Hello there

Hello there, I am Chris Tate-Davies, and I am a web developer, based in Oxfordshire. If you think your business needs a new site, or even its first online presence, then feel free to contact me.

I will make it easy for you to understand what needs doing. I don't charge the earth, you can chat informally with me before you make any decisions.

I have an extremely wide range of skills including (but not limited to):

• PHP
• JavaScript
• AJAX
• HTML
• MySQL
• MVC Frameworks, such as Zend Framework
• JavaScript Frameworks, such as JQuery

Everyone knows that the nice, pretty side to a website is what is important to the customer, and therefore the client. This requires a creative side, coupled with skills that include HTML5, JavaScript and CSS.

Back in 1997 I started off as a Visual Basic developer, and this language, albeit old, taught me about modular programming, and the basis behind Object Orientated Programming, or OOP.

I believe firmly that there is no need to repeat programming, it slows down development, and increases the chances of errors in the code.

If you have an existing site built using a CMS, and you just want it tidying up, that's also no problem. I can update Wordpress, Joomla, and most of the other popular CMS.

In order to create a web application, you'll need some sort of database. I am very experienced in the very popular MySQL database; administration and database design.

I can come in and make your data safe, by installing and configuring a replication server and giving you peace of mind, When your server hard drive becomes faulty, how up-to-date is your backup? With replication, it will be almost certainly "up to the minute accurate".

Please feel free to have a look at my online portfolio. Some work is unavailable for viewing as they are closed intranet systems, but the following are live:

Steve Stanton wanted his website finished. It was started using Joomla as the engine, so to keep costs down, I finished it without starting from scratch.

My local pub, The Sun, needed an online presence. I quickly wrote them a site using Zend Framework. The reason was to leave it open for any e-commerce bolt ons that they might want to utilise in the future. And they required an admin section so they could upload their own menus, etc.

Tom Saxton wanted a website built to advertise his mouldings company. It had to adhere to extremely strict design guidelines, as it needed to fit in with one of his major suppliers.