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I am an English website designer in Bangkok.

I work with clients in Asia, Europe and the USA. One of my designs has been published; many others have featured in articles and web design galleries. Every website I make is unique: I never use templates; artwork is custom designed in Photoshop; and photography is managed either by myself or professional studios.

Shown left is the website I made for Little Coogie in Bangkok. The company is Thailand's second largest manufacturer of young children's clothes and exports to more than thirty countries throughout Asia, eastern Europe and the Middle East. Three new collections are introduced per year, each of which consists of about 150 items.

The site has featured in several design articles and more than 30 website design galleries.

www.littlecoogie.com →>>

This is a site I made for buydomain.co.uk, a UK company that sells personal, premium and corporate website domain names. The site was completed in June 2010 and currently has a database of about 1000 different domains.

A purpose-built Content Management System gives the site owners full control over everything and enables edits to be made at the click of a button.

www.buydomain.co.uk →>>

This is the website I made for SKJ Ancient Beadart, a company that sells ancient beads, specimen stone and Roman-period artefacts. The site features more than 400 different items and generates sales of several thousand dollars per month.

Home page photography was taken using a tripod-mounted digital SLR fitted with a 100mm macro lens. Lighting was controlled via a specially constructed lightbox.

www.ancient-beadart.com →>>

George Fisher is a Wall Street banker. His career highlights include CAO of Prudential Securities and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley. This small, minimalist website I made for him has appeared in about a dozen website design galleries.

The images of the Financial Times on the home page were photographed using natural light in my living room and then manipulated with Photoshop.

www.georgefisheradvisors.com →>>

Elite Interim Management work in partnership with one of Holland's largest interim management groups, InterExcellent, and supply temporary executive-level staff to businesses throughout the Asia Pacific region. Clients are predominantly Dutch and include household names such as Heineken, Shell, KLM & Philips

This is one of the few websites I've made that uses Flash as a design element.

WWW.EEINTERIM.COM/INDEX.PHP →>>

Completed in January 2007, this website for Spectrum Healthcare in California was my first freelance website design contract. It's a bit dated now and some of the typography is wrong, but I'm including it in this section as several people have commented positively on the graphic design.

The original site is now offline so I have reproduced the home page here on this server.

www.andrew-brundle.com/spectrum →>>

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about me and my services

I am an English website designer in Bangkok. I have been based in Thailand since 2001 and have a young son who goes to a local Catholic school. I work with clients worldwide and offer a range of professional services that include:

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terms and terminology

If web design is new to you and some (or all) of the terminology seems meaningless, feel free to take a look at the glossary. It's by no means exhaustive, but it covers a lot of common jargon and may be of help.

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Actionscript

Actionscript is an easy-to-use programming language that is built into Flash. It is similar to Javascript.

AJAX

AJAX is a technology used to add richness and interactivity to web pages. It was invented quite recently by a man at Google and has become a standard feature on most modern websites.

API

In terms of website design, an API can be thought of as a small computer program that can be used to access popular services such as Google maps and Google charts.

Blog

A blog is a good way of keeping a website fresh and up to date. Many blogging packages are available: some are easy to set up and manage; others are feature-rich and much more complicated.

Browser

A browser is the program you use to view web pages. Popular browsers include Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. Some people are surprised to learn that different browsers can often display the same web page differently. Because of this, thorough testing in all major browsers is essential when making websites.

CMS

A CMS, or Content Management System, is a sort of admin area that can be used to update, edit or delete website content. Some Content Management Systems are very basic; others are more comprehensive and give site owners control over almost every aspect of their site.

CSS

CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a language used to control the layout and presentation of web pages.

Database

A database is really just a collection of information. The information might be the names and addresses of your clients; it might be an inventory of your stock; or it might be a listing of room rates and availability at a hotel.

Domain name

A domain name, sometimes referred to as a URL, is basically the address of a website; ie, www.abc.com.

Encryption

Encryption is often necessary to prevent unauthorized access to confidential or sensitive information. The difference between encrypting and encoding is that encrypted content cannot be decrypted.

Flash

Flash is used to add animation, slideshows and video to websites. It's less popular today than in the past as many people find it unnecessary and distracting.

Hosting

See the entry for Server.

HTML

HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, is the core language used for making websites. Many website designers use a version of the language called XHTML.

Javascript

Javascript, also known as ECMAScript or DOM scripting, is a programming language used to add animation and interactivity to web pages. Javascript is often confused with JAVA, but the two languages are actually quite different.

PHP

PHP, or PHP Hypertext Protocol, is a programming language used to manage information on the server. It is often used in conjunction with AJAX to control the appearance and content of web pages.

SEO

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, refers to the techniques that are used to help websites achieve high rankings in Google, Yahoo or Bing.

Server

All websites need to be hosted on a server. Choosing a server is similar to choosing a service provider for a mobile phone: numerous packages are available, and variations in price and quality can be considerable.

SQL

SQL, or Structured Query Language, is a language used for retrieving information from a database.

Valid code

To ensure full standards compliancy and maximum functionality, valid code is essential. All CSS and XHTML code on this page adheres to standards advocated by the World Wide Web Consortium.

XHTML

XHTML, or Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, is basically another version of HTML.