Web Design

Web design promises fascinating possibilities and I love the opportunities and challenges it presents. The multimedia nature of the Internet utilizes several of my skills at the same time, so becoming a website designer, or more precisely a web developer, was an obvious choice.

Web Design and Me

I do 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. Web development requires a lot beside design. In big companies, they would have one person for each position, I get to do it all.

Each project is very different combines several of my talents. I really enjoy the process of synthesis - starting with a vision and pulling it all together. In a typical small website, I would do most of the following:

• Information architecture - figuring out how to present the content in digestable chunks and a logical sequence
• Copy writing - heavily editing or writing original texts and articles
• Photo editing - retouching all supplied photos
• Photographing - if there's not enough available photos, I take my own and edit them for the web
• Translations - I translate English-Czech and Czech-English and coordinate translations in other languages
• Web design - designing the layout of the page, navigation, background etc.
• Web promotion - I consult or directly work on promoting the web through links, articles, banners, search engine optimization etc.

People Behind the Websites

For me, the web is all about the people behind it. I met many exceptional people through 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 fragile woman, holds a record in drawing the largest drawing and Rudolf Bok, a stunt man by profession, holds the world record in jumping into water - and surviving it.

But the internet is also about communication, about bridges across continents. I was once a member of a group of artists from around the world who work with nature themes. Each month we'd agree upon a subject and each of us would create an art work with that theme. Once, we wanted to choose “spring flowers,” but our Australian member said: “Sorry guys, we have autumn down here.” Duh! In moments like these, as a user, I realize just what the word global can mean - that we really need to stop thinking in our own framework and step out of our shell. I still think that the world wide web is a miracle of sorts.

Growing with the Websites

Very often a project needs a website in order to get off the ground. A website, like a business card, is among the very first things people need when they start a business or project. I enjoy being there when things are forming and take shape and being there later, when they developed into rocking enterprises. I like to see websites which started with 5 pages grow into information sources with hundreds of articles. If the concept is right from the beginning, sky is the limit.

Check it out!

We now have website of our own, where you can see samples of all our projects, prices ,etc.. Please visit www.translation-proofreading-webdesign.com and don't forget to recommend us to people who might need our services :-)