I am a lead web designer, developer and blog author currently signed to Creare Communications Ltd. I have a First Class degree with Honours in BA Multimedia Computing. I specialise in custom Magento Commerce development and am an active member of the Magento community.
I build high quality, custom-built Magento websites. I am the owner and a frequent author of the Creare Magento Blog and creator of the Magento Fox.
I like to incorporate my ideas and understanding of e-commerce usability and marketability when integrating custom designs into Magento installations, with the ultimate goal of creating a self-sufficient selling machine.
I also write bespoke Magento extensions and modules. Recent releases include Optimised Contacts and Percentage Tier Pricing.
At university I studied HCI and usability in great depth, which is something I always endeavour to reflect in my website design. In particular I studied the methods and ideologies of Jakob Nielsen, and I am completely aware of the changing approach to UI perception. I have designed dozens of live websites which are commercially successful, and I am the designer and builder of Ecommerce Web Design.
Having been taught Python, Java & SQL at university, I wasn't fully prepared for the diverse, open-source nature of web coding, however I soon taught myself the following languages:
I can build solid, database-integrated solutions using PHP & MySQL. I have created custom CMS-based solutions from scratch and also have some experience with a couple of PHP frameworks.
I write custom JavaScript for a variety of applications in my website builds. I'm also a frequent user of the JQuery library when writing interactive, cross-browser JavaScript functions to make websites more interactive.
My experience with PHP and XML has enabled me to take advantage of writing educated AJAX calls, with both standard JavaScript coding and JQuery. I have also written AJAX scripts for both Magento and Wordpress.
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