Welcome to Heggers
Well its finally here. After many false starts, I've now got the site up and running. I am a web designer and developer living and working in London. And this being London, there is always plenty for me to do to distract me from doing more design work, but I've made the conscious effort to get creative again, and this site is the proof to all you doubters out there...
I've been doing this stuff for 7 years professionally now and 3 years learning it all before that, so I'm a decade into this internet malarkey. I have worked in dot com start ups (back in 2000 when it was all the rage), large, market leading portal sites (when portals were the thing to do), a big law firm in the city, and for the last 5 years, a big publishing and internet solutions company specializing in the education market, and now incorporating community, user generated content driven sites.
I design and hand-code sites in XHTML and CSS to the latest accessibility and web standards, and over the last few years have become a bit of an expert in making sure our sites try to meet the highest possible accessibility ratings and cross-browser and platform compatibility.
I have 7+ years experience using the market leading tools such Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks, Allaire Homesite (now Macromedia, so soon to be dropped by Adobe no doubt) and have used Dreamweaver but prefer to hand code as it means I can produce much cleaner and concise code. I also work with JavaScript and have previously done work using DHTML, Macromedia Director, Adobe Premiere and some VRML (Virtual Reality Modelling Language). In my current job I also work with Oracle databases and Java Struts, and can write PL/SQL.
Anyway enough of that, have a look round the site and there will be more detail on what I've done and examples of my designs and sites I've worked on. As well as a section about me, because... well... I'm vain like that. There will be no pictures of me cuddling pets or any of that though - this is not 1997, and that is not what the internet is for!
Enjoy...
Heggers.