About me
I am a professional web designer and front end developer based in the Redfield area of Bristol.
I started out as a junior web designer in 2002 for a small business to business internet service provider in Mansfield. I spent three years there and was responsible for web design, front end development, search engine optimisation (SEO), technical support, domain management, customer relationship management and content management. I was also responsible for maintaining the traffic analysis system, search engine submissions, two web servers and an email server. I built a wide range of e-commerce websites from estate agents and Car Dealerships to Marketing agencies, fine art dealers, department stores and designer furniture retailers.
in 2005 I moved on to Empower Inc. I was responsible for web design, front end development, SEO and marketing specialising in websites for charities and non-profit organisations. Most of the websites I built where accessible, W3C compliant XHTML and CSS. My time was spent approximately 30% design, 50% development, 10% SEO and 10% marketing and tech-support. I worked for large, professional social enterprises and charities including the British Youth Council, the British Council for School Environments (formerly School Works), Greenwich Leisure and CO3.
In 2006 I moved to Arcadia Group where I worked as a front end developer in a team with six other web developers. This job was very specific compared with my previous roles and helped me to develop my XHTML and CSS coding. The brands owned by Arcadia Group all use the same XHTML templates with the designs differentiated solely by the CSS in the same way as CSS Zen Garden. I single handedly built the CSS for Evans when they moved in-house and worked on daily updates and rich media emails for all the other retail brands. The brands where Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Wallis and Burton.
I took the role of senior web designer at figleaves.com in late 2007 in order to develop my design skills. My main responsibility was for the design of on-line collateral with some coding as well as some design for offline material such as leaflets and inserts. My objectives whilst at figleaves.com were to increase the basic interaction between the customer and the website and improve the quality, accessibility and efficiency of the front end website code.
I then worked for Trinity Mirror within the regional digital department as web designer. My three main projects at Trinity Mirror were the rebrand and redevelopment of the GUI of Zoomf.co.uk a property search engine and the design and building of website login areas for businesses/agents for LocalMole.co.uk and Zoomf.co.uk. I also worked on a design upgrade to the localMole.co.uk business directory website, to turn a basic template based site into a more extensively branded design more in keeping with the brand guidelines. I also contributed in a number of ways to the recent roll out of a new design for the larger regional newspaper’s websites owned by Trinity Mirror in particular with CSS bug fixing and browser testing.
I moved to the Redfield area of Bristol at the beginning of October 2009. I am now self employed and work mostly as a freelancce web designer and web developer for local design and digital agencies based within Bristol, Bath and the surrounding areas of Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. Read about why I moved to Bristol
If you are looking for a freelance web designer who is as passionate about good quality code as she is about user-focused design then contact me by email: