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Senior Web Designer (CSS) at The Well Studio Ltd

An opportunity exists for an experienced CSS/Interface designer with Well Studio. 

You will be experienced in producing quality, logical, solid production code for existing and new websites using professional best practice techniques and strategies for Browser support. You will be able to conceptualise your ideas using layout techniques and prototypes. 

Situated in London (nearest tube Old Street) and also with the opportunity to work from home, you will be working with a varied client base, providing web development, web maintenance and digital design. We have two major, multi-year branded clients with ongoing projects to get your teeth into from day one.

Skills

It is expected that: 

…you have a love of web standards and have bags of experience in the production of CSS, (X)HTML and JavaScript for websites, particularly dynamic content based sites. 

…you have a solid grasp of JavaScript/AJAX and are experienced with JavaScript frameworks, specifically jQuery 

…you have a great design eye and can demonstrate a flair for good web layout design. You understand information architecture and can identify the design constraints for quick loading data rich pages. You appreciate that a ‘pretty’ design isn’t usually the best option for the web and your layout ideas are about good HTML and CSS techniques as opposed to certain visual designers’ heavy bias to using Photoshop and Flash. 

…you have great attention to detail and are able to notice if layouts are amiss, a <div> is off by one pixel or padding is causing the page content to look unbalanced. 

…you are able to produce quality, logical, solid production layout/presentational code for existing web sites and new projects. Your code uses best practice techniques and adheres to strategies for Browser support and degrades gracefully. You are quick at solving common CSS issues and implementing industry accepted workarounds where necessary. 

…you are able to wireframe and prototype concepts for clients using a number of different software tools. 

…you are able to work with a Technical Web Development team specialising in production of ASP.NET sites. Though you won't need to have complete understanding of .NET, you will be able to work your HTML and CSS into the ASP.NET controls. 

…you are happy to work on small maintenance tasks and prioritise these alongside work on fixed price projects. 

…you are able to contribute to client proposals, including solution development and providing fixed price time estimates for your work. As a small company, you will have the opportunity to get involved in project management and account management if you want to, however if you are a purist designer who wants to spend 100% of your time doing just that, then that's ok – we can offer flexibility. 

…as an ideal candidate you have 3 or more years experience as a web/interface designer. 

It is hoped that: 

…you understand and evangelise the need for semantically correct data. You are passionate about the data structure of outputted pages and the implications this has for good indexing. You recognise page load times are a significant factor for server overhead and organic search placement. 

…you subscribe to the holy grail of HTML5/CSS3 whilst maintaining a level of realism. You recognise there is no such thing as perfect CSS but you are not going to stop chasing the dream. 

…you are familiar with building templates for systems such as Wordpress or Joomla. You know how to customise a raft of social media sites, or you are not afraid of the challenge. 

…you understand where the web has come from and that ‘old school’ techniques using deprecated tags are still a necessary evil in the production of email newsletters. 

…you deplore IE6. You are asked to tolerate its use inside our customer’s networks and be patient in the deployment of IE6 and IE7 workarounds as a necessary evil to keep your beautiful standards compliant code intact. 

…you have an understanding of search engine optimisation techniques for organic search, analytics for campaign measurement. You have a keen interest with developments in social media. Twitterphobia is not considered healthy. 

…you have a passion for keeping yourself up to speed with cutting edge techniques and practical ways in which we can implement new ideas to improve our client's sites. 

…you are educated to degree level and can demonstrate how you network, keep up to date and research.

To apply for the above position, forward your latest CV to dave.patrick [at] wellstudio.co.uk

Job Details

Salary: £35-£40k per annum dependent on experience