About Me
Hi, my name is Gavin Taylor, a php developer based in Manchester, England.
I have been developing website's and wrinting scripts for a good few years now starting back when i was at school, through college and university and into my adult working life.
I've learnt many different web technologies along the way and several tools to use them. I was there when table layouts were cool and flashing gifs and construction signs were the way to go. As with any trade times change and so I regularly research new and upcoming technologies to ensure I keep up with the latest developments.
I have designed many websites over the years, as a freelance developer for friends, family and local business to large business websites in my current role as PHP Developer for a Manchester based hosting company. My sites are always built to the latest W3C standards and always with cross-browser compatibility and accessibility in mind.
I am experienced with several web design and developemnt tools, both open-source and commercial, that aid in the development of a project from graphics packages to design the look and feel of a site through to text editors to code the backend framework of the site.
As well as working on the front/back end of websites, recently I have also started learning how to setup/configure and maintain a webserver. I currently run two virtual servers, One running Plesk and one without so I can see the benifits of working with both types of solution.
Im compitant in the following programming lansuages and software packages;
Languages:
(x)HTML
CSS
PHP
JavaScript
AJAX
mySQL
postgreeSQL
Editing Software:
Photoshop
Fireworks
Dreamweaver
Komodo Edit/IDE
MySQL GUI Tools
PuTTy
WinSCP
Server-side Software
CentOS
Ubuntu
Plesk
Apache
MySQL
BIND
SpamDyke
For more details on the types of projects I have been involved in or if you would like to discuss a new project, then please contact me using the form on this website. If you would like to see some examples of the websites I have built or some sample code I have written please head over to my online protfolio.
Thanks for visiting and I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards
Gavin Taylor
a manchester based web developer