12 Year web design and development veteran. My years of experience in this field have given me a wealth of knowledge within the web design business. I’ve designed and built sites for clients around the world from restaurants to resorts, online e-commerce sites to simple brochure sites. I’ve been involved in some pretty complicated projects and I loved every minute of it.
Wordpress has become a very powerful open source platform capable of managing a site as a blog, a CMS system or even e-commerce in some instances. The large community behind Wordpress allow the user to easily extend the site’s capabilities. I design and produce custom Wordpress templates for a variety of site and client types as well as install and sit down for a basic training course with my clients on how to use Wordpress to their advantage.
Not only is it so much faster for browsers to load, the content is easily spidered by the search engines and it’s flexibility knows only the bounds of your imagination. I code purely in CSS and write all of my code by hand. No CSS editors or DW selectors. Keeping the code clean and manageable as well as cross browser compliant are always challenges when writing CSS and over the past few years I’ve become quite skilled at it. Love those style sheets.
PHP has become an extremely powerful tool in day to day web design. I commonly use my library of scripts and snippets on most sites I design and build. Everything from hooking up to a CMS system to running complex online forms and user feedback items.
Purposing a website is something often overlooked in today’s web design market. Just design it and make it work but in the end the owner rarely takes a look at the absolute focus of his/her site. Planning the strategy from home page to contact is extremely important. Spending time here helps to keep the budget in place and help scope creep. That and of course, the site does exactly what it should – create income or notoriety for the owners.
Wireframing, planning, designing and building professional web sites in PHP/CSS utilizing various aspects of Javascript and AJAX for a multitude of clients.