I build things that are simultaneous pretty and functional. If it’s visual, I do it. If it lives on the web, even better.

Other tasks like scripting, content management system setup , usability design, and information architecture are possible if the conditions allow for it. I’ve got a good head for what works well on the web and what doesn’t. I’m well versed in multiple templating languages for a variety of CMSes (WordPress, Joomla and Drupal being the most common) and have a good handle on usability design and information architecture planning.

Web Standards Compliance

My coding work is all W3c friendly. Web standards like XHTML and CSS ensure content will be available to the widest possible audience thanks to improved accesibility, support for mobile devices and continued access in even the oldest browsers

How Do I Work?

Most projects require a certain amount of custom process and back and forth that’s very difficult to plan out ahead of time. That said, a general outline of a typical design project might look something like this:

• Discovery and analysis – Learning about your company and product/service, figuring out the goals of the design project, and planning a set of deliverables.
• Proposal – From the discovery, generate a proposal to address your requirements. If you’re happy with it, we commit to working together.
• Initial Design – Taking what’s been learned in the previous steps and coming up with an initial set of mockups that addresses as many of those issues as possible.
• Feedback and refinement – A predetermined number of rounds where you provide feedback, I make revisions to the initial design, you provide more feedback, I review more, etc. Repeat until we’re all happy, or the predetermined rounds end, whichever come first. (And of course, in the latter instance, we’d talk about further work if it comes to that. Lucky for all of us, it rarely does.)
• Once the design is finalized, I build out the templates and depending on the project, implement them. There are normally further changes to the initial templates that require extra work (usually in the form of extra pages, or content styling). It’s common that we don’t have a clear picture of what all is needed at the beginning of the project, and closer to the end that becomes much more obvious.
• Final Pass – Once everything is “done”, we do a quick review to make sure it all looks and works the way it should.

But keep in mind that this is a more general guideline. Once started, most projects tend to dictate their own process. And that’s okay too.

How quickly does can I get it done?

A comfortable time frame is somewhere between one and three months from start to finish, and a month or two of lead time before kicking it off is always a good idea.

The words “tight timeline” usually mean I have to pass, but never say never. If your project is particularly attractive and I have an appropriately-sized opening in my schedule, things may be more flexible.