About me and my services – Simon Barnett

In Brief

My Offering

Design

Develop

Tools

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.

I've recently teamed-up in an exciting new venture called Silicon Mountain.

Here's my CV / resumé.

I live and work in Cape Town, South Africa.

Please feel free to get in touch with me via the contact page, or via the new project walkthrough.

My Offering

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

In addition to design and development, I am often involved in 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.

If needed. at the end I give a little training and provide a custom-written guide for your new website. I actively maintain a manual for my clients, here.

Design

Develop

I build light-but-sturdy, fast, and easy-to-use websites.

In terms of the bulk of what I do, in short, either I design and build, or you design, I build.

I work from a thorough specification to a finished product at a pixel-perfect standard.

By concentrating on a specific range, my skill set achieves a more polished finished product.

I am able to offer extended services through the Silicon Mountain collective. Check it out!

Tools

I build most of my websites using the self-hosted version of WordPress (wordpress.org) on a fast, sturdy, “blank canvas” framework theme.

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

I make use of the clean, fast Beaver Builder range of tools. I carefully build it into your website, and use it to build the layout templates which you will use to populate your web pages.

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