Early years

Since 1999 I have worked on a variety of projects and have gained experience working as a Web Editor, Front End Web Designer, Flash Designer/Developer, Front End Web Developer (HTML, XHTML, CSS, AJAX) and as a Back End Developer (PHP, MySQL, and Javascript).

Looking back, my first experience of working with the Mac, for many the design tool of choice when working with muitimedia and print based material, was using Pagemaker to layout various promotional collateral for Nortel's Marketing Department back in 1994. It was not until a few years later while feeling slightly disillusioned with temping and moving from one job to another, that in 1998 I decided to go out and buy myself an iMac with a view to learning everything there was to know about the internet and also teach myself how to create or design, develop and implement a website, (hopefully with the idea that one day, I too could come up with a great idea for a website that would make me a million or the world a better place one day!).

I first gained experience working mainly on a freelance basis creating websites and also working with print based media. This including designing and printing flyers for promoters and small businesses using tools such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Quark.

Gaining experience in these areas gave me the confidence to expand my skills as a Web Designer and Developer and by 2001 I had familarised myself with more professional tools such as Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks which at the time were the professional website creation tools of choice. At the time I became proficient using image slicing techniques to produce outstanding looking websites based on a design often created using more creative graphic design software. Macromedia Flash was also a very exciting technology that enabled designers and devleopers to push the envelope. At the time most people in the UK were still accessing the internet on their dialup connection at home so the ability to create streaming media that was optimised for quick download was exciting

For more information about my experience to date, please feel free to contact me and I can send you the latest copy of my CV.

Moving forward

Are you a Sole Trader, Professional, Partnership or other Small Business or SME? Are you looking for a freelance web designer, who has experience working from concept stage to fruition with many websites or varying complexity and purpose as well as contracting to some of the leading design agencies, in the UK today? If so then please feel free to contact me today.