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- Professional & technical skills
- Training and qualifications
- Other skills
- Educational qualifications
- Voluntary work
If your client asks about blogs
One of the questions I've been getting from clients lately is if I think they should have a blog. My answer always depends upon several things including:
How much time do...
Why Do Designers Hate Blackberries?
ColorBurned asks the question: Why Do Designers Hate Blackberries? And I wonder it myself. The iPhone came out and it seemed like everyone had one (at least in my circles)...
Poll: Do you use an editorial calendar in your Web design work?
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Last week, I wrote a short post about editorial calendars and asked how you use editorial calendars. And go no response at all. Is that because you don't know what...
SEO Reports - Keyword phrases are important
Ironically, keywords are important for SEO. I say ironically, because most people assume that means the tag and leave it at that. But search engines stopped using...
Photoshop for the iPhone?
Thanks to Designer Daily for pointing out this hilarious video about a "new" product - Photoshop for the iPhone. Wouldn't you want your Photoshop to call you with the error...
Web Editor Reviews - 4 new Reviews
What's great about this list is that I learned about 2 new Web editors I'd not heard of before - WeBuilder and XSite Pro.
XSite Pro version 2
by Terry
"I switched...
Are you a sucky designer?
I saw this post on The Web Squeeze last week and I had to laugh, I love the title Are you a sucky designer? Most people would, I'm sure, answer...
If you're not reading these design blogs, you should be
Marco Folio posted a list of the most popular Design blogs out there and these are definitely some of the best of the best. If you're not reading these sites,...
SEO promises are often too good to be true
If you search the Web you can find hundreds, if not thousands, of SEO companies making sweeping promises about what their services will provide: "#1 on Google", "top ranking in...
News items sourced from the about.com web design/html website
See webwatch:news for web developers and designers for more news & tips for webmasters.
I am a qualified and experienced web designer with hand-coding skills as well as experience of industry-standard web design software packages. I also have experience of computer network management and general IT consultation and support, including operating systems, office productivity and multimedia software.
Professional & technical skills
- Website development and management using packages including Dreamweaver, Homesite, TopStyle, XMLSpy.
- Graphic design using packages including Fireworks, Photoshop.
- Scripting & programming languages include HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP, SQL, XML and XSLT.
- All-round experience in website management, hosting and domain name registration.
- Experience of building, implementing and training in the use of Content Management Systems.
- Project management skills including the use of project management and mind-mapping software.
- Presentation and staff training skills.
- Highly-develped customer service and teamworking skills.
- Official beta tester for Microsoft Office XP and 2003, and for Philips hardware.
- Music production and digital audio recording & editing using Cubase & Soundforge.
- Experience of corporate branding of Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers.
Training & qualifications
- Currently studying for an Edexcel Professional Diploma in Management Studies
- Adobe Certified Professional: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Developer
Certification obtained February 2003 - view list of certified developers - Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer on Windows 2000
Certiification obtained February 2003 - Microsoft Certified Database Administrator on SQL Server 2000
Certiification obtained February 2003 - Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator on Windows 2000
Certification obtained July 2002
Other skills
- Fluent in both Welsh and English.
- Basic knowledge of French.
- Certification in British Sign Language at Level 1.
- Full UK driving licence and own car.
Educational qualifications
- 1998 - MA Music (with technology)
- 1996 - BA(Hons) Music/Popular Music
- 1992 - A-levels in English (B) and Music (C)
- 1990 - 10 GCSEs in
- English Language (A)
- English Literature (A)
- Welsh Language (A)
- Welsh Literature (A)
- Maths (A)
- History (A)
- Music (A)
- French (B)
- Chemistry (B)
- Biology (C)
Voluntary work
- 1995 - News anchor & DJ duties for Royal 945 AM, Royal Liverpool University Hospital
- 1995/6 - Running community music projects including Gog Rock and Sgrechian EP
- 1997 - Sexual health promotion & outreach, MESMAC North Wales
- 1997/8 - Web designer, Bangor University Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Society
- 2001 - present - Web designer for the National Trust's Quarry Bank Mill
- 2002 - Results operator, XVII Commonwealth Games, Manchester 2002
- 2005 - current: registered user of IT4Communities project
- 2006 - trustee of the Lesbian & Gay Foundation, a board representative on the charity's Performance Management Working Group and a volunteer on their IT Working Group.