Just a quick thanks to all the interesting people I met at BETT this year. It was great to talk to people from all over the world and get their opinions on the direction of education in their schools.
Also thanks to the people who watched my SharePoint Design workshop, I will try to get the presentation posted here soon.
Tony
I will be at BETT 2010 with CORE Education and Consulting Solutions. I will be doing a short SharePoint branding workshop.
BETT 2010 http://www.bettshow.com/
CORE Education http://www.coreeducation.co.uk
I will show how CSS can be used to customise vanilla SharePoint sites and how you can use Master Pages and Features to create richer SharePoint designs.
These workshops will be regular across all the days at BETT next week. If I’m free just ask me and I will start a workshop for you.
See you soon,
Tony
Here’s one of my most recent designs for a school in Bradford. It’s SharePoint 2007 site using CSS, master pages and page layouts. It’s an interface for a primary school which hopefully makes it easier to use without losing the SharePoint functionality.
We had a nice opening ceremony which was attended by the local news paper (see below).
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/district/district_bradford/4627331.School_blazes_trail_with_hi_tech_system/
I have posted a few of my new SharePoint Master Pages and Styles below
If you are interested in SharePoint solutions for schools please visit
http://www.coreuk.co.uk
I will post some more designs very shortly.
While Hull has it’s critics, it can still look pretty amazing on a summer evening! I’ve recently moved to Hull with almost everyone telling me how bad it is here. It really isn’t that bad (in the city centre anyway). Just wish I had an SLR 
Please feel free to explore my site, click on the icons to naviagate the site.
I’m Tony Phillips from Codnor in Derbyshire. I have a degree in Digital Entertainment from the University of Derby and I now work on developing Virtual Learning Environments for schools in Derby.
I have over three years experience using WSS, SharePoint 2003 and MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007). I have been working on a project to create a virtual learning management system in the city of Derby. We have nine Schools sites and over 2000 users.
My job has been to provide a secure site for each school and within each school we host email, online learning, online registration, videos, document repositories, legal documents and private work spaces. The sensitive data has to be kept private by using a good Active Directory group structure. I also have experience with CSS (for the customisation of SharePoint), HTML (for embedded features such as video), Flash,
Photoshop, SharePoint Designer 2007, Microsoft office 2007 and much more (see CV).
For the smaller primary schools, I used CSS and HTML to fully customise the site.
During the production of the pastoral and business side of the VLE, I have become very competent and creative with custom lists and much more advanced concepts. My success at creating a VLE from scratch has changed the schools philosophy on how to communicate with the wider community and how to interact with parents on a much more intimate level.
The SharePoint portal is used on average 1600 times a day. Using SharePoint’s usage data and google’s analytics, I have produced reports on the VLEs success and which areas are used the most at certain times throughout the day (see page 4).
My work at West Park has been with little supervision and the job has grew as I enhanced the power of SharePoint more everyday. While working at West Park, I have completed Microsoft’s 5061: Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and
5060: Implementing Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 courses. I believe I have the skills to find solutions to most problems that a content management administrator would encounter. My three years experience with SharePoint has helped me improvise solutions to complex problems using SharePoint’s powerful features. My personal projects have included using other content management software like
joomla, moodle and wordpress. I feel that I have the responsibility and passion to administrate and design much bigger business SharePoint sites.
My passion for graphic design has led me to have great photoshop skills to create modern attractive proffessional sites. Example sites can be seen on my website.
http://www.tonyishere.co.uk/web.php
My design skills include HTML, CSS, Flash, ActionScript, Photoshop, SharePoint Designer 2007, 3DS Max and many more.
My personal skills give me a polite and helpful attitude under pressure. I have gained these skills from experience in my other jobs working as a customer sales assistant and working as a football steward where a calm and helpful attitude is very important.
My passion is to learn more and develop skills to help me in the business workplace.
Please take a look at my site and contact me http://www.tonyishere.co.uk/contact.php if you require any further information.
Thanks,
Tony Phillips