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My philosophy is a no-nonsense approach which consists of:

Simple solutions for simple requirements

I have seen various examples in the past (especially in big, established companies) where it seems to take forever to get a relative simple task done. Even the simplest change on a website is responded to with lengthy initial reports, and estimate of 1 to 2 full days coding and on top of this at least half a day testing!
Although I understand the importance of proper documentation and processes where necessary, I have encountered many occasions where the responsible IT department (in-house or outsourced) seemed too have lost all sense with reality. Example...

Programmers need to be able to understand the end users' needs

I have come to various situations where programmers simply failed to deliver a 100% solution, because they are not able step into the shoes of the end user - they think too much in code rather than the solution. Therefore I believe in programmers who have done "normal office work" as they have a better understanding of the end user's needs. Example...

 

Example: Bureaucracy... a true story!

There was this intranet site with a Flash introduction animation. (Any introduction is seen as bad practise on the internet, on an intranet it should be avoided at all costs).
Of course many users were highly irritated by this unnecessary barrier to their source of information. One smart brain suggested a checkbox on the first page, simply to tick for "do not show introduction at start up".
This job would take a skilled developer a couple of hours at the most, however, their in-house IT department responded with a 6 pages A4 document. The preparations would take 2 days, the actual coding 3 days. It would take another day to test. As a gesture of goodwill, they would only bill £1000,- for their service...
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All web pages hand coded

Hand coding gives 100% control over the layout. Drag and drop editors also produce a lot of unnessecary code, which results in longer download times.

You design, I code

Are you looking for assistance with your project?
I specialize in
- MS Access
- SQL server
- ASP / VBScript
- ASP.Net (C# / VB.NET)
- HTML
- JavaScript
- CSS
- DHTML
- MySQL / PHP
and you will find that it's easy to work with someone who likes to put the dots on the i!

Internet Explorer 6.0 is not the only browser!

Therefore we test all webpages in IE 5 upwards, and in Netscape (Mozilla and Opera).