Freelance Web Programming
- Not getting what you want from your website?
- Fed up of paying through the nose for bad service?
- Need a reliable and portable database for clients / products?
- Feel like you are going round in circles?
I can help! Over the last few months I have heard more and more tales of woe from Directors and Sole traders complaining that they have spent thousands of pounds on a web site / product database or shopping cart only to be let down. My work ethic is simple, I work closely with and listen to you. I want you to be happy with what you have paid for! I work freelance so i have more time to spend with clients getting a good idea of what they require. So if you are one of the many people out there suffering at the hands of bad programmers and designers give me a call and together we can work out a solution to your problem!
I am currently available for any freelance web programming work in cgi, perl or PHP. I am, by trade, a freelance web programmer of perl, PHP, MySQL and site conversions ( converting badly coded sites into valid XHTML or HTML). Please see the respective pages for further info. My long term experience in the web industry gives me enough experience to furnish your company with a bespoke online back office system or other web based application be it a shopping cart, product database, content management system (CMS) or a simple news posting system.
Services
- Payment Provider Integration (Example)
- Bespoke Web Programming (Example)
- Out of the box products(see here)
- Site conversion to XHTML / Valid HTML
- Mail forms, News Posters, Blog Scripts and many others
E-Commerce
Online Shops are becoming one of the premier uses of the internet, with existing businesses or companies expanding into the internet sector. It is a great vehicle for making extra money for your company and has the advantage of being open 24 hours, 7 days a week and reaching a worldwide audience. I can provide an E-commerce package for less than £500 that will have you selling on the internet with a week of project start. Please see the portfolio page for examples of more complex sites.
Valid HTML or XHTML 1.0, 2.0(strict)
HTML standards were developed to make it easy to share and process electronic documents regardless of the type of device, computer platform or operating system used. Using valid HTML is the first step to creating accessible pages. Valid HTML pages are pages that adhere to a set of rules defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Why build web sites using valid markup?
- Today's browsers largely support HTML standards; both Netscape and Explorer have committed themselves to supporting the W3C standards.
- According to The Web Standards Project, supporting incompatible browsers adds an average 25 percent to site budgets.
- invalid markup affects document portability, interoperability, and the future value of your content .
- When developing sites using CSS, invalid HTML, like overlapping tags and unclosed elements, will produce unpredictable results.
- Standards based web sites are likely to be more accessible. If you are focusing on making your pages work on just one specific browser, you may be locking out surfers with special technologies, or alternative browsers.
- Most current and past browsers will try to interpret invalid HTML, but there is no assurance that next generation browsers will be as forgiving. Organizations risk making their documents obsolete by not ensuring that their web documents adhere to the HTML specification.
- By working to the HTML specification you make it easier to transport HTML documents to others for revision and re-purposing.
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
There is one simple way to deal with search engine optimisation, so many companies promise this and promise that; i dont promise anything. I will however point out the most simple thing so many people seem to miss. If you have a site that sells carrots, you site needs to be all about carrots!!!
The above links shows the results of the SEO performed on this site, as you can see this site appears near the top of the listings on a UK search and still quite close on a worldwide search. This is thanks to a well laid out page, valid XHTML markup and a constantly updated site.
