welcome
Hello and welcome to my online portfolio.
Here you’ll find a selection of my work (the important stuff), my development playground (coming soon), a way to contact and follow me via social networks and my blog (coming soon).
about me
The short story: I’m a talented freelance front end web developer and designer, a “creative developer” is what I call myself, who’s based in London. I’m always looking to push my clients work to the next level and I love using new technology – with graceful degradation for older web browsers of course.
Click here for the longer story…
Where did it all begin?
I was heavily influenced by my fathers career in media and his interest in computers. I found my self bringing the two together as I grew up and loved learning how ‘machine code’ could create graphics as well as audio. I went through short episodes in life where I was DJ’ing and creating short stop animation videos as well as manipulating images in Adobe Photoshop. I then chose to study Multimedia at Nottingham Trent University. For the three years I covered all things ‘multimedia’ (photography, audio, animation and web) but I decided to spend two of the three years focused on “the web” as it focused on how to code as well as design – I felt I found what I wanted to do for fun as well as a career!
Where am I now?
I’m now a freelance creative developer as well as a young consultant in London. I work for my own clients as well as contracting within agencies and companies, be they big, small, established or start ups via my Ltd company: Scripted Pixels.
What I do and where it started:
When I graduated I started off working for a young agency outside of London doing simple design and development – HTML4/CSS2 to W3C standards. This opened the doors to the world of ‘handling real life clients’ and managing projects from start-to-finish. I gained invaluable insight in how to manage a project, the client and understand the planning and time it would take to complete projects.
As I progressed through my career in and into London I worked my way from a a permanent ‘junior web developer’ at Foxtons to a ‘mid-weight freelance Creative Developer’ working for various agencies and companies.
Throughout my career I’ve worked on various projects with different technologies, such as:
- e-mail campaigns
- flash banners
- flash games
- website translations
- HTML/CSS template builds (ready for content management system (CMS) integration)
- twitter widgets
- animations in Scriptaculous
- AJAX
- PHP
- Responsive web design and development (RWD)
- HTML 4 & 5
- CSS 2 & 3
- Wire-framing
- Version control (eclipse and Git)
- XML / JSON
- JavaScript – hand coded and libraries
With the experience of using the above and from working with various companies (listed here); I now focus on making websites accessible to everyone – this means building sites that work across multiple devices. This is classed as responsive web design and for me it’s ensuring the most important content of any site is available for everyone no matter what device they are using.
If you have a project that needs to be designed and built or if you need some extra help please feel free to contact me via the contact form at the bottom of this page or, alternatively, send me an email: kam@scriptedpixels.co.uk.
