Simon Day

Current

Front End Designer at Reed Business Information

Past

Lead web designer at Ecotricity
Lead front end designer at npower
Web designer at Quadrate Digital Media

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Education

Mayfield School & College

Recommended

3 people have recommended Simon

Connections

36 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Simon Day’s Summary

Front end web designer with 11 years experience building XHTML and CSS for small to blue chip companies. I have 9 years experience working to W3C and WAI guidelines and I have a good number of WAI/W3C web sites in my portfolio.

The freelance sites I create have bounce rates between 10-20% and conversions between 1.5 to 1.8%. I have run PPC campaigns for 5 years and I have a good conversion rate. I use Google analytics, heat maps and extensive usability knowledge to create sites which allow me to control the user along a journey path of my choosing.

Simon Day’s Specialties:

XHTML, HTML, CSS, SEO, PPC, W3C, DDA, WAI and usability which are all combined into my excellent cross browser knowledge,

Simon Day’s Experience

Front End Designer

Reed Business Information

(Public Company; RUK; Publishing industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)

Front end designer tasked with creating and updating the CSS for various projects including Flight International.
Lead web designer

Ecotricity

(Privately Held; Utilities industry)

April 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 1 month)

In charge of all XHTML and CSS across the entire website and landing pages. I am also in charge of the SEO, Template building, html email building and working with the back end people to port my work into theirs.
Lead front end designer

npower

(Public Company; Utilities industry)

January 2007 — April 2008 (1 year 4 months)

I created all the XHTML and CSS for the homepages (home/home services/business) as well as most landing pages for national advertising. The pages were W3C compliant and I did a lof of template building for the CMS.
Web designer

Quadrate Digital Media

(Internet industry)

January 2005 — January 2007 (2 years 1 month)

I was the designer in charge of all accessibility issues relating to web development for the European Commission funded web sites. I was developing web sites for multi million Euro projects funded under the FP6 programme. I also worked closely with the database designer to build templates for his databases.

Another part of the role in the company was to be the face behind them. This involved travelling around Europe giving presentations to the project members on the work we have carried out. The people at these meetings are often the World leading experts in their fields.