Manchester Web Developers site
Hello and welcome to my site. I am Mike Thornley, a Certified Web Developer from Bury, North Manchester. I have just recently finished studying towards the Specialist CIW (formerly the CIW Website Design Management) certification. I have achieved professional certifications in both Web Development and design areas.
I am a programmer with a rarity, the benefit of a personality. I am also a hand coder and as this is my
site, I have hand coded it with no use of any WSYWIG software.
What it is I do..
Web Development primarily, including standards compliant markup, XML, CSS, The DOM, JavaScript, & PHP coding.
I am also proficent in using the Adobe Creative Suite package, namely Dreamweaver, Flash & Fireworks for media creation. I focus quite heavily naturally on W3C usability, accessibility and standards and as a result write clean code and can build SEO compatable, lightweight web interfaces & apps. I am also very interested in Search Engine Optimisation techniques in order to create highly optimised content to increase and maintain site rank through organic measures.
I am currently focusing on adding to my ongoing skillset, in gaining back end knowledge, and focusing on PHP and MySql coding with a view to specialising.
What work I want..
Ideally, I'm looking for a full time, permanent position (intern type) as a Web Developer with an established company. Naturally, I am open to offers. I am not currently after freelance offers of work although wouldn't refuse to consider opportunities, projects and collaborations.
Networking & Link exchanges..
I am also looking to network with other Developers and Designers in the Manchester area, especially CIW students, at whatever stage of their studies they're at. I have a profile on 'Northern Digital Creatives' through Meet-Up, a networking user group for all things tech & web related, where digital creatives can meet regularly in Manchester at various venues. I also have a profile on forrst.com.
Keeping with SEO efforts, I'm very interested in offers of positive reciprocal link exchanges in order to maximise legitimate SEO efficency through, employing organic measures, in order to create smarter and relevant searches. I do not participate in buying or selling links, or any other link-spamming activity. You can subscribe to my blog and view my latest posts, using the drop down box to the right of this page, and subscribe to updates using the RSS link.
Feel free to IM me on any of the listed applications, contact me through my social networking profiles, or even drop me an e-mail - even just to say hello.
All the information you are likely to need, will be contained within these pages. This site is best viewed in my personal preference, Mozilla Firefox. You may also want to ensure Javascript is enabled in your browser as well as disabling any pop up blocking software in order for you to be able to view updates I intend to make in future development.
