Web Design

Whether you're a small or large business, a sole trader, or simply looking for a page about yourself, I can provide you with an attractive and usable website. I can give your existing website a new lease of life, or build one from the ground up.

Please view my online portfolio for examples of websites I have designed. Alternatively if you just need a PHP/MySQL script installing, please continue reading below.

PHP/MySQL Coding and Script Installation

PHP is a powerful scripting language, allowing for dynamic web pages and easily updatable content. There are many uses for PHP. Some of them simple, some of them highly complex.
Some basic uses could be for hit counters, guestbooks and polls. More complex things range from image galleries, forums and content management systems (CMS). As well as writing my own scripts, I'm also able to install many scripts available on the web.

I have experience with the following forum software, and can install modifications for any of the following:

Invision Power Board - (and other scripts from Invision Power)
vBulletin
phpBB
YaBB SE
SMF

Examples of other types of scripts I've installed include content management systems, photo galleries, blogs, wikis, file download systems... just drop me a line let me know how I can be of assistance, for a small fee I can install virtually any PHP/MySQL script on the web.

Search Engine Optimisation

S.E.O stands for Search Engine Optimisation. It basically involves making a website more 'search engine friendly', with the ultimate goal of getting your site listed higher within search results, thus generating more traffic for your website.

There are many methods and techniques used to do this, I use the following techniques when designing and coding websites:

Accurate, informative page titles
Titles which contain important keywords related to the content on the page.

Keywords in filename's
www.yourdomain.com/page1.html OR www.yourdomain.com/photographs.html? - The latter is more descriptive - it's clear that the page has something to do with photographs.

Keyword rich content
I am careful not to over-saturate pages with too many keywords that the point of the page isn't conveyed well. I optimise the content to contain the right balance of keywords.

"URL Rewriting"
Possibly the most complex method to SEO. It involves converting URL's like www.yourdomain.com/news.php?id=1354&category=latest, to something that looks nicer, and is easier to read, such as www.yourdomain.com/news/latest/1354/title_of_news_article_here/, the latter URL also provides keywords for search engines to pick up. However, this method can only be implemented if your website is running on an Apache web server with "mod_rewrite" enabled.