Manchester Web Developers site

Hello and welcome to my site. I am Mike Thornley, a certified CIW Associate and Front End Web Developer from North Manchester. I am currently studying towards the CIW Website Design Management certification.

What it is I do..

Web Development primarily, including XHTML, DHTML, DOM, CSS, JavaScript and Perl. I focus quite heavily naturally, on W3C accessibility and standards, as a result I write clean, semantic code. I am also very interested in creating easily accessible sites, through Search Engine Optimisation techniques which I plan to study further. I will also include details of my current experience along with my certs as the site grows.

What work I want..

Ideally, I'm looking for a full time, permanent position as a front end Web Developer with an established company, whilst continuing my studies and I feel my expectations could be met with the right employer. Naturally, I am open to offers. I am intending however, once my studies are at a certain level to do some freelance work, creating bespoke sites in order to meet some of my course fees and expenses. I also have an interest in maybe assisting a charity for no fee with a site build (ex hosting and domain registration) or ongoing maintenance in order to gain some commercial experience. If you've an idea for a project and want collaboration don't hesitate to contact me to discuss it further. I could very well be interested.

Networking & Link exchanges..

I am also looking to network with other Developers and Designers in the Manchester area and especially, CIW students, at whatever stage of their studies they're at. I have also recently discovered and have a profile on, 'Northern Digital Creatives' through Meet-Up, a networking user group for all things tech & web related who meet reguarly in Manchester. I'd also be very interested in offers of link exchanges in order to maximise SEO efforts. You can also view and subscribe to my blog, using the drop down box to the right of this page and subscribe using the 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

Thanks for taking the time to read my page!. I will update the site when time permits, which currently is scarce. All the information you are likely to need, I'm confident will be contained within these pages.

This site is best viewed in my personal preference, Mozilla Firefox 3. You may also want to test (no message appears if not.) Javascript is enabled and if need be, enable it as well as disabling pop up blocking software in your browser in order to view updates I intend to make in the future.

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