Colin CharltonSenior Web Developer (joined 2007)

Colin has worked with the Internet as a developer since 1998. Having spent seven years as an ASP developer before joining West63rd as senior PHP developer in 2007, Colin is now an integral member of our team and his expertise will help transform your visions and concepts into a fully working project. Colin has a passion for standards, semantics, clean and efficient code, and all things web related.

He keeps himself up-to-date with the latest web technologies whilst also having a keen interest in SEO and mobile app development.

Core Competencies:

• Hand-code CSS, (X)HTML, JavaScript, AJAX
• Server side languages such as PHP, RoR and ASP.NET
• Database design and interaction
• Site usability and accessibility
• Adaptive / responsive and mobile design
• WordPress development
• Feed processing and generation in multiple formats
• Custom CMS solutions
• SilverStripe development
• E-Commerce - bespoke, JShop
• Progressive enhancement and graceful degradation
• Project management
• Troubleshooting and problem solving
• Performance testing

Core Technologies:

CSS, (X)HTML, AJAX, JavaScript, PHP, OOP, MySQL, TDD, SVN / GIT, jQuery, E-Commerce, SilverStripe, WordPress.