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Company Overview:

Successful experience in web design and development

Freelance web development services - Expertise in user interface design, and user experience. Making your website clear and intuitive to use so visitors can find what they're looking for quicker and more efficiently.

Making your web site stand above your competitors - Building web sites that get ranked by the major search engines. Using ethical search engine optimisation techniques.

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Jim Callender is a adaptable, fast-learning and co-operative freelancer, with a strong passion for the web. His skills are in web development.

Living in Brighton, and working throughout the South-East on a variety of projects for small to medium size businesses. Also contracting for a number of independent web agencies. Generally, either working with individuals on a freelance basis or larger clients on fixed term contracts.

Skills and experience include:

* Standards Compliant HTML/xHTML
* CSS
* XML
* JavaScript/DOM
* ASP
* Microformats
* Ruby on Rails
* Accessibility and usability best practice
* Public blogger
* Adobe programs
* Subversioning
* APIs, web services, developer network design - toolkits and libraries

Portfolio

* Please see the portfolio page for full listing on web sites - http://www.jayonline.co.uk/portfolio.htm
* www.royalmailgroup.com - The Royal Mail Group plc
* www.timesonline.co.uk - Times Online (2007 redesign)
* www.travelbag.co.uk - Travelbag (2007 redesign)

I've worked for various charities, government agencies and publishing firms. Producing work for clients of international renown in the commercial sector.

I class myself as a web developer, because this combines both designing and coding, created to high standards using current W3C and Accesibility standards. Ensuring that the website and any applications work correctly on the latest browser versions, as well as mobile technology such as PDA's and mobile phones.

I do most of my work on an Apple Macbook. I often hotdesk at clients offices where they have desktop pc's or I use my laptop. Both are flexible enough to fulfill most projects. I like to use open source programs which allow me to be more in control than WYSIWYG editors.

I prefer to hand code as it gives more control over your code, and it makes it more quicker to fix bugs or add extra features to a page. Giving greater speed and greater control of the web pages. Its also an excellent way to learn if you are just starting out.

I enjoy dealing with the initial project setup meeting to the final launch of the website. Building standard compliant websites is not only challenging, its also very satisfying to create something that will last longer than the backward compatible 'table' formatted site.

Future Activity

Mobile web, web design, user experience, interactive design

Member Contacts

• Mr  Jim Callender
  Job: Freelance Web Developer
  Telephone: 01273 806 672
  Email: info@jayonline.co.uk