Website Designer & Frontend Developer

User Experience (UX) Web Design

With web trends and technologies evolving rapidly, User Experience (UX) and how a user interacts with a website always remains a consistent focus.

To to remain current and competitive, online businesses will revisit their website goals on average every two years. A fresh direction or noticeable design change may seem longer for online based businesses as they’re consistently reviewed, tweaked and reassessed to be operating optimally.

A web UX designer will identify and review a websites goals then deliver a solution to meet those needs, ranging from small interactive elements to complete website redesigns. Read the rest of this entry »

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How Verify email with Google Apps when adding POP email accounts

When setting up Google Apps to receive other POP email accounts (as you might with gmail) you need to point your MX records to Google servers but then you need to Verify your email.  If you can’t access your new account, you should be able create “Catch-all address” via  your Google Apps / Settings to retrieve the Verification email to finish your set-up.

(Before doing any of these steps read this article first to see if it applies to you?)
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Website SEO basics

Some of the main considerations when optimising your website include Content, site structure / architecture and useful meta data but also using tools such as Google Analytics to monitor and improve performance for key conversion areas.

Primarily the content on your site is its most valuable asset, this is what your audience is hopefully searching for; it needs to be appealing and interesting not only to build recognition and encourage return visits but to build recommendations in the way of link backs, blog posts, emails etc.. Legitimate links to your website especially those from other reputable sources re-enforce your sites value to the Search Engines (SE’s).

Your website structure should be created logically for your users experience and interaction but  also to assist the SE’s indexing of your website to provide the best possible search results.
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Building an On-line shop with Magento E-commerce

Magento E-commerce, on-line shop designer developerMagento e-commerce allows to take or create your business and sell on-line professionally with ease, it allows you to maintain your own inventory and offers a rich set of cutting edge features to rival any on-line shopping cart system including product comparisons, add to wish-list, up-selling, special offers, analytics, shipping to multiple addresses, one page checkout, multiple payment options and great search features just skims the surface.

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Mayfield Park Mernda Website

This is a site I’ve recently launched on behalf of Metricon, Mayfield Park is a Metricon land development project located in Mernda Victoria.

Most other land development websites I researched were pretty terrible so challenging the current standard wasn’t hard.

The main brief was to compliment a brochure branded in house for the development.

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Metricon Homes web design & development

The new Metricon.com.au website has reached it’s best results to date with over 8000 hits daily making it Australia’s 2nd most visited building website.

Metricon Website

Out of a team of three, I was responsible for the website design and front end development (custom coding html & css from scratch using js & jquery) the site is not only optimised for greater search engine results it offers a streamlined user experience making researching new homes a breeze.
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Portfolio slideshow – selected works










For more detailed information go to my Portfolio

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What is open source software?

Open source web software is when a programs source code is made available to the general public to use and modify for free under certain licenses. Contributions that improve the product may often be added to the core program or made available in the form of add-ons or plug-ins.

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CSS Shorthand Guide – simplify your CSS using shorthand

Writing CSS using shorthand rules not only keeps your document smaller and more efficient it can save you time on coding.

This is done by using the simplified name of the properties group, followed by the group style values which need to be applied in the correct order to work across the various browsers.

There are five properties that can be shortened (margin and padding examples are included here as one)
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Google Analytics

Google analytics gives you the ability to easily track your web site traffic, it provides basic but powerful statistics about how well you’re content and site are performing, information is presented in a clear and easy to use format.

Anyone can get a free Google tracking account for their website/s; there are three simple steps to take:

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Andrew Brook

Web designer - abrook.com
I'm an interactive web designer with over 11 years experience designing clean, elegant, modern websites with a strong usability focus and I specialise in front end web development (HTML, CSS & jQuery).

I use the most up to date web trends and techniques, making sure my websites are Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) friendly, cross browser compatible and of the best quality.

My work covers all elements of the development cycle from conceptualisation to building and/or prototyping of a website, implementation, deployment and post launch support.

I'm based in Melbourne and generally provide my services off site from my own office, onsite, or both.

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