About
Rose Presentations is a small business based in Ashington in the North-East of England. It comprises of Phil Rose and a team of people who, while not being permanent staff members, can be called on at any time to help with the different areas in the design of a site, from graphics to databases and programming languages. Phil is self taught in Web Design having caught the bug back in 1996 when he did his very first "My Personal Homepage" site. He is proficient in HTML and CSS and is currently working with PHP and MySQL to create dynamic database driven websites.
It is Phil's love of the web design challenge that has brought about the affordable websites ideal. He believes that everyone should have a chance to get their ideas out there for all to see and he would like to help this happen. He has the skills to offer something and as he really enjoys doing this he is offering it at a low cost.
His interest in web design has also brought about a few voluntary challenges, the first being his Local Community site about his hometown, Ashington, which he has been running for 3 years now. His newest venture has been to become a voluntary webmaster for his local council's new Community Portal for the local area. He applied for this position as it was something that interested him and was basically something he already did, on a smaller scale, with his own Community site. It is his responsibility to contact the local community groups in his designated area and get them interested in the website and also to obtain their details to add to the respective sections.
Phil currently works with the following technologies, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and a variety of software and scripts to create the ideal site for the customers requirements. If a script exists to do the job required for a site then Phil uses it, that is one way to keep the costs down, none of the worries of hours of script writing building up the cost of a site, why re-invent the wheel? These scripts of course can usually be modified to match in with the site design so they don't look out of place and look as though they were created specially for the site.
Sites designed by Rose Presentations end up being hosted on anything from the Free providers (i.e. Freeserve) who offer only HTML and CSS support to Paid hosts (cheap but very reliable) who support PHP and MySQL along with a variety of other technologies. This also helps to keep costs down as hosting space is only paid for as, and when, required.