Club Football Society – suscfs.soton.ac.uk
  • 2007: Signal to Strike (rock band) – signaltostrike.com
  • 2006: The Market House Inn (inn in Glastonbury) – themarkethouseinn.co.uk
  • 2006: The Dance Floor Fillers (functions band) – dancefloorfillers.com
  • 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 – treecare.uk.net
  • 2005: 64dollar Productions (video production company) – 64dollarproductions.com
  • 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 just dug up the intro

Sites under construction:

  • Soultown (functions band)

And other little bits I’ve built:

  • 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, Amazon and, soon, its own website – sample PDF
  • 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 of rock band Inme’s UK number 25 single “Crushed Like Fruit” – view

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 (PHP, MySQL, Linux/Unix shell)
  • 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 and Mootools
  • APIs such as Google Maps, Google Checkout, Paypal and Amazon
  • Flash development (for example music players, menus, ecards, intros, simple games — I now prefer to stay clear of Flash-only sites)
  • 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)

Other bits and bobs

A few months after switching to Linux (which you should do too, no matter who you are), I decided to start writing down the little things I took some time figuring out how to do. I keep the list up to date here.

Some of it is specific to a particular distribution (Fedora or Ubuntu) but most applies to all Unix-like OSs, including Mac OS X.

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). Most of the following software packages are open source and therefore free and (in many cases) cross-platform.

Contact details

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

Older email addresses you might have for me (for instance my first name @bnagel.net) are still operational.

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