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Web Designer and Developer Gavin Stewart

GDKS Web Design

About GDKS.co.uk

I gratuated from University in 2007 with a degree of BSc Computing with First Class Honours. I am currently working as a web developer for a web design company in Angus, Scotland.

My career goal is to gain experience in the web design and development industry. I want to expand my current knowledge of web standards, usability and accessibility and continue to work effectively with current and future development technologies.

Knowledge and Experience

CMSs and Shopping Carts

WordPress, Joomla, osCommerce, Zen Cart

Standards Compliance

Creating usable and accessible websites with valid xhtml and css layouts

Search Engine Optimisation

Improving the search engine rankings of websites through on-page and off-page optimisation

Frameworks

Javascript - Prototype
PHP - CakePHP

Programming Experience

Client-side Web Development

(X)HTML and CSS, JavaScript, WML

eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

Web Services, XSL, DTD, XML Schema

Server-side Web Development

PHP, ASP, ColdFusion

Databases

MySQL, SQLServer, Oracle

Desktop Development

Java, C#, VB.net

Toolkit

Notepad++, Visual Studio 2005, JCreator, NetBeans IDE

XAMPP Development Server

GIMP, Adobe Fireworks CS3

Internet Explorer 6+7, Opera, Firefox, Safari