I'm James Teale, a web developer / web designer, Wallace and Gromit fanatic, and a coffee snob based between Teddington and London.
I have 13 years experience,
5 as a web designer and web developer.
8 as a graphic designer and art director,
I love developing, conceptualising, designing, animating, illustrating, story boarding, good typography and drinking loads of good coffee.
Recent Projects
Currently I just finished the Flex Master Class with Academy class.
Last week I had a couple of days with DDB Health, and the week before that I built an econ site which I designed for the Royal Horticultural Society.
Before that I helped out Haymarket with their Fantasy Formula One game for Vodafone.
I'm also developing a Flash game site for myself (it's tough doing your own stuff) , hopefully it will be out in August.
Studios, agencies and charities
I have been fortunate enough to work with some awesome studios, some really talented people and some cool brands. The Studios I have freelanced for, OgilvyOne Worldwide, Greenroom, Dare Digital, Reed Business Information, DSGi (PC World), Think Jam, Evidently, Haymarket, Royal Horticultural Society, DLG and Dig! Marketing
Coding
I hand code , Actionscript 3, HTML, XML, CSS and Actionscript 2.
I have also written a little PHP and Javascript.
Programs
I work with Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Illustrator, Photoshop and more recently Flex.
Some of my Responsibilities
- Conceptualise, plan web applications
- Build RIA's (Rich Internet Applications)
- Design and HTML and Flash sites
- Build Flash sites
- Build HTML and CSS web sites
- Design, build and test web-mailers
- Story board, design and build web banners and web animations.
- And a little illustration
Reading Matter
I'm currently reading Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns (Joey Lott and Danny Patterson)
The other books I've got through are:
- Essential ActionScript 3 (Colin Moock)
- Search Engine Optimisation for Flash (Todd Perkins)
- Actionscript Animation (Keith Peters) (both AS2 and AS3)