Merlin Mason Graphic & Web Designer
About Merlin Mason
Hi, I'm Merlin, a graphic designer who creates beautiful, interactive & easily manageable websites.
I work internationally on a freelance basis and oversee all things web related at Andrews&Co. I also run WPfill.Me & WPfunction.Me, two tools that make WordPress developers lives easier.
I love web standards and open source technology, and spend most of my time working with WordPress, jQuery, HTML5 & CSS3.
A fan of travelling, I can be found cycling, snowboarding and egg scrambling in various cities around the world.
Currently based in:Leeds UK,London UK,Melbourne VIC,Melrose SA,Geraldton WA,Beaufort FRA.- Norwich UK.
Planning
- Information Architecture
- Organising your content, so search engines and people can find what they're after in the most efficient way.
- SEO & Content Strategy
- Working out the best way to keep old users returning to your site and help new users discover it.
- Advertisment Planning
- Want to drive traffic to your site through advertising or monitize your content by selling ad-space? It's all about targeting the right audience.
Design
- Naming, Logos & Branding
- Building your brand from scratch with a logo, accompanying typefaces, colour schemes, style guides and tone of voice.
- Wireframing
- Looking at the most basic aspects of layout, wireframing helps plan the functionality of your website without distractions.
- Site Mockups
- Before diving into the coding stage, we can plan how your branding can be used to make your content come to life.
Build
- HTML5, CSS3, PHP, jQuery
- Working with the latest technologies to create fast, interactive & search engine friendly websites.
- Responsive Mobile Design
- As there's becoming more and more devices that can connect to the web, making sure your content is accessible to all of them, regardless of size is becoming increasingly important!
- WordPress Integration (CMS)
- WordPress is free software that makes it easy for you to edit and create content on you website, all presented beautifully by your custom theme.
Deployment
- Hosting
- Where your website is stored online, I use high-speed, secure and reliable servers.
- Email Setup
- It's a scientific impossibility to use hotmail and be taken seriously at the same time.
- Analytics Integration
- Track where your visitors come from and what they do on your site. This information can then be used to optimise your marketing and advertising.
- Client Donhou Bicycles
- Role Design, Code
- URL donhoubicycles.com
- Colab N/A
- Client Eddie McClements
- Role Code
- URL em-pt.com
- Colab Create/Thrive
- Client ProperBikeCo.
- Role Design, Code
- URL properbikeco.com
- Colab Eight Armed Pet
- Client WPfunction.Me (Personal)
- Role Concept, Branding, Design, Code
- URL wpfunction.me
- Colab N/A
- Client Chris Polack Photography
- Role Design, Code
- URL christopherpolack.net
- Colab Miek
- Client Helen Ansell
- Role Code
- URL helenansell.com
- Colab A&Co.
- Client Leeds College of Art
- Role Branding, Design, Print Management
- URL Review by For Print Only.
- Colab Kyle Bibby
- Client Genevieve Ackland
- Role Design, Code
- URL acklandenviro.com
- Colab N/A
This doesn't have to be goodbye!
I'm a big fan of colaboration and I'm always interested in meeting and working with new people. Feel free to give me a shout if you'd like to discuss anything!
You can find me on the internet- info [at] merlinmason [dot] co.uk
- @MerlinMason
- +44 (0) 7742 183 507
© Merlin Mason 2012, all rights reserved.