My name is Dan Cunningham and I’m a Professional Web Developer & Designer from Doncaster, UK.
I’ve been studing web design and web development since 1998 at the early age of 14 years old. As you can tell the web has change alot since then, so with most of my spare time I tend to enjoy working and researching web design further and continuously dive into anything remotely related to this field. I’m also a bit of a tech freak and love to read, buy & play with gadgets, computer related hardware and anything that draws me in.
This blog is, in short, about web/graphic design, everything IT releated inlcduing computer gaming, web applications, and of course anything else I find interesting.
Job History
I left College in 2003 after 2 years of studing Graphic Design, I found that I wasn’t using all my skills in just working in the general Graphic Design environment. Although my skills are good at doing print based Graphic Design work I wanted to push myself into a more of an expert role. So having already passed my National Diploma I left college and a month later, I got offered a job at Indigo Online as a Web Designer & IT Support Tech, I felt there was no need for me to stay on at college and having always been told that the best experience is a real experience and what better opportunity than a web design job!
For 2 years with Indigo Online I built websites, maintained websites, configured servers and took control of our client base for Indigo’s IT solutions that we had to offer. As well as doing all this, I did alot of work in running Indigo’s websites and sister companies that we had started and in doing this I was later offered a senior position after a year with Indigo and continued to work as a supervisor for Indigo Online.
I decided to leave Indigo Online in the month of febuary 2006 to join the ecommerce web team at Miller Brothers A well established online and high street retailer.
In the early months of being with Miller Brothers they unfortunalty went into Administration and the company got bought out by a new and well formed management team that now stands as the newly upcoming Limited company known as Miller Brothers Retail Limited.
I was in the eCommere Web team at Miller Brothers for over 3 years and it was such a great working environment. Working along site the other designers and development team is really what I definately wanted to get from the company and because of that I was constantly learning new techniques as well as bringing my own skills to the team. Using HTML/XHTML, CSS Skill along with Notepad and Photoshop as my main tools in my roll I find that I have found my feet and thats why I enjoyed it.
At Miller Brothers I constantly worked on and maintained a few other sites and projects e.g www.qed-uk.com, www.asda-electricals.co.uk, www.asda-direct.co.uk, ASDA Kiosk Project, and web sites for a few other well known high bluechip street brands such as Lloyds TSB and EDF Energy. My roll at Miller Brothers started as a Web Designer and ended as a Team Leader.
Currently though I’m working at Nineten New Media Ltd in Doncaster as their Lead Web Designer and PHP Developer. I’ve been at Nineten since March 2009 and the role itself is great especially with the clients the Nineten have and the size of the company being quite small it’s a great way to have direct input into all the project in the studio.
Outside of work I am a freelance web designer. Baiscally doing the same work that I do throughout the day. I also run alot of sites for myself some of which are full blown websites and other are small blogs for friends and family by doing this I get alot of awesome people contacting me and I really enjoy talking about sujects that can help my development for my full time profession.
Contacting me
Don’t hesitate to contact me, I try to read all of my e-mails, but I can get a little bumped down with them alot of the time. Sometimes that can be the case and it may take me a while to reply but I should get around to you in the end.
About this site
- From back to front, this site is built on WordPress.
- Under the hood you’ll find hand-crafted XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS
- I use sIFR Font replacement methods for the headings.
- Whilst keeping things to web standards, I’ve tried to keep this site clean and simple & I feel I have achived that but sometimes it tends to look a little text heavy in places
Facts & links
- You’ll find my photos at Flickr
- I’m a member of the 9rules Network
- The reason for this site is to help myself and others with the knowledge which I find and use on a day to day basis. So its my own personal libary for all to use!