About this site
I’ve been making websites professionally since 2001 and personally
since 2004.
Having become immersed in the world of the web at work, it became
a huge interest at home.
I received a Distinction in the Level 3 ‘Diploma in Web Design’
from The Association of Certified IT Professionals in 2005, and
have since been working on a number of my own web projects.
In my professional life my team and I won a Webby
Award in the 'Communities section' during 2006, an award won
by Flickr the year after.
In October 2009, my team and I won a Silver in the Communities
section of the W³
Awards, this time for our work on the Cumbrian
osprey project.
In my personal life it's proved much harder to replicate that success
and build a popular, high-performing website.
I’ve moved from basic HTML, Dreamweaver and Photoshop sites to
using PHP to develop more complex database driven websites.
I've built more than 10 commercial websites in the past couple
of years, including the partner blog to this website called website-academy.com
but none has worked so well for me since I discovered Site Build
It! by chance in 2008.
I've used the company's web tools to build this website and already
it's out-performing all of my other sites, including my blog.
When building my other websites, I had no problem getting hold of
a cheap hosting package and building the sites myself, but when it
came to generating web traffic, that was another thing altogether!
It was easy enough making websites, but building websites that
get enough traffic was a huge problem.
I stumbled across Site Build It! by accident and thought it was
a 'Get Rich Quick' scam at first.
The more I read, and the more I checked out independent reviews,
the more I became intrigued.
It gives me all the web building tools that I've used professionally,
and all the 'best practice' tips I've learned personally, in one
package.
It's also suitable for complete beginners or web professionals -
you can either use the step-by-step site builder or upload pages
from your favourite software, like Dreamweaver or Frontpage.
I started with the site builder while I was getting used to the
new system, but now I'm making web pages for this site in Dreamweaver.
If you have any queries about how the site has been put together
using Site
Build It! please don't hesitate to contact
me.
If you'd like to find out about the resources and research I have
done to write my articles, I have produced a 'Site
resources' page with all the details you'll need.
I hope you enjoy this website and find lots of useful information
in it and I’d love it if you contributed, passed it on and shared
your own knowledge and experience.
Disclaimer
All views expressed in this website are personal opinion.
They represent the views of the writer only.
No warranties or other guarantees will be offered as to the quality
of the opinions or anything else offered here.
Copyright
All personal content in this blog is my copyright.
Please contact
me if you'd like to reproduce any of the articles as I'll usually
be happy with this if a) you run a responsible website b) you credit
me.
Use of images from this website
Most of the images used on this website have been purchased from
Stockxpert.com, Dreamstime.com or downloaded for free at stock.xchng.com.
The rest are my own pictures or screen grabs.
You are encouraged to check with me first before using images from
this site as you may find that you are in violation of the original
photographer's rights if you use them for your own purposes.
Mistakes, corrections and errors
Nobody’s perfect and despite my best intentions, I might get things
wrong some of the time.
If you spot an error, please get
in touch and I’ll put it right if necessary.
Accessibility
Websites are covered by Part 3 of the DDA relating to the provision
of goods, facilities and services.
All website owners are required to make 'reasonable adjustments'
to ensure that it is reasonably easy for disabled people to make
use of their website.
The guidelines within the W3C
Website Accessibility Initiative (WAI) are widely accepted as
the starting point for assessing accessibility.
Where possible we use alt tags to maximise the utility of screen
reading devices.
We generally use black text on a white background to make our content
easily readable.
You can alter the text size by clicking on 'View' > 'Text Size'
in your browser, then selecting the size of text you prefer.
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