Designing The News

Well the end of university life is getting near, and not having long until I graduate I decided I best start scouring out some more permanent job prospects. I’m a designer who is self motivated, inquisitive, and analytical, with a love of all things design, and I’d love to work for a creative company who have almost an obsession for creating top notch work.

Location

I’ll take anywhere! I’ve been living in Manchester UK all my life and as green and as pleasant these lands are, I’d have no problem travelling across the world for a career. Plus, travel has the added benefits of culture and experience that I can really get stuck into.

Experience

Over the past 2 years, I’ve been pretty successful in balancing a number of freelance projects of various scales with other commitments. I’ve helped people set up their businesses, consulted on SEO, usability, and web standards, offered advice on branding and logo design, and set-up and dismantled backend web technologies on a pretty much day to day basis.

I have limited experience of working in a studio environment, but personable, willing, and able to converse and communicate easily with others.

Main Skills

• Graphics: Advanced knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator, with intermediate level experience using Quark and the use of InDesign.
• Web languages: Advanced knowledge of semantic (X)HTML, CSS, usability, accessibility, intermediate level SEO techniques, and a focus towards making projects web standards compiant. Experience using some of the JavaScript libraries such as Scriptaculous, jQuery, and MooTools, with some knowledge of writing PHP, Smarty, and JavaScript, and management of mySQL databases.
• Web software: Advanced knowledge of Wordpress, of using Wordpress as a CMS, Lightweight CMS, Drupal, Joomla, Pligg, b2, ZenCart, and custom built CMS’s, with experience of implementing Microformats into existing websites.

If you’re interested and you’d like to know more then get in touch. Thanks.