Web Developer Skills

Joomla

7+ years experience building multi-user and multilingual sites. Writing bespoke modules and components. Theming Joomla sites exactly to designs handed to me, to work across all major browsers. Setting up and configuring component based and bridged forums. Experience of Mambo, Joomla 1.0.x and Joomla 1.5.x.

XHTML/CSS

Several years' experience hand coding standards-compliant (X)HTML and CSS (1 and 2). Site usability and information architecture. Producing sites to WAI guidelines. Cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility. Table-less design. SEO techniques. JavaScript/Cross-browser DOM scripting.

PHP/MYSQL

Several years' experience writing functional and object-orientated coding and MVC based architecture. Database design principles. Complex and efficient SQL. Bespoke and/or modified applications.

Platforms

Windows, Apache. LAMP environment.

Other skills

Working closely with colleagues, both in-house and remotely. Liaising directly with clients. Leading team members in specific areas of development. Proactive self-learner.