About Dan
Daniel Oliver is a website designer and an entrepreneur. Based in Cornwall, Daniel has over 6 years experience working on the web, designing and building attractive, accessible and usable websites that are engaging and intuitive to their users and built using the latest web standards. Daniel currently works as a front-end web developer for Richard Quick Design. He spends his days pushing pixels around and writing xhtml and css code.
Daniel has a wealth of experience designing and working on the web and has had work published in popular web design magazines as well as online design galleries that showcase the best in web design. Daniel has worked with a number of both local and international based clients on a variety of projects ranging from simple brochure style websites to full scale ecommerce stores.
Away from the computer and work Daniel spends a lot of his time riding and enjoying bikes and has an unhealthy obsession with motorcycle trials in particular. He also enjoys spending time and going for a beer with friends as well as watching football and top gear.
About the site
This website is built with with valid xhtml, css code and lots of love. Built on an Apple Mac machine using such tools as Adobe Photoshop, Textmate and CSSEdit to get the job done. It is designed to conform with the latest web standards and most pages should validate as xhtml 1.0 Strict.
The website is powered by the Expression Engine content management system. Having used many different content management systems in the past including the likes of Wordpress, Expression Engine is now Daniel's content management system of choice. Daniel has used Expressione Engine on a variety of successful projects in the past and is constantly learning new techniques that allow him to build anything from a simple weblog type site to a full scale, multi-lingual dynamic website.
So far, this website has been featured on CSS Mania, screenalicious, CSS Website, CSS Impress, CSS Based, Screenfluent, Designs Creme, Most Inspired, The Daily Slurp and Light on Dark. These are all CSS website galleries that feature, what is considered to be, the best designed and coded CSS based websites. I have had other websites featured on various other galleries sites as well.