Stephen James

Stephen loves to learn new things and is passionate about being in a field that changes every day. He is a media designer with experience in interactive, print and video. Stephen specializes in semantic, standards-based information design and highly interactive web animation. He uses best practices for usability, accessibility, search engine optimization and blogging. Stephen has produced a large variety of projects from a literary magazine to a corporate web portal, HD video to database development. He has a marketing and advertising agency background and currently works full-time at a full-service advertising agency in Indianapolis, Indiana. Stephen has collaborated with illustrators, printers, writers, and public relations specialists.

In his personal life, he loves to take photographs, read books, write poetry, travel overseas, and listen to news/political podcasts, college lectures and classic literature

He has experience in the following tasks:
- Graphic and user interface design
- Flash timeline and Actionscript animation
- Dynamic content and databases interaction for Flash and XHTML
- Semantic, standards based, W3C-compliant, cross browser markup
- Best practices for usability, accessibility, and information architecture
- Information design for search engine optimization (SEO)
- Best practices for corporate blogging
- Video editing and compression for the web