Profile – Richard Monk
I am a Notting Hill, west London based graphic designer and front end developer. By day I work full time as a graphic designer at JustGiving, the UK’s biggest online charity fundraising platform. It’s nice there. I have over 4.5 years in-studio and freelance experience across both profit making and non-profit sectors.
My passion is for all things creative in the world of web and print – ultimately, I live to see projects communicate successfully and be enjoyed by people all over the country. This starts at the conceptual idea generation process and ends when my client holds their finished product, or visits their finished website.
You might also find me scoring triple 20′s in your local darts pub or dancing at the local UK Garage club.
Core Skill Set:
- Adobe Illustrator (CS4)
- Adobe Photoshop (CS4)
- Adobe InDesign (CS4)
- Hand Coded CSS / XHTML
- Specialism in HTML email (tables based, inline CSS)
- Good understanding of WordPress (CMS)
- Good understanding of Joomla (CMS)
- Good understanding of W3C standards for accessibility online
- Good understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and testing online
- Good understanding of PDF preparation to send projects to print
- Good understanding of the principles of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Additional Skill Set
- Basic PHP / MySQL development knowledge
- Basic Adobe Flash
- Extensis Suitcase
- Good understanding of Social Media Marketing
- Basic understanding of the principles of Adwords / Pay Per Click (PPC)
- Basic understanding of jQuery AJAX library
- Basic understanding of Microsoft Project
- Standard MS Office Applications
- Excellent English writing ability
- Confident across Mac & PC environments
