About me
Dear Rosi,
I studied Illustration and Computer Graphics at the London College of Communication where we were taught traditional illustration techniques alongside the current computer graphic software such as Photoshop, Illustrator and In-Design. Many of our projects involved combining these two skill sets, the old and the new, to great effect. This approach is something I have brought to my own work since, as well as the understanding that there is often more than approach to dealing with a brief. Frequently exploration and experimentation leads to richer and more exciting final art work.
Having also taken additional courses in Flash and Dreamweaver, I moved into the field of web-design, while working part-time in retail. I have designed sites for a range of clients over the last four years and always try to offer something original on the cluttered web. I look at the requirements of their business and produce sites that reflect most essentially the nature of what they do as well as attracting their potential target users through usable and clean interfaces and layouts. Accessibility is always a concern and my sites always degrade gently over older browsers and monitors to enable them to be functional to the broadest range of users. As well as providing for the past, I also look to the future of web-design and the latest technologies through trade publications and online forums.
In a previous role, in the food industry, I worked in a tight-knit team of four where excellent communication skills were essential. This was a client-facing job and involved talking with wholesalers, manufacturers and account-managers on a daily basis. My many years of retail experience have also made me skilled at dealing with customers on a face-to-face level.
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Yours sincerely,
Phil Abbey
Skills
AP.NET, css, HTML, javascript, jquery, mysql, Photoshop, php