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Working closely with the Marketing and Development teams you will produce attractive, functional and user friendly web sites for our web-hosting brands: 123-reg, Webfusion and Donhost.
You will have a passion for usability, compatibility and accessibility, and an eye for improving web pages, visitor experience and sales revenue. A master of structured, standards compliant XHTML & CSS, you will produce pixel-perfect web pages and bring our designs to life.
Bringing technical expertise and support to the design team you will code sophisticated user-interaction (using JavaScript, AJAX and jQuery) and server-side functionality (Template Toolkit, .htaccess, PHP/ MySQL). You will be responsible for creating future-proof dynamic templates and content management systems, enabling the New Media department to work smarter.
Day to day tasks include: designing and building bomb-proof templates, database administration, server-side scripting, creating functional user interfaces, performing site and product updates, supporting the marketing and design teams.
CORE FUNCTIONS
- Working to brand guidelines to design and build great templates and systems for our customer facing sites.
- Bring our designs to life with standards compliant HTML-CSS.
- Code server-side functionality using Perl, PHP or C# / (.Net)
- Integrate server-side with client code. Working with APIs to fetch data and convert it into interactive websites.
- Perform site and product updates.
- Improve visitor experience, and aim to generate sales revenue through your actions
-Increase natural page ranking through Search Engine Optimisation.
- Keep up to date with latest web technologies and skills.
TECHNICAL / PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Expert in XHTML-CSS
- Expert in JavaScript, AJAX and jQuery. Well-versed with OO patterns, and loosely coupled design.
- Adept at creating dynamic sites in LAMP environment as well as .NET stack.
- Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite, unix command line and SVN
Desirable
- ActionScript/Flash
NECESSARY EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Minimum 2 years web development experience as demonstrated through portfolio of work.
- Education to degree level or equivalent commercial experience.
- Must be able to choose right technology for the task and architecture code in order to achieve short development time and high code maintainability.
Desirable
- Usability and prototyping
- Analytics packages knowledge (Google Analytics, DC-Storm)
- Wordpress development
PERSONAL SKILLS / COMPETENCES REQUIRED
- Proven project management, interpersonal and organisational skills are essential.
- Demonstrate a natural flare for good web / graphic design and an eye for improving web pages.
- Proactive.
Webfusion has been helping people to create websites since 1997¿¿¿yes that¿¿¿s right, well before the dot-com bubble burst.
We host more than 1.4 million websites and over 2 million domain names ¿¿¿ making us the UK¿¿¿s No 1 hosting company.
With an eco-friendly UK data centre, and over 170 expert personnel, we can deliver any website project ¿¿¿ no matter the size.
We¿¿¿re continually expanding our global presence and have recently launched in North America. The future is looking good.
You¿¿¿ll work alongside colleagues here and in the UK, designing, developing and promoting our webhosting and domain registration services in UK, Germany and US.
We¿¿¿re not your usual web hosting company; although we¿¿¿re really focused on sales and revenue, we want our services to have an impact on everyone who uses them. We¿¿¿re still not satisfied - we can do better, on many other markets. But with your help, we¿¿¿ll get there.
Interested? Send your CV and salary expectations to romania@webfusion.com. We ll contact you as soon as we have an opening that matches your skills and experience.
