Richard is a 21 year old front end developer from Manchester, living in Preston with his fiancée, and is currently looking for work. Richard first used HTML, PHP, and MySQL in 2002 when he became the adminitrator of an invision powered bulletin board. At this time he started installing modifications to the bulletin board and learning to code PHP.
From there, Richard went on to make small sites for friends with the help of an image designer. Splicing those images and using HTML with lots of tables he made sites for a band his friends in high school set up, a site for his ICT coursework, a fan site for a video game, and various other small sites which are no longer on the web, nor backed up anywhere.
In college he challenged himself by making an e-commerce site for his computing coursework, where the rest of the class used Microsoft Access to make form based systems. The site used very little CSS as Richard still had not used it much, however, the CSS was editable from an Admin Control Panel. The administrator was also able to add and remove items from the catalogue, manage members, and manage orders. Although Richard still has the files from this, it is not on the web as its security is very minimal.
The experience of making this system helped a lot however, as at the end of the first year of university, at Leeds Metropolitan, there was a group coursework to create an e-commerce system. Using the knowledge he had gained from college, Richard wrote the code for the catalogue system, and the administrator control panel, as well as helping out with the other parts of the system.
At the end of the second year of his Computing course, which he completed at the University of Central Lancashire, Richard did the PHP for a piece of coursework in Professional Skills, as well as auditing the HTML and CSS.
Most recently, Richard helped the Manchester 500 motorcycle organisation, who required a complete coding overhaul as site had previously been made in a web design package using the design view alone, and so it was impossible for the sites owners to do any updates on it. He updated the site to be up to web standards, using HTML and CSS, as well as integrating their wordpress blog into the site.
