Other: Web Skills

Well designed sites are accessible, searchable and user-oriented. YenWorks designs are simple to use, easy to navigate and help the user find the information and products quickly. Navigability and functionality come before artistic excellence. It is no use making your site a masterpiece of art if users cannot navigate around it or it takes too long to load up, especially if some of your potential customers are on dial up. Also, on the technical side, the web site must be searchable through search engine optimization for natural linking or purchased ranking.

Below are a few of my professional skills:

Design:
  • Serious magic with Photoshop in manipulating photos.
  • Typography, Photo Manipulations & Re-touch, Color Correction, Product Photography, Email, Banner Ads, Business Cards, Logos, Letter head.
  • Prototype & mock-ups for testing.
Technical:
  • Hand-code Table-base HTML, CSS & inline-CSS.
  • Photoshop CS3 Adobe Certify Expert (ACE).
  • Dreamweaver, WYSIWYG, UltraEdit, text editor.
  • Javascript, FTP, MsOffice.
  • Familiar with Illustrator, Unix and Flash.
  • Comfortable with either Mac OS/Windows environments.
  • Designed with ASP server-side includes.
  • Incorporated designs with AJAX in mind.
  • Designed with Dynamic Database Content Management.
  • Understand cross-platform and browser compatibility issues.
  • Visual Source Save: to check files in/out to prevent over-writing other's work.
  • Multi-variant A/B split testing: to study the habits of the targeted audience so we could better cater to their informational wants before making a purchasing decision.
  • Quality assurance: involves testing how the project look on different browsers, platforms, monitors, computers, mobile devices, etc.
Expertise:
  • Design, maintain and modify simultaneous B2C, B2B, corporate web sites and web projects.
  • Project life-cycle from start to finish: which means I don't quit until your site is up, running and producing results.
  • Branding, Direct Marketing.
  • Search engine optimization (SEO): so people can find your site.
  • Image optimization: which are especially important in cases of ads and email newsletters that has file size limits.
  • Call to Action graphic placement: knowing this has been a difference of $100k sales or lost of it.
  • Work in a fast-pace, agency like environment.
  • Strategic planning and implementing.
    • Site structure: such as wire frame, site navigation, user interaction, and page content layout.
    • Online marketing campaign: includes sale pitch, banners, banner placements, e-mail newsletters & subject lines, search engine placement, other web media ads, etc.
People:
  • Self-motivated, goal-oriented, passionate about web design.: It is my hobby for 15 years.
  • Juggle multiple projects and websites during different phases of design.
  • Created a project request form to streamline workflow and sign-offs.
  • My work are results driven and design secondary.: Every element of the site should change regularly to encourage new and repeat customers to purchase, as well as develop a feeling of ownership by those involve in creating the site. This is done through testing and monitoring click-throughs.

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