I have been designing websites professionally since January 1995. At that time I was living in America and was fortunate to be there when the internet first exploded, which was a good year or two before it gained similar momentum in the UK.
Upon returning to the UK I took a job with ICL, working in their main web design studio in Bracknell. My main role there was working within the e-commerce department where I got to work on shops for NatWest, Interflora, Church's Shoes and Sega among others. While there I furthered my technical skills and learned a lot about the corporate side of the web design business. I stayed there for 18 months- my main reason for leaving being that I couldn't stand sitting in traffic on the worst part of the M25 every day or the idea of leaving my friends and family behind and moving to Berkshire.
After leaving ICL in 2000 I decided to try my hand working in a Freelance capacity, which is where I still am today, some seven years later. I enjoy the direct contact with my clients as well as the overall control to ensure that websites I create are delivered to a high standard and reasonable price.
For the last 5 years I have made an effort to use standards compliant code, which means that the underlying code behind my websites adhere to coding standards laid down by the governing body of the web: the W3C, wherever possible. This ensures that the websites will load on a wide range of computers and devices well into the future, and also makes them easier to edit, faster to load, more accessible to those with disabilities and easier for search engines to index and list sites.
Many people would like to be able to update their website themselves rather than relying on someone else to add pages or change some text. For these people I provide fully content managed websites, allowing the site owner to look after the content of the website. These sites can have many different special requirements, such as the publishing of news stories, image galleries and private areas of the website which are only open to company employees or those given access (intranet). All of these features and many more can be supplied as required.
I can also provide hosting for your website, email and any databases you may need for the running of your website. The first thing you'll need if you don't have it already, is a domain name. It's something that I can't provide, but you can purchase one from one of the UK's leading registration companies here:
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