Web Designer, South Lakeland 

My Journey

I've been around for a while now and I have a lot of experience. I live near Ulverston in South Lakeland, at the southern edge of the Cumbrian Lake District. My clients come from near and afar, throughout the UK and Europe.

I built my first commercial website in 2001 after completing a course in Dreamweaver web design. My tutor recommended me for the job.

At the time I was mainly working, freelance but virtually full time, as a graphic designer for a holiday company in Lancaster where I designed all their brochures, publicity and advertising.

From there I went to work full time for Iomart Internet in Lancaster as a full time web designer.

In 2006 I relaunched my business with the focus on web design. I was also working part time for a local IT company managing a number of high end retail fashion websites.

I also started a course with the Open University in Web Applications & Development, which I completed in 2010.

Earlier Work Experience

This includes technical publishing, mainly working on the layout for language translations of technical manuals. I also freelanced for a local college producing course materials and did the cover design, illustrations and typesetting for a number of published books.

Before this I worked at a major UK Arts Centre in the Marketing Department.

Qualifications, courses and training:
  • Certificate in Web Applications & Development (Open University, 2010)
  • Artistic Uses of Digital Imaging (Lancaster University - short course with commendation, 2004)
  • Web Design using Dreamweaver (Dallam School, Milnthorpe, 2001)
  • Introduction to Web Design (Dallam School, Milnthorpe, 2000)
  • Editorial Skills Certificate (Chapterhourse Publishing, 1993)
  • Foundation Art & Design (Lancaster & Morecambe college - part-time/incomplete, 1996)
  • BA Hons 2:1 French & Modern Greek (Combined Honours, 1986)
Skills set and proficiencies:
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Joomla CMS
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Dreamweaver
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Microsoft Word
  • Keyboard skills
  • Logo design
  • Proof reading
  • Copy editing
  • Foreign languages - French & Modern Greek
  • On site search engine optimisation

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