Welcome to the Portfolio of Billy Smithers, a web developer based in Hull, England.

Hull and Goole College Portal

screenshot of Hull and Goole College Staff Portal

Staff view

screenshot of Hull and Goole College Student Portal

Student view

Brief: To design and develop a portal to enable a single gateway to and integration of various college web services/ systems.

Technical: Content Management System / Portal with user authentication, over 1000 fully searchable documents, different views depending on level and type of user (i.e. system administrator, tutor or student) and integration with the college's Virtual Learning Environment (Moodle). The system follows W3C guidelines (XHTML and CSS), to ensure accessibility and compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act.

My role: To design, develop and maintain the backend system using PHP, MySQL, LDAP (for user authentication), ODBC and Microsoft Indexing Server (for document management).

Client: Hull College.

(This system is internal to Hull and Goole College).