What I Do
I can help you take your business online.
I specialise in creating responsive custom-built websites, that means they look good on a desktop or mobile. A professionally designed website will help define your brand. Careful design will help to attract customers by driving Google traffic to the site. In the first instance, I offer a free and informal chat to see how we can work together. I can offer guidance on branding, marketing, styling and content.
You will be able to follow the website development online. I use WordPress as the content management system which makes it easy to edit post launch.
Please get in touch if you’d like to find out more.
Responsive Design
My websites are responsive and mobile-friendly, so they work across all screen sizes from smartphones to desktops.
Websites are prepared with my knowledge of writing for the web, awareness of legal issues and understanding of W3C standards of usability and accessibility. I build them to be standards’ compliant with user-friendliness in mind.
Front-end Development
During development I take responsibility for testing, bug fixing and troubleshooting. I use Photoshop for preparation of photos and graphics and Premiere Elements to edit video.
I have strong hand-coding skills in CSS & HTML, as well as a basic understanding of PHP and JavaScript.
SEO Optimisation
A website needs to appeal to both humans and computers. I prepare content with search engines as well as your clients in mind, with careful use of key words and phrases.
This means editing images to maximise their impact, keeping code clean to ensure fast loading pages. All these factors influence a website’s chances of a favourable position with Google.
After Launch
Search engines, such as Google look for websites with interesting and informative content. Google values new content and this shows in the ranking.
I’m happy to manage maintenance on your behalf, either for one off edits or regular updates if you don’t want to bother with the technical challenge!
A brief step by step video tutorial may be helpful, for example how to add links and images, as well as how to edit text. Please ask about a maintenance tutorial video.
