WELCOME
A (sometimes dangerous) combination of poor television programming and too much time on my hands led me to teach myself how to build websites. That was back around 1999, and I've spent only limited time in front of the TV since.
By day I work a regular job like most people, but by night I create websites. I design and develop sites for individuals and businesses that are used to tell a story, supply information, and even sell products and services. I don't create just any websites, I aim to create websites that are appealing, useful, and above all user-friendly.
A user-friendly website must be just that, and not require a detailed instruction manual for its visitors. If a website is intended to be informational, it must follow a layout that allows "content to be king". If a website is intended to sell something, it must place the product up front and allow shoppers to marvel in its glory. Most importantly a website must make visitors:
- want to stay;
- want to read on; and
- want to return.
This is what I like to see in a website, so this is exactly what I strive for when I create sites for my customers.
MY SITES
Websites that I develop do their jobs simply and effectively, without fuss. I, on the other hand, do all of the fussing during development to ensure:
- The site is not ugly or frustrating for visitors through animation or graphics over-kill;
- Coding complies with web development standards set out by the W3C World Wide Web Consortium, ensuring consistent presentation across different web browsers and mobile devices;
- Pages are not slow to load through over-sized images or bloated coding;
- The site looks and works the way that YOU want it to.
I only consider a website to be complete when it has met all of these requirements, and it has passed thorough testing in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera, Apple Safari and Konqueror (Linux) browsers.
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FEATURES
Features readily available for inclusion in one of my websites include:
Google Analytics Dashboard
- Your text and photographic content, as supplied by you;
- Images edited and customised to suit;
- Picture galleries to display products or other items, including pop-up windows;
- Online shopping carts and connection to PayPal or a credit card gateway for secure purchases;
- Contact forms, protecting your e-mail inbox from spam;
- Hidden statistical hit counters, to show you details of visits to your site;
- Detailed reports analysing site visitors, using Google Analytics;
- XML sitemap, to assist your site listing with Google;
- Multi-level menus as needed;
- Embedding of objects such as YouTube videos and streaming audio.
I can also guide and assist you with the purchase of a domain name and web hosting, if required.
Please follow the links in the left-hand menu to view samples of my work or to contact me to discuss your web design requirements.
I look forward to being of service to you.
Cheers,
