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Accessibility Consultancy & Search Engine Services in Hastings

Published: June 16, 2005

After years of contracting my services to local businesses and organisations I have finally had some time to put a front to my business. The aim is to provide all the experience I have in the internet and bring it to the small businesses of Hastings, Bexhill and the Rother District.

What I won't be doing, on a small scale anyway, is website design. I will fit into the planning and organisational area of the project, something that often breeds the biggest mistakes.

I have already started to wrap some products and services and look to offer my services as an extension to existing web design agencies.

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If you check the site out, it's a WordPress system using the Connections theme. I did ponder whether to go down the custom route but I'm aiming to promote these kind of tools to small businesses. If they can see a professional website and then realise that actually, it's free to download WordPress, cheap to get some PHP hosting and easy to operate then more people will get online.

If you're in the web design business and looking to outsource your search engine promotion services or run a website that isn't working for you, get in touch.

I also am happy to present plans, be a guest speaker and generally assist marketing departments gain a greater understanding of what the World Wide Web can offer any business.

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Clive Walker says:

You may remember, we exchanged comments on tables-based design a while ago. Good luck with your new consulting business. I am not looking to outsource any work at present, but if you think we can collaborate, I'd be happy to consider it. By the way, we have just revamped our main website www.cvwdesign.co.uk with a non-tables-based layout. PS Nice WordPress theme.

Ed says:

Why thank you sir.

I had noticed your new design a while back as I floated around the internet.

My background is OO programming, database design, system architecture and interface (usability / accessibility). As I became self-employed, quite a few years ago now, the web was a direction client demand forced upon me.

The first thing I learned was ASP without any fundamental understanding of HTML. What turned the web around for me wasn't ASP or PHP, but Java and .Net because of the application-like integration.

Realising the potential, I have virtually completely ditched offline applications for web services, intra/extranets, ecommerce etc., and the interface aspect of my previous line of work lends well to the standards laid out by the W3 and their missions. What intruiges me is the sheer diversity of the web, not like a Win32 app.

Currently, my services are aimed at 2006 and beyond as I'm currently in a 2 year Government and EU funded project offering advice to local businesses (official title is Ecommerce and Internet Consultant). It's a fantastic contract as I get to raise awareness in business of the standards that websites should adhere to, which in turn will force local designers to deliver.

I've managed to get one book written which is about optimising a website for the search engines, a full time job in itself, and I'm possibly looking into website accessibility as a potential too. I've just turned 32 years old and am still looking for a little direction in my career. I'm leaning towards consultancy, teaching and authoring instead of actually coding anymore but I'll always keep a hand in code as it's got me where I am now and I still really enjoy it.

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