I’ve been a web developer for around ten years, during which time I’ve had two web development books published and become a long-standing beta tester for Adobe. As a full–on geek, I’m passionate about web standards to the point that I lose sleep agonising over markup. Despite that, I also have a life and spend my spare time going to gigs, taking photos and cooking vegetarian meals, as my Flickr account will confirm.
To date, my career can be divided up into the following chunks:
- Freelance Web Developer [current position]
- The Eye Fund [charity work]
- Fawthrop McLanders: Digital Media
- Trig.com (Adocca Entertainment AB)
- Conker Media (Mersey TV)
- Friends of ED (Apress)
- Freelance Web Developer
Freelance Web Developer [current position]
Web Developer: Gateshead, England
As of March 2010, I’m back to being a full–time freelance Web Developer.
Skills used: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, & Fireworks.
The Eye Fund [charity work]
Web Developer: Stockton-on-Tees, England
Writing and maintaining standards-compliant HTML & CSS; integrating and skinning WordPress into a custom-built PHP & MySQL site
Skills used: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Photoshop & Fireworks and copywriting.
Linkage: http://eyefund.info/
Fawthrop McLanders: Digital Media
Front-End Web Developer: Newcastle, England
Writing and maintaining standards-compliant HTML & CSS as the front-end to a custom-built ASP.NET CMS.
Skills used: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET/C# (basics), Photoshop & Fireworks.
Linkage:
- Fawthrop McLanders,
- The Summit for North East Local Government 2010,
- The Class Awards North East,
- JC Atkinson – Coffin and Casket Makers,
- Your Packaging Partner,
- Sun Brand Technologies,
- Rustoleum Spray Paints,
- Ecolibrium – Eco-friendly, natural paints & woodcare,
- Durham Diocese Board of Education,
- MeMeMe Accessories,
- Activities Abroad,
- Villa Chile Tres,
- Galleon Houseboats ,
- Helen Whitaker
Trig.com (Adocca Entertainment AB)
Web Developer: Stockholm, Sweden
My time there was spent mainly as a front-end developer, writing and maintaining standards-compliant HTML & CSS, but also included copywriting (I wrote the FAQ, Help, and Using Trig pages), public relations, and marketing. This involved anything from being the official press release voice of Trig, through to liaising closely with bands such as Lostprophets and Funeral For A Friend to help give them the look they need and fine tune the site to musicians needs.
Linkage used: HTML, CSS, Ruby on Rails, Photoshop & Fireworks, and copywriting
Links: http://trig.com/lostprophets, http://trig.com/funeralforafriend, http://trig.com/using_trig
Conker Media (Mersey TV)
Web Developer: Liverpool, England
Writing and maintaining standards-compliant HTML & CSS and creating graphics, Flash games and TV adverts for the following sites: Hollyoaks, Grange Hill, Channel 4, Mersey TV
Skills used: HTML, CSS, Photoshop & Fireworks, Flash, JavaScript.
Linkage: Due to the constantly changing nature of these sites, none of my work is online these days.
Friends of ED (Apress)
Author and Technical Reviewer: Liverpool, England
I’ve had two books published by Friends of ED, but as Technical reviewer, I reviewed drafts of books and web pages, suggesting amendments where necessary.
- Author of Foundation Mac OS X Web Development.
- Co-author and concept behind Blog Design Solutions.
- Technical reviewer of Foundation ColdFusion for Flash and Foundation Dreamweaver MX.
Skills used: HTML, CSS, ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop & Fireworks, and a touch of copywriting.
Freelance
Web Developer: Liverpool, England
Musicians I’ve done work for in the last ten years: Rico, Radiator, Therapy?, Andy Rourke (ex-Smiths), Kant, Leon, Miriam Lamen, Alexandra Scott, Red Delicious, Lunarclick.
Linkage: None of this work is online these days, due to bands breaking up and/or moving on.