Ben and Casey Williams

Ben and Casey Williams

More than good looks

Just like people, a good web site is more than the outer looks. It should be friendly, interesting, and easy to get along with. Also just like people, looks fade and styles change. It's what's inside that matters most, and for web sites, that means good code. Clean, standards compliant, search engine friendly, easily updatable code. That's the kind of web sites I will design for you.

Greater than 10

If you've read this far, that means that I've probably held your attention for more than 10 seconds, which is more attention than an average web site receives before the viewer gets bored and looks for something more interesting. But since you're still here, that means:

  1. You were able to find my web site (good coding).
  2. The web site looked intriguing enough to stay (good looks).
  3. The web site was interesting enough to read this far (good content).

Wow! That's a lot of good.

About Ben Williams (nice to meet you!)

Hi, glad you're here. I am a well rounded Web Developer, Information Architect, and User Interface Designer. I have extensive experience creating websites from the ground up, integrating many with a variety of CMS’s including DotNetNuke, Drupal, Wordpress, Perch, and others on occasion. I have developed branding, corporate identities, public facing websites, intranet sites, and advertisements for professional products and services. My recent interests have been leaning towards large-scale web application development/management and the “mobile web”.

What I've been doing recently

Genares

I currently hold a full time position at Genares. Genares is a reservations provider to the hospitality industry. Genares links the online traveler from their computer or phone to their hotel room and gives the hotelier the benefit of having a worldwide hotel sales staff without the cost. I am responsible for everything website related, including the company's corporate websites, front-end development for the company's booking engine, and client website development.

Benjamin Sites

I also do freelance work from time to time under the name of Benjamin Sites. If you have a need of front-end web development and design services for small projects, send me a message and I'll see if I can help.

Education Details

I've been formally trained in the art of web design via an Advanced Web Design Certification, with a concentration in Coding, from Sessions.edu. I also hold a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from the University of North Texas. But even more importantly, I'm constantly teaching myself and staying up to date on web standards and trends through books and blogs.

I graduated from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration with a major in Logistics. After working hard in the logistics world for 3 years, I realized that it wasn't what I wanted to do for the rest of my career. So I went back to school and learned all about web development. Now I love what I do.

When I'm not working, I enjoy courting my lovely wife (seen in the picture above), playing with my two sons, writing songs on the guitar, playing video games, spending time with friends and family, and anything else that's generally considered good clean fun :)

 

Resume

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Tech highlights

Here is a list of web design technology and software that I have experience in.

Coding

  • HTML(5)
  • CSS(3)
  • JavaScript & jQuery
  • DotNetNuke Skinning
  • Basic PHP
  • Basic MySQL

Strategy & Best Practices

  • Information Architecture
  • UI and Graphic Design
  • SEO
  • Project Management
  • Content Strategy

Software

  • Dreamweaver
  • Photoshop
  • Fireworks
  • OS X
  • Windows XP/Vista/7
  • Basic Flash
  • Basic Illustrator