The Creative Dot - Design | Animate | Excite

skills & experience

summary

• I have eight (8) years professional experience in the designing of websites and print media.
• My primary focus is on Web Design and Front-end Web Development with the occassional faure into Back-end Development.
• I Design and Develop websites from Concept to Completion, including post production site maintenance, except for any Back-end Development work.
  
  

Professional Experience

Web / Graphic Designer and Front-end Developer

August 2006 - Present

• Take a Design Brief and create website concepts for clients on a project by project basis.
• Create CSS and (X)HTML Standards compliant websites from the Concept Design.
• Include any Dynamic interaction e.g. JavaScript, DHTML, jQuery, and Adobe Flash.
• Create Themes for DotNetNuke Websites and BlogEngine.Net.
• Convert Concept Designs into ASP.Net Master Pages and Themes as well as ASP 3.0.
• Email Newsletter Concept creation according to client specifications as well as conversion to HTML and CSS, to be sent out with a mailing system.
• Design logos, brochures, business cards, etc. to clients specifications.

Freelance Web Designer and Front-end Developer

January 2003 - July 2006

• Create websites for clients on a project by project basis.
• Convert the concept designs to valid standards compliant CSS and (X)HTML.
• Design brochures for clients.

web Developer

May 2005 - November 2005

• Create websites for clients according to there specifications.
• Using (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP, Access Databases, and ODBC Connections, to create basic Content Management Systems (CMS).

Web Designer

January 2004 - March 2004

• Design website for Garden Centre.
• Convert the Design to (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Create leaflets for interesting info about gardening.

Web Designer and Front-end Developer

January 2002 - December 2003

• Create a website for a hobby shop with a searchable and self maintainable database.
• Designed the layout and user interface for the website.
• Converted the design to HTML, CSS, ASP 3.0 and Access Database.
• Created a backend to maintain the database with ease of use.

Education

• Diploma in Information Technology from Tygerberg College
  December 2002