About

I am a web designer from sunny Loughborough, Leicestershire in the UK. My primary focus is on creating simple, usable, standards compliant websites. I am equally comfortable working as a front-end web developer alongside a creative graphic designer who specialises in the web, before being handed a Photoshop or Fireworks document to get my teeth into. Additionally, I always ensure my web pages are optimised for search engines.

Life

When I'm not working, you'll probably find me spending time with my friends, family and Laura - my long-term girlfriend. I enjoy video games, watching / playing football, watching an unhealthy amount of movies, working through entire seasons of American TV dramas, listening to music or browsing the web. I have also been playing the drums for nearly twenty years and have been known to dabble in video and audio / music production in the past.

You can also find me on flickr, last.fm and twitter.

This website

The benspencer.com domain became available in June 2008, so I snapped it up. ExpressionEngine is used to power the site, which for web designers like myself who insist on using clean and well structured XHTML markup, is ideal. Hosting is provided by the fantastic (mt) Media Temple over in California.