My name is Scott, I live in North London, I’m a Digital Consumer Strategist for a media planning agency, gadget freak, Star Wars nerd and a self-taught a web developer/designer.

Although I do enjoy getting involved in design work, I’m mainly interested in the coding side— making pages that work well is more important to me than making them look good. (I’m sure most people would rather see an ugly site than a pretty but broken or unusable one.) But my aim is to be able to do everything involved in designing, creating and selling websites, with the ultimate goal of running my own agency.

I’m a strong believer in web standards, so I make my sites using HTML with CSS to control the presentation. For the behind the scenes, server-side, techy stuff, I use PHP with MySQL. I’m still learning about Javascript, but as my main focus is on making accessible sites (particularly for use on as wide a range of devices as possible), mastering it isn’t yet a priority.

I’m also a fan of the open source philosophy of software development; I prefer to work in Linux where possible, although I’m still finding my way, so expect some blog entries about that too.

At some stage, I will probably start using Dreamweaver for the design- however, I want to know about how all the code actually works; I don’t want to find myself in a position where I need a particular application to build a site, and I’d rather be an expert in web coding than simply an expert at using Dreamweaver. So at the moment I’m doing all my coding in either Notepad++ (which I like because of it’s colour-coding style, and the way it can easily switch between language schemes) or Bluefish.

I’ve also been interested in photography since my wife and I bought ourselves a digital SLR camera last year, and I use Flickr to keep my photos; feel free to have a look.