About
Laura Whitehead is a freelance web designer with background training in graphic design and environmental education. She worked in the voluntary sector for over 15 years, in a wide range of roles from information development to management of an infrastructure support charity; and is now available for website design, graphic and print design, support, consultancy and training.
Primarily designing for the nonprofit sector and able to work with public and private sectors, Laura offers attractive, affordable and accessible websites and design for print. Clients locations include the UK, France and the USA.
Skills and Technologies:
- Graphic design and typography
- W3C, accessibility, usability and web standards
- XHTML
- Advanced CSS
- PHP/MySQL
- MODx CMS
- Wordpress
- Drupal
- Joomla
- sNews
- Ajax, Javascript and J-Query
- Industry standard software and open source software for print and design
- Information architecture and knowledge management
- Platforms: Mac, Linux and Windows
- Social Media
Where you might have seen Laura delivering talks and presentations
UK Circuit Rider Conferece 4.0 - Spring 2008
'Naked in a Goldfish Bowl - Web 2.0 for nonprofit organisations', seminar on social media to support ICT workers
South West ICT Hub Conference - Spring 2007
'Getting the ICT Support you Need for your Organisation' seminar on circuit riders
Devon ICT Conference - Summer 2006
'Website Accessibility and Usability' seminar for nonprofit organisations
Laura also delivers trailor made training workshops for voluntary and community and third sector organisations in the South West.
Laura blogs regularly about technology and social media for nonprofit organisations and accessible website design - see my popular blog at Laura's Notebook.
Popokatea can be found on the ICT Hub's Supplier directory for voluntary and community organisations at: www.suppliersdirectory.org.uk.
