About me
I've been a professional web developer since 2002 and was heavily involved with Out of the Trees (OOTT) up until around April of 2007. Since the birth of my son Jack in May 2007 however, I've been a full-time freelancer whilst retaining a part-time interest in OOTT.
My experience is very broad ranging including:
- accessibility & coding to WAI / AAA standards
- bespoke content management systems
- e-commerce
- web services & XML
- image manipulation
- system integration
- data migration
- etc
I work full-time on a Mac out of choice but can PC-it at a push ;)
My full C.V. is available here
About this site
This site is built on the CodeIgniter MVC framework and uses a combination of JQuery and home-rolled javascript for effects & AJAX-ey goodness.
For all of the PHP type stuff I use Zend Studio. I've recently 'upgraded' to the Eclipse based version & franky it's a huge step backwards. I've still not been able to bring myself to pay money for such an early beta standard product - it's actually version 1 :(
The design work, graphics & logo are all my work (no, I'm not a designer...). For some reason I decided to throw off the Photoshop shackles and did the whole lot in Fireworks. And really enjoyed the process - there's a lot to be said for vector based graphics.
If you're on a Mac (or using a really decent web browser) you'll be seeing nice drop-shadows on some of the headings; if not then I've deliberately left them off to punish you. Consider yourself told.
