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I have almost twenty years of experience in design and marketing, in the voluntary sector as well as the private sector, which has given me a solid base of old-fashioned design and layout knowledge.
I am an experienced copy-writer. I have written everything from brochures to manuals. I am also a published novelist and journalist.
I have been active as a website design consultant since 2003, working mainly with small and medium sized businesses and with charitable organisations, advising them on their approach to offering services on-line, and suggesting more cost-effective solutions.
I became involved in the Internet in 1996, and my first website went up in 1998. I moved from marketing and information services to full-time web design and development work in 1999, employed first by the International Petroleum Exchange, a derivatives market based in the City of London, then moved to Knight Frank, the international estate agency. Most recently, I worked with the Office of the e-Envoy, the Cabinet Office responsible for centralised government information.
My technical skills cover hand-coding HTML, CSS, AND javascript, and in using Dreamweaver, GoLive, FrontPage, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and other web editing and imaging software.
If you need research, I can do that to: I have three degrees in history, the last one being a D.Phil. from Oxford University. A rigorous training in research techniques carries through into any area: the standards I learned then I still use now.