About Me
Firstly, Thank you for taking time out to find out a bit more about me.
Now… I am Andrew Yates, a Web Developer/iPhone & iPad Developer based in the centre of Birmingham, UK. Working as Lead Developer at 383 Project in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham.
Going back a few years, I have always been interested in computers and the internet. I started getting interested in designing websites when I was about 13 years old. Starting off (dare I say it) with services like Geocities and various other services. I was then privileged to be given a hosting account with my neighbors company. The sites this time I created in FrontPage. That’s when my old ‘acynet’ was born. ‘acynet’ was a series of mini-sites, each one related to a hobby/interest of mine back then.
When I was about 14 years old I started to move away from Frontpage sites and started to get to grips with XHTML/CSS and more importantly the e107 themeing system. e107 is a Content Management System that I still use to this day on ReelBigFish.info. Thanks goes to a guy called Brian for teaching me bits and pieces, as what he taught me back then made everything fall into place and more importantly make sense.
I became a dab hand at e107 and was then invited to join the e107 Support Team. I spent many hours on the e107 forum as well as email/Skype/MSN helping people out. I don’t get to do as much as I would like nowadays but every so often I help someone out.
I started to do more personal projects as well as freelance projects, which mainly involved XHTML, WordPress & e107 themes.
For Christmas 2007 I released a series of e107 themes for my project ‘e107 Advent’. These can still be downloaded from various e107 theme sites. Unfortunately due to work commitments in 2008 & 2009 I haven’t been able to yet bring the project back for another year. It hasn’t gone i’m sure it will make a return one year!
New Year 2008 I bagged an interview at 383 Project. I have to thank Twitter for getting me the interview, I can always say that I got my job using Twitter. I started on January 21st 2008, and have enjoyed it ever since. Working on WordPress sites like the old days, however the things these sites do still blow my mind compared to the ones I was creating before starting 383 Project.