Manchester Web Developers site
Hello and welcome to my site. I am Mike Thornley (@mikedeveloper), a Certified Front-end Web Developer from Bury, North
Manchester. I am currently studying towards the Specialist CIW (formerly the CIW Website Design Management) certification. This site is entirely
hand coded with no use of any WSYWIG software. I have
currently achieved professional certifications in the CIW Associate, JavaScript
& Perl Specialist areas. I am now currently undertaking my final cert, which
is the Site Design Specialist. I am a programmer with the rarity of a
personality.
What it is I do..
Web Development primarily, including XHTML, HTML, CSS, XML, DOM, JavaScript, & Perl (including insight into OOP). I am also learning to be fairly proficent in using the Adobe Creative Suite package including, Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop & Fireworks for media creation. I focus quite heavily naturally on W3C usability, accessibility and standards, as a result I write clean, semantic code and can build SEO compatable, lightweight web interfaces & apps. I am also, very interested in and practice Search Engine Optimisation techniques to enhance search and indexing, which I plan to study further.
What work I want..
Ideally, I'm looking for a full time, permanent position (intern type) as a Front-end Web Developer with an established company, whilst continuing my studies. 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.
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.
I'm very interested in offers of positive link exchanges in order to maximise legitimate SEO efficency. 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.
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. You may also want to check Javascript is enabled and if need be, enable it as well as disabling any pop up blocking software in your browser in order for you to be able to view updates I intend to make in future development.
