About me and my services – Simon Barnett

In Brief

My Offering

Design

Build

Develop

In Brief

I'm Simon, a freelance web / UX / UI designer and front end developer.

I design custom websites, or build them to a supplied design.

Here's my CV / resumé.

I live and work in Cape Town, South Africa.

Please feel free to get in touch with me.

My Offering

I design and / or build websites, providing a service that is best suited to organisations, agencies and individuals.

This starts with the initial requirements specification and information structuring phases of a project.

I often motivate, initiate, and manage the task management systems during a build phase.

Work is carried out at a pixel-perfect standard.

If needed. at the end I give training and provide a custom-written guide for new websites. I actively maintain a manual for my clients.

Design

I have an obsession with information and a skill for finding, organising, and presenting it in ways that visitors to your website can understand, navigate, and find aesthetically pleasing.

With 16 years of experience, visitors to your website built using my good hands will instantly know they've landed in your good hands.

Extended services are available through the Silicon Mountain collective. Check it out!

Build

Using your or my design, I build light-but-sturdy, fast, and easy-to-use websites.

I build most of my websites using the self-hosted version of WordPress (wordpress.org) using a single fast, sturdy, “blank canvas” framework theme. This ensures customisability and longevity of websites, amongst many other benefits.

I make use of the excellent Beaver Builder range of tools. I carefully build their legendary page builder into the design of the website. This allows clients and content managers to quickly lay out pages and edit content on the front end of the website.

Develop

Depending on requirements, I code functions and templates, make use of quality WordPress plugins, and sometimes create my own, or modify existing plugins.

Lately I've been up-skilling to Vue.js, which is the bee's knees.

Languages and Software

HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript / JQuery, Vue.js, WordPress, Beaver Builder, Genesis Framework, Dynamik Website Builder, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign