When I start work on a project, I hold workshops with you to help me understand your organisation, and how a website or application can deliver you value. I work with you to understand what your organisation does, your point of difference, your competitors, and where you’re heading in the future.

Understanding your audience’s key needs, and the content and tasks required to support your organisation’s objectives, is the first step to me understanding your requirements and ensuring both your business
goals and your user’s needs are met.

An important first step in ensuring a projects success is defining a structure for the content and information delivered by the site, and planning for users to intuitively access content and interact with site functionality.

I uses wireframes to identify key content elements and base structure for each template, speeding up the design process by establishing what content the user expects to see on a screen and relative priorities before the full design is completed.

Where traditional graphic design focuses on aesthetics and visual look, Interface Design focuses on how a user interacts with an object or application, and how to make that interaction as simple and efficient as possible.

Interface design is a huge part of what I do, and I have a wide range of experience in designing effective User Interfaces across various mediums (such as websites, software applications, and touchscreen kiosks) that help my client’s audiences to achieve their goals.

Today’s modern websites are simple and visually appealing - from top to bottom, from front to back. The designs are fresh, the graphics are minimal and the backend code is clean. Most importantly, there is now technology that allows you to easily update your website on your own. No special skills. No fancy training. Just you, the program and your website.

The internet is a fast-changing place; rich content - such as video, audio, and animation - and highly functional web applications are now ubiquitous.

In the past I’ve built complex flash interactives, clever javascript-enhanced interfaces, and audio/video applications. I’m constantly keeping track of what’s happening on the Internet, and put lots of time into research & development and training.

The backbone of every website, XHTML (eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are the technologies that render your site in the browser.

I’m producing high quality code, following best practice and web standards, making sure the markup in your site is as flexible and interoperable as possible.

Development is where the beautiful, and beautifully coded, interfaces I design are given the technical heft to ensure that your objectives, and your users’ requirements, are met.

By offering a full design & development capability I’m able to deliver a site that will enable you to provide a quality service to your customers.

Almost all of the digital solutions I’hv developed are fully integrated with a Content Management System, allowing you to easily update, modify, and moderate your content. I use both my custom developed Dynamic Web CMS, and the powerful open-source Joomla CMS, both of which are built on the PHP platform.

I have also worked very closely with other development providers to integrate diverse content management platforms into my designs, including enterprise level solutions such Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS).

Blogs are on fire as companies have discovered the marketing value of these unique resources. Compared to traditional websites, blogs provide a more human take on your company. Plus they offer readers regularly updated information. That makes a blog a great forum for connecting with your customers, keeping them updated on changes and showing that you’re responsive to their needs.

I can provide fast, secure, and cost effective hosting of your site. My servers are located in high quality data centres, with daily backups, statistics, and analytics all part of the service.

If your organisation has its own in-house hosting service, I’m able to work closely with your IT team to ensure a smooth go-live, and make on-going maintenance easy.