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
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- initial investigation of resources and environmental constraints
- briefing (creative, technical, content requirements)
- Solution definition
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- recommendations (creative and technical)
- working with designers/writers/photographers/developers
- information architecture
- prototype user testing
- Project specification
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- project specification documentation
- Content management
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- story-boarding
- asset management
- Design and construction
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- 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
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- creation of documents that follow WCAG 2.0
- hand-over documentation (guidelines and style guides)
- Maintenance and training
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- site and content maintenance
- Review and evaluation
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- project review
- site performance analysis: traffic information