Freelance experience

I prefer to work within a team and therefore I have been freelancing for high-level design agencies in London. It allows me to brain–storm with like–minded colleagues and further develop my skills. Currently I have been developing my knowledge of ASPX/.net.

SAS Design – Front End Developer
5 months

I was responsible for the front end development primarily of these sites and landing pages:

  • BBA Aviation
  • Savills
  • BP

While at SAS I have helped with the template build for the new Savills website and am heading the web build of the new BBA Aviation website. I have also worked on projects such as Slaughters and May, KPMG, Ernst and Young Spring Campaign and BP in updating and creating XHTML, XML and CSS layouts.

 
 

Reactive Media – Web Developer
1 month

I was responsible for the design of inner page layout, front–end development and content entry of this site:

  • Tesco Magazine - Online edition

During my time with Reactive I completed the new development for the Tesco Magazine issue November – December 2009.

 
 

AKQA – Web Developer
1 month

At AKQA I helped with the content entry for several complex XML pages, created and managed assets for a large flash based website.

 
 
 

accessibility

As a developer, the concept of accessibility helps me consider all audiences and improve and understand coding standards. Semantically–meaningful HTML is ruled by an information hierarchy within a developers code, assisting the comprehension of page elements in all formats and providing easy to use functionality for all users. Accessible websites can be used by screen readers, Braille terminals, screen magnification and speech recognition software and keyboard overlays to help people of all abilities understand its content.

All my websites feature accessibility options, such as scrolling text, descriptive alternative (alt) tags for images, style separated from content and semantic code.

You can zoom into websites and increase font sizes, simply hold down Ctrl and press minus (−) to zoom out or press plus (+) to zoom in you can also use the toggles below.

Standard Text Size

Large Text Size

Below is a toggle to heighten the contrast levels of this site for people who have poor sight.

Standard Contrast

High Contrast

You can also turn off the cascading styles sheets (CSS) to only read the HTML information by selecting the ‘View’ menu within your broswer, navigate to ‘Page Style’ and selecting ‘No Style’.