Kate Howat, Website Designer

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A website designer & front end developer with over 5 years of experience in digital advertising, and 7 in print. I love designing user friendly, fun & creative websites that portray the client's style and branding. I also specialise in business consultancy regarding content, layout and language of site in relation to the client's goals, values & customer base. Is your website communicating to the people you want it to? Is it keeping them engaged, on site, making a sale? That's what I'm here for.

Freelance

Web Designer

January 2023 - Today (1 year and 9 months)

Dentons Digital

Website Design & Front End Developer

December 2018 - December 2022 (4 years)

Westbury, UK

Consulting with clients on design choices and evaluation of design. Created & built concepts for clients in WP, following client brand guidelines, accessibility practices, creating a quality user journey using design & flow of content. Building signed off concepts & setting up shop sites, as well as putting sites live. Performed ongoing maintenance of over 150 client websites (WordPress & Static sites), including troubleshooting, optimisation, software updates & client requests. Used design software to create branding as well as eye catching & informative graphics. Collaborating with back end and sharing well documented code using established frameworks (primarily Bootstrap) in version control hubs such as Github, DevOps & Gist to improve workflow of backend devs.

Dentons Digital

Hosting Support

March 2017 - December 2022 (5 years and 9 months)

Westbury, UK

Maintaining websites & settings on Plesk & cPanel servers. Updating PHP, WordPress versions, WordPress plugins. Creating and setting up emails through Plesk, cPanel or SSH, including SPF & DKIM, POP/IMAP setup, Microsoft 365 & G Suite setup. Talking clients through email diagnostics, over the phone, in person or remotely using TeamViewer. Resolving connection issues at user, server & domain level. Diagnosing domain, nameserver & DNS resolution issues & tracking down connection failures. Adding, editing DNS & changing TTL settings. Diagnosing & amending DNS syntax issues for custom setups. Setting up website redirects through cPanel, Plesk & .htaccess. Downloading PHP libraries and troubleshooting PHP library issues. Transferring websites, domains, emails while keeping all services live with 0 downtime where required, even on live shop sites.

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Josephine Reese recommend Kate

Josephine Reese

CLS PLC

29/03/2023

Kate has taken over design work on our websites and is excellent. She has a great eye for design. Our pages flow, keep the eye on the page, keep the visitor on the page too. It's visually engaging and now much much better than it was.

What has most impressed me is Kate's ability to listen, ask questions, then take my list of what I want the site to do, and translate it into reality. She speaks plain English as well as tech which is so helpful. I've worked with designers before who say they understand what I want and then either give me something that is terrible, or give me exactly what I talked about with absolutely no effort in creating a good user design. Kate tells me how she thinks my "wants" can be best translated into great UX and engaging web design. She quietly shepherds me through the process and makes it pleasant and painless.

I highly recommend her work. Doesn't matter if you're a new business starting out or an existing one looking for a refresh, Kate is very good.

Bachelor of Science

Kingston University

2013

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Sociology with Psychology