About Me

I’m a web designer and developer currently located in North Wales, UK.

I specialise in passionately building stylish, standards compliant and accessible websites from scratch using the latest cutting edge web technologies, without cutting corners.

Originally from Wilmslow in Cheshire, I moved to picturesque North Wales in 1998 and have been interested in computers and the Internet ever since. Eventually I started to build websites on a freelance basis for local clients as well as work on my own web projects in-between my studies with some success.

I have a keen interest in online business and e-commerce, helping companies to make the most of their Internet presence and even sell more products helping them become a success in the online world.

I believe attention to detail plays a huge part in a successful web presence along with a website that has been carefully validated, constructed with accessibility guidelines and usability in mind. I also realise that accessibility guidelines should inform but not completely dictate design decisions and hence not to go over the top.

I’m both PC (Windows) and Mac proficient, and I am most most familiar with building websites in a Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP (LAMP) environment. I’ve used and built my own Windows based systems for about 8 years until mid 2008 when I made the switch to Mac, haven't looked back since!

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Education

Degrees:

Bachelor of Arts - Creative Studies (2007-2009)
Foundation Degree - Creative & Interactive Media (2005-2007)

Additional Study:

Advanced Vocational Certificate in Education ICT (2003-2005)
Cisco IT Essentials (2003-2005)

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Skills

Code:

W3C (X)HTML
W3C CSS
jQuery + Plugins
Google Maps API
PHP 5
MySQL
XML & RSS

Software:

Adobe Fireworks
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Flash
MS Office Suite
SVN

Scripts:

ExpressionEngine
Wordpress
Magento
Cubecart 4

Misc:

Paypal
Worldpay
Google Analytics
Google Adsense
Google Adwords