Content Management & Web Development Skills

Broken socket and screwdriver As a former employee of Presence Online (makers of Aptrix and now packaged as part of IBM's Lotus Workplace Web Content Management or LWWCM) I have been working in Content Management for over 9 years.

I also have significant experience and knowledge in many other of the latest web technologies. You may have realised this site has been written in PHP and is fully W3C XHTML 1.1 and CSS2 compliant. It has also been checked for Web Accessibility and triple-A rated by Bobby.

It has been a legal requirement for UK websites to be accessible since 1999. Since then all websites have been expected to make "reasonable adjustments" to ensure their websites accommodate all users regardless of ability, disability.

I have been working in web design for many years - over 14 years in fact. I have extensive knowledge and experience using the following:

Content Management Software

  • Aptrix Content Server 3.x / 4.x
  • Aptrix Connect 2.x / Lotus Framework
  • IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management (LWWCM) - both Domino and Java (WebSphere) platform editions 1.x/2.x *
  • IBM Web Content Management (IBM WCM) 5.1.x / 6.0.x

Web Servers

  • Lotus Domino Server (R5 / R6)
  • WebSphere Application Server 5.x / 6.x
  • WebSphere Portal Server 5.1.x / 6.0.x
  • IIS (Internet Information Server)
  • Apache

Web Languages and Technologies

  • LotusScript and Notes Formula Language
  • HTML 4 (9 years) including hand-coding
  • XML / XSL / XHTML - up to XHTML 1.1
  • JavaScript (6 years) - including advanced dynamic-HTML (DHTML) and cross-browser coding
  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • ASP / VBScript - which my other website LC Limited (http://www.lclimited.co.uk) was written in
  • PHP - Hypertext Preprocessor - which this web site was written in
  • Java (J2EE)
and a background in
  • C and Oracle-SQL databases, ODBC and CGI/Perl.
* - both for Lotus Notes R5/R6 and J2EE (WebSphere Application Server/WebSphere Portal Server) platforms. IBM renamed LWWCM again in November 2004 to IBM Workplace Web Content Management. And is currently known as simply IBM WCM.