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Welcome to Steven, our new php developer

Colin Harris Website Development are delighted to announce the appointed of Steven Ions as the company's new Website Developer.

Steven joins us from Fat Frog Design, a Newcastle-based agency, having been trained in the ways of the web at Northumbria University in from 2006 - 2011, where he gained a Foundation Information Communication Management Degree in 2008, a BSc Applied Computing degree in 2009 and PGDip Web Computing Degree in 2011, before taking up his position at Fat Frog.

Steven has skills in the core "LAMP" family - Php, Mysql and associated techiques.  Steven is a very gifted programmer, who speciaises in working with and creating modules for CMS (Content Management Systems).   He is also well versed in HTML, CSS, AJAX/jQuery, Drupal and even a little Flash - skills he will use to create dynamic websites for the growing client list in the business.

"Steven was the ideal candidate." says Colin Harris, owner of Colin Harris Website Development.  "His mix of experience in PHP and Content Management, commercial experience with one of the region's more noted companies and his formal schooling in web skills at University stood out above the other candidates during the exhaustive recruitment process.  Steven is part of my vision for the company, to grow organically and expand as demand for our services increases.  He will enable us to produce more high quality but affordable websites to businesses in the North East".