Who?
Born in Britain, he grew up in a sleepy village called Fair Oak
You’ve found yourself at the home of an English Front End Web Developer and User Interface lover, Simon Taggart.
Born in Britain, he grew up in a sleepy village called Fair Oak
He then moved to Australia, a much better option, where he fiiiiiiiiinally got his Permanent Residency, so now he really doesn't have to return to that god forsaken dump country, England.
Currently he resides in Melbourne, where he is cold but supplied with excellent coffee.
He builds robust, elegant and exquisite interfaces for the web and mobile devices in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Passionate about quality, obsessive about computed line-heights and font-sizes, he drinks way too much coffee Herbal Tea and can’t eat bread… or dairy… or soy… he’s an odd chap a Hipster…
He’s worked in a variety of industry sectors whilst creating things on the web. He’s done the public sector thing whilst at Southampton Solent Uni, and with Abacus e-media clients, Lincolnshire County Council. He’s worked in online publishing having worked on sites for the likes of Design Week, The Engineer and Meed. He’s produced and overseen work for clients in the consumer and B2B sectors in Australia and the UK including Scotthall BMW and Mini, Southampton Football Club, Derby County Football Club, Queens Park Rangers, Electrolux, Nivea, Pfizer, MCN, Campbells, Equal and Variety the Children’s Charity.
Currently he is plying his trade working with the team at Flippa.
This years My Coffee My Barista campaign, brought to the coffee loving world by Equal, is a campaign aimed to help support local barista talent and find Australia's favourite Barista.
Utilising the latest web technologies, the website uses a responsive design to get greater public engagement in any location, using their desktop or mobile devices. HTML5 Geo-location provides a pain free café finding service, to get people voting quicker.
A tool provided by the Australian Government to allow the general public to find out more information about the Digital Switch-over and where they live.
A heavily data driven site, Google maps is used to provide visual representation of signal strength, transmitter locations, switch off boundaries, satellite coverage and more.
He provided a rewrite of the UI for Phase 3 of the project, including JS structure and JavaScript templating
Orchard’s new site was built on top of an open source CMS called the Orchard Project. An MVC built project, the site builds upon the projects adoption of HTML5 and uses a minimal responsive design for mobile uses.
The site is built heavily on his adopted principle of OOCSS, as a result it has a highly modular and extensible structure to the CSS provided for the sites many design features.
More than Medication is a healthy living portal providing supporting information, articles, interactive elements, quizzes and puzzles help people be more aware of their well-being.
He was responsible for a large majority of the UI, including a suite of JavaScript powered quizzes and interactive elements to help increase user engagement.
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