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 is currently on hold to make room for my degree and development of clients’ sites.

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

  • 2008: Learn Freelancing – learnfreelancing.com
  • 2007–2008: Southampton University Live Music Society v2 – soton.ac.uk/~livesoc
  • 2007: Southampton University Staff Club Football Society – soton.ac.uk/~suscfs
  • 2007: Signal to Strike (rock band) – signaltostrike.com
  • 2006–2007: The Market House Inn (inn in Glastonbury) – themarkethouseinn.co.uk
  • 2006–2007 The Dance Floor Fillers (functions band) – dancefloorfillers.com
  • 2006: Westpoint (rock band) (Flash elements and layout) – westpointrock.com
  • 2005: Hold Your Head Up High (book) – (no longer online)
  • 2005–2007: 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
  • 2004–2005: The Livid (rock band) – thelivid.com
  • 2004–2005: Shawn Lefebvre (music producer) – (no longer online)
  • 2004–2007: 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)
  • The Pocket Book of Proofreading
  • Ephie Rowe (fitness instructor)

And other bits I've built:

  • Digital annotation for William Critchley’s The Pocket Book of Proofreading, available from First English Books, Learn Freelancing and, soon, its own website
  • 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 (or other geeky tasks) done give me a shout. Here’s some of the stuff I specialise in:

  • Site design and redesign
  • Logo design and redesign
  • Flash development (for example music players, menus, ecards, intros, simple games — I now prefer to stay clear of Flash-only sites)
  • PHP/MySQL
  • 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, turning your handwritten manuscript into a professional score and transposition)

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 now run the GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu primarily, but boot Windows within my Linux session if need be. Most of the following software packages are open source and therefore free and (in many cases) cross-platform.

Contact details

You can email me at bart@tremby.not (net, not not). Older email addresses you might have for me (@bnagel.net, for instance) are still operational.

If you wish, you can encrypt messages to me using my PGP public key.