Brent Dayman

Developer/Designer

About

Hi, my name is Brent Dayman. I'm currently a Senior Front-End Developer at bwired, in Melbourne, Australia.

Originally from a print design background - my passion for technology led me to web and multimedia design. During this time I have covered all the work stages of a wide variety of projects including the following.

Project clarification
  • initial investigation of resources and environmental constraints
  • briefing (creative, technical, content requirements)
Solution definition
  • recommendations (creative and technical)
  • working with designers/writers/photographers/developers
  • information architecture
  • prototype user testing
Project specification
  • project specification documentation
Content management
  • story-boarding
  • asset management
Design and construction
  • streamlining workflow between designers and developers, developing best work practice procedures
  • creative design, including interface design
  • construction using HTML (including HTML5), CSS (including CSS3), JavaScript (JQuery), MySQL, PHP, and Flash
  • adherence to web standards (HTML for content and semantic document structure, CSS controls layout and presentation, JavaScript controls behaviour)
  • CMS integration (Komodo CMS, CentricMinds, Expression Engine and DotNetNuke)
  • blog software integration (WordPress and Tumblr)
  • forum software integration (phpBB)
  • Email marketing design and construction (MailChimp, Vision 6)
Testing, launch and hand-over
  • creation of documents that follow WCAG 2.0
  • hand-over documentation (guidelines and style guides)
Maintenance and training
  • site and content maintenance
Review and evaluation
  • project review
  • site performance analysis: traffic information