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Welcome.

My name is

Karl Carpenter.

Professional

website developer

with over 25 years experience.

Skills

Coding

LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), PostgreSQL, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML5 and CSS3 (including animation).

Platforms

WordPress (since 2007). I have a published theme at WordPress.org
Shopify (Official Shopify Partner since 2010)
OpenCart (since 2007)

Servers

Experienced with DNS, Apache and Nginx, installing SSL certificates, Linux Shell etc.

Graphic Design

Animation (Adobe Suite, Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, Media Encoder, Lightwave3D including character animation, 2D and 3D), particles and special effects, film credits, logo design, image and file format conversion.

Check out my animation showreel produced between 1998 - 2004. I composed the music in Acid Pro.

Marketing

Experienced in UI / UX design, SEO, (Ex-Google Analytics Certified) and with Google Ads and Facebook PPC advertising.

Experienced in Moz, SEMrush, Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Google My Business, Google Ads, Facebook Ads.

Customer Service / Interpersonal

No personality clashes or interpersonal issues, ever. I listen and empathise. I'm progressive, open-minded and deeply egalitarian. Able to accept criticism, admit mistakes and learn from others.

This Page

Is 100% W3C Valid
Receives a (notoriously difficult to achieve) 100 / 100 optimisation score in Google PageSpeed Insights.
Passes the Google Mobile-Friendly Test
Works without JavaScript.
The page was hand-coded from scratch. It is 100% my own work with no frameworks or libraries. All animation is CSS3. The page weighs under 50KB - around 2% of the average page size.
- This Page
  44KB
- Average Web Page
  2,000KB
If all web pages were coded like this one, we wouldn’t see another news story about websites crashing!