About
Why Did She Do It?
Liz Jamieson has 10 years experience as a web designer and 25 years in software engineering.
She wrote this website and created the diywebmastery courses to address a need. She believes non-technical people who want an online presence can benefit from a greater technical appreciation of the web regardless of whether they do the web design work themselves.
She’s self taught in the area of graphic design which probably shows. (I mean, like what’s going on with all the grass!?).
Liz thinks that should you decide to become self-sufficent online, you can make a passable attempt at some simple graphic design work, and part of the diywebmastery course addresses this.
Is That All?
How your site looks is just one aspect of web design. Liz also explains how to,
- set up your site internally to make the best impact on search engines
- communicate your products and services online to best effect
- use other internet sites to maximise your site’s chances of success
- best organise your work so that you so some of it, but you outsource other parts you’d rather not do
- specify work to freelancers so that they do the best job for you
DIYWebmastery brings a better quality of web site ownership to small business owners and individual entrepreneurs alike.
An Interview With Elizabeth
Q: How long have you been developing web sites?
A: Since 1998
Q: What kind of books do you like to read?
A: Academic fiction (e.g Possession by A.S Byatt) or technical journals
Q: Do you have pets?
A: Three dogs, Rio, Rocco and Roma.
Q: Have you ever won a trophy or medal?
A: Yes, but only at school!
Q: Do you play an instrument?
A: Yes – the flute quite well, and the piano badly.
Q: Do you have any phobias?
A: Oh yes. being close to water in a lake at night or to very large isolated buildings like wind turbines.
Q: What is your favorite web site?
A: Hmmm, let me see. At the moment it’d be,
- Huffington for news
- Twitter for microblogging
- iGoogle for organising input to my brain
- Problogger for online marketing news etc
Q: How many languages do you speak?
A: Two, English and French. I can understand Italian pretty well but struggle to speak it.
Q. Have you ever lived abroad?
A. Yes, France, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands and Italy
Q. Which country haven’t you visited that you’d like to visit?
A. Ummmm – Mexico maybe, or Canada.
Q. If you were God for a day, what would you change?
A. I’d make it so anyone who despised people different to themselves, would change overnight into the type of person they hate. Just like in The Watermelon Man.
Q. What did you do before the internet changed everything?
A. Well, if I didn’t know something, (and I couldn’t find it in a book in the local shop), it stayed that way.
Q. Favourite Film?
A. A few. Terminator (all of them), Bonfire of the Vanities, Gosford Park, Analyse This, The Matrix, The Usual Suspects.
Q. Film you never want to see again in a million years?
A. The Green Mile. It’s the most dreadful, gut-wrenching, sickening memory that wasn’t mine. But now is.
Q. The most beautiful place you’ve ever been?
A. Top of the Blue Mountains, Jamaica.