Really pleased to have found out that a girl I knew has been freelancing as a website designer for a while and will be working with her as soon as possible to produce high class websites.
[Essex Web Designers] Firstly well done for getting web designer magazine to feature you! I get this magazine and was pleased to read your comment on facebook and couldn’t wait to get back home to see it. I started up Delicious Webdesign in 2007 and recently took over another company (the owner who I had done some work with had health problems) and have been busy since day 1, it seems we have a similar target market (business brochure sites for small / medium sized businesses) I have four people working with me on a freelance basis and between us with have a massive mix of skills that cover most the bases (xhtml / css, mysql / php, SEO, Flash, ecommerce, wordpress, Dreamweaver / Photoshop, logo design, ODBC with both Linux and Windows hosting )
Would be good if we can stay in touch and perhaps in the future we can help each other out as we are always busy and can handle most things but sometimes need an extra pair of hands and indeed it would be good if we can help you out sometime.
My personal niche is SEO and XHTML / CSS sites, looking at your site I was wondering why you don’t have a Google Page rank for your index page and why haven’t you done some technical SEO on it ? Perhaps this is something I can help you with in the future?
Really surprised and pleased that you are a website designer, I have been in IT most my life and worked for Cox Insurance and later CGI (in Brentwood) and then Cap Gemini and Morgan Stanley and have not met that many girls in IT and not met many that are good and looking at your portfolio I can see that you are well capable (I like that scrolling gallery you have done).
[Freelance Website Designer] I have been freelancing for over 6 years now after moving this way from Essex. I used to work for an ISP in Chelmsford called Hotchilli. Do you know any other website design companies based in Essex? Congratulations on starting your own web design company! It is really great doing something that you actually enjoy.
Are you on linkedIn? We should hook up there. Most of my work comes from local businesses and word of mouth recommendations (thankfully!).
I will keep a note of your business and should anything come up I will let you know and likewise please feel free to bear me in mind should you get an overload or someone’s off sick or on holiday and you need some help.