Creative Website Designers

Martin Woods

Martin Woods oversees all the projects carried out by the 1 Website Designer team; he has a thorough understanding of the needs of businesses and has 10 years experience as a web designer and SEO consultant.

Martin's role is to ensure that every web design fulfills your business's or organisation's objectives in terms of its design, functionality and SEO (appearing high with search engines), whether this is through a hands-on role or by co-ordinating the 1 Website Designer team.

Before moving into web design, Martin worked as an IT and business trainer and as a project manager.  He is also a wordsmith, he wrote the crosswords for The Big Issue for over 10 years and together with Allison co-created The Da Vinci Game.

Web Design Director

Allison Carmichael

Allison Carmichael is the co-founder of 1 Website Designer and the Art Director.  She ensures that the graphic design of each site is professional and attractive.  She has a very hands-on role and is a graphic designer herself, creating logos, illustrations, cartoons and more for websites to ensure that all sites have an original look and feel. She takes your ideas and concepts and makes them real.

With 25 Years experience in the Arts, Allison brings Fine Arts skill and panache to the field of Graphic Design, she coined the phrase 'Design Optimisation' to describe the power of the visuals in website design.

Illustrations by Allison are featured in two books, Martin Dawber's Big Book of Contemporary Illustration and, the totally hilarious self help book, And Anyway About Me by Tara Shillng. Allison has provided illustrations for magazines and websites and is the graphic designer responsible for the artwork on the board games The Da Vinci Game,Liar Liar and Eurobabble.

Art Director

Boycho Dobrev

Boycho Dobrev is a PHP website programmer with 8 years programming experience in PHP, MySQL, Javascript and the LAMP environment. He creates dynamic and powerful web applications and websites.

His focus is on creating user-friendly interfaces that convert data into well-presented, search engine optimised content.

Boycho is proficient in PDF creation and image processing.

Website Programmer

Petrica Baragan

Petrica Baragan has 5 years experience as a graphic designer and PHP web developer. He has an excellent understanding of Drupal web development, as well as Wordpress.  He co-ordinates the team on several of the larger web design projects and ensures that client objectives are met.

Petrica is comfortable using Adobe Photoshop, Abobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash and Corel Draw for his designs, developing sophisticated web applications with Aptana Studio, Eclipse or Adobe Dreamweaver or working in a version controlled environment using SVN. He has proven skills in web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ajax and MySQL.

Project Manager

Agnes Potier

Agnes Hababou Potier is a native French translator who translates English to French and French to English. Her translations preserve an author's ideas while maintaining the "beauty" of the text itself.

Agnes achieves this by creating a translation that is as close as possible to the original text, but has the necessary changes to adapt the text to a different culture.

Agnes also writes French SEO articles and French SEO content, to ensure pages appear high with search engines like google.fr, while reading well to your site's visitors.

French Translator

Regina Shafir-Brodsky

Regina Shafir-Brodsky is a talented Flash Animator, Graphic Designer and Digital Artist with 14 years experience in graphic design and over 6 years experience in computer game development and design.

Regina has an advanced level in using various 2D computer animation and video editing tools, a strong classical arts foundation, solid knowledge of computer design and user interface design. She thrives on the challenge of learning new skills and implementing new ideas.

Before moving into graphic design and from there into Flash Animation and interactive design, Regina gained an MA in Theater Design.
 

Flash Animator

Jane Heron

Jane Heron works in Project & Business Development for the 1 Website Designer team.  She has a degree in French and Drama and speaks fluent French and English.  She is also a trained teacher and has worked in educational theatre.  With her experience of teaching and also management in the retail sector, she ensures a seamless liaison between the English and French teams for bilingual projects for 1 Website Designer.

As well as working in Development, Jane also offers Drupal training for end-users, helping clients learn how to use all the features available in their Drupal content management system.

Business Development

Mihai Ghita

Mihai Ghita is a network administrator, IT consultant and Drupal web developer. He has previously worked in LAN / WAN planning and administration, developing mail solutions, securing and protecting data and developing backup procedures and disaster recovery plans for large clients.

Within web design Mihai specialises in implementing and configuring modules to achieve dynamic results, using the Drupal content management system, amongst others. His projects have included developing reporting tools using PHP and MySQL.

Drupal Web Developer

Claudia Ifrim

Claudia Ifrim is an experienced Drupal theme developer and website programmer, specialising in JavaScript and PHP, supported by a good knowledge of HTML and CSS.

Claudia has a thorough understanding of Drupal and the development routines required by the content management system, enabling her to implement many of the more technologically challenging solutions sometimes required for complex functionality within modules.

She is fluent in English and has a working knowledge of French.

Website Programmer

Liviu Dragulin

Liviu Dragulin is a Drupal web designer and theme developer, creating attractive website themes (the 'look and feel' of a website) in Photoshop and then converting these into Drupal themes.

Liviu has strong html, CSS and graphic design skills and works with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver.  He can also create themes for other websites, such as html sites, Wordpress and Joomla.  He takes pride in his work and pays great attention to the little details that have a large impact on the overall beauty and effectiveness of the finished design.

Drupal Web Designer

Stephen Banks

Stephen Banks is a graphic design graduate from the University of Wales, Newport. He has amassed a plethora of experience in the short time since finishing his degree and has completed a large range of print and web solutions, both inside university and out.

Stephen has three years experience as a website designer and graphic designer, mainly completing web projects for local companies, individuals and friends. He is experienced in Adobe Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Lightroom and enjoys digital and film photography in his spare time.

Stephen is also experienced in promotion via blogging and social networking sites, having set himself and others up with accounts to generate interest in a range of different businesses and socities.

Web Graphic Design

Marilena Beliciu

Marilena Beliciu is a Content Manager, organising and updating content on client's websites using HTML, Drupal and Wordpress.

When carrying out content writing, our Content Writers normally write the content in Word, we forward it to the client for their approval and Marilena then adds it to the website.  She is also available to check forums or other areas of a site that can be updated by the general public in order to ensure that no spam or unwanted comments are added to your site and also helps with link building campaigns.

Marilena has great organizational skills, pays attention to detail and is a fast learner with a team spirit.

Content Management

Samuel Muriithi

Samuel Muriithi has been writing articles, blogs and website content for the past 3 years. He creates rich and engaging content by combining pertinent research results with fine writing skills. He is well skilled in the use of keywords for SEO.

Samuel is also available as a versatile copywriter,  to write business plans and other content for offline promotional material.

SEO Content Writer

Stuart McMath

Stuart McMath is an IT consultant and Financial Website Developer with over 20 years experience in web design, development and testing, mostly within the banking, finance and leisure industries.

Stuart has worked with both large multi-national banks (such as the Bank of Scotland, Barclays Bank, Lloyds TSB and NatWest) as well as small consultancy groups.

His web development work includes e-commerce system design and development with credit card processing and programing in ASP, SQL Servers and JavaScript, as well as HTML and CSS.

Banking Web Developer

Daniel Clarke

With a history in writing promotional material, proof reading and teaching English, Daniel Clarke who is a Canadian citizen brings his fluent writing skills to the 1 Website Designer team.

Daniel is available to write both SEO content for websites and to write keyword rich SEO articles that are interesting, informative and 100% original.

SEO Content Writer