Services

I plan, design and deliver great websites

Having been around the block a few times now I have a broad palette of experience to draw on when working on your site.

In the past I have done everything from visual design and coding to managing large commercial and public-sector sites. This means I can give you the kind of end to end attention that an agency can - at about one third of the cost. And as you'll be dealing directly with me all time communication is a lot easier.

Here's the list of things that I gave done to help people get the websites they want:

Visual design - what your site will look like

HTML/CSS code - the nuts and bolts of the site

Information Architecture - what your site is meant to be doing and what goes where

CMS deployment and configuration - making the site flexible and future proof

Drupal Design and Development (Read more on Drupal)

User testing - Using real users to assess your site

Analytics - (I am UBC/WAA qualified)

Content creation - Editing, rearranging, animating your message

Email campaigning - Engagement beyond the site

Search Engine Optimisation - how do people find you?

Project Management - Organising the project

You can read more about what I've been doing since going freelance in my Showcase

A quick turn-around project

Not all my work is end-to-end design and architecture projects.

Recently I helped a previous client by helping them take a plain html site and moving it to a Content Management System (CMS)

They didn't have much money to spend so I took a standard Immediacy CMS template site and tweaked it to fit their brand - then redid their Information Architecture, formatted all the pages, uploaded the content and got them going in 6 working days. They now have a serviceable site they can actually update themselves... job done, no fuss.

Drupal CMS

For organisations that require a CMS that will grow with them I recommend and use Drupal CMS. It's a free (open-source) industrial strength system that can provide a vast amount of functionality.

I have been working with Drupal for five years now, so know what modules and functionality is needed by most people. To minimise risk to organisations I use the Acquia distribution which allows organisations to buy inexpensive ongoing support for their sites.

Read more about Drupal and why you should use me to design your Drupal site for you