Mike Irving - Professional Web Developer
.NET, ASP, SQL, CSS, XHTML Web Design and Search Engine Optimisation

Welcome to the website of Mike Irving, Macclesfield Web Design and SEO Specialist.
I am from the town of Macclesfield in Cheshire, not far from Manchester, UK.
I have been working as a Web Developer since 2002, starting with ASP (JavaScript and VBScript Syntax versions) and SQL, and now working largely in ASP.Net 2.0, 3.5 (C# Syntax), with AJAX extensions.
On the client side of Web Design, I am a competent HTML / XHTML programmer, I use CSS, and I write multi browser compliant code that conforms to the relevant W3C standards.
I am also highly experienced in programming cross-browser JavaScript (ECMAScript).
Since 2007, I have worked at leading Macclesfield Web Design Company Silkmoth Limited as a Web Developer.
Prior to my current position at Silkmoth,
I was working for a leading SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Company, based in Cheshire.
I have experience in the following technologies:
ASP, .Net (C#), SQL Server, HTML, XHTML, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, XML, RSS, IIS, Access.
The main programmes I utilise for web design and development include:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator.
I build websites for the following web browsers:
Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Apple Safari and Google Chrome.
Other Technologies I have experience in:
MySQL, Borland Delphi, Microsoft Visual Basic, some Apache, PHP and JSP.
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