Web Design

I’ve done web design since 2001 and it's been both challenging and fun. I specialize in projects for small and medium-size companies, individuals and non-profits.

I expect my clients to be good in their business, rather than in writing, photo-editing or understanding search engines. For this reason, I’m not a fan of do-it-yourself systems and my clients tend to appreciate the fact they can simply send me rough content and I smooth it out into an attractive and search-engine friendly presentation.

Web development requires a lot besides designing the template. In big companies, they have one person for each requirement and each project has a varied combination of requirements. I really enjoy the process of synthesis - starting with a vision and pulling it all together. In a typical small website, I do most of the following:

• Information architecture - figuring out how to present the content in digestible bites and logical sequence
• Copy writing - heavy editing or writing original texts and articles
• Photo editing - retouching supplied photos, sometimes even my own project snapshots
• Translations - I translate English-Czech and Czech-English and coordinate translations in other languages
• Web design – design of page-layout, navigation, background etc.

People behind the Websites

For me, the web is all about the people behind it. I met many exceptional people within this business. For example, I happen to have two world-record holders among my clients and they couldn't be more different - Marie Brozova, a gentle woman, holds the record for drawing the largest drawing with colored pencils and Rudolf Bok, a stunt man by profession, holds the world record in jumping into water - and surviving. I meet people who are professionals in their field and love their work and it’s fascinating to learn what makes them tick.

Very often a project needs a website in order to get off the ground. I enjoy being there when companies and projects are forming and being there later, when they’ve developed into rocking enterprises. I like to see websites that started with 5 pages grow into information sources with hundreds of articles. If the concept is right from the beginning, the sky is the limit.

My portfolio is available at www.translation-proofreading-webdesign.com