| Name: | Ed Everett |
| Location: | London |
| Degree: | Fine Art (Painting) |
| Work: | Web designer for Ymogen |
I work as a web designer. But I but I like to get involved with anything to do with making things look nice and work well.
People seem to have different ideas as to what a web designer actually does but in my case I work as a mixture of graphic designer and front end web developer. I take the design of a website right through from understanding the what the clients want to creating original graphic designs and wire-frames and on to hand coding the (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript for the website front end and/or interfaces. I don’t mess with server-side programming or databases unless I’m desperate, but interfaces, usability, accessibility and prettiness are all my thing.
I currently work as a Web Designer and Front End Developer at Ymogen. Before that I worked for ActiveIS from February 2006 until December 2007.
This site is my personal site so in making it I’ve made some choices that I wouldn’t recommend to my clients:
True to the old cliché, I’m being my own worst client and changing my mind about how this site should look every five minutes. So I’ve had to give up on the idea of creating the perfect site for myself, and just publish it in the state it’s in. There is so much that I’d like to get done, so much that needs changing, but I’ve got to set myself a deadline and get it over with. From now on the site will evolve and improve incrementally as I make small changes to the live site.
IE6 is out of date and full of bugs. Now that IE7 has been released I now longer feel that this site needs to work perfectly in IE6. It’ll hopefully degrade usable but I won’t be testing in old browsers. Life is to short (unless I’m being paid) and I want to be using and learning some of the new techniques available to with modern browsers.
* as far as practical and I have time for…