The Company
youlove.us
Alex Stanhope
Creative Director
Spencer Lavery
Creative Director
Chris Wheeler
Technical Director
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We're a different breed here at youlove.us, here's why:
We're a new company, and not just in our formation. We're a new breed of company. By bringing together renowned practitioners in their own fields, with a collective 36 years' industry experience, we're able to offer you an expert, professional service at a fraction of the cost of other equally-talented agencies. We can do this because we're smaller, more refined, and have built a business that thrives on finding newer, more efficient ways to do things.
Between us we have taught, lectured and written for various publications on the topics of design, coding and photography, amongst others. This knowledge translates into one of the highest levels of service you can possibly experience in this industry. Let us finish in saying that there is no job too big or small for us, and we have a team of specialists on standby every day of the week poised and ready to solve your problems. This is what we do, and we absolutely love it.
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The history of youlove.us
youlove.us was formed at the beginning of 2008 with very big plans. The fusion of three industry players has created an outfit that not only truly understands the web as a medium, but seeks daily to further its development.
We're currently based in Chichester, a gorgeous city within easy reach of London and the south coast alike. We also have a small office in New York, NY and are looking to expand our business on that side of the Atlantic significantly.
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Mission Statement
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Alex Stanhope
Alex has been designing and developing web sites since 1997, and brings a range of skills to the proverbial table; including (but in no way limited to) standards-compliant, accessible coding, front-end design, and search engine optimisation to name but a few.
Alex originally trained as a photographer at the prestigious London College of Printing (now known as the London College of Communication), and upon graduating set up as a freelancer in the capital working on a wide range of project commissions in the fashion, advertising and editorial fields. Alex's photographic work has been published internationally, and exhibited in a number of group and one-man exhibitions in the UK.
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Spencer Lavery
Spencer, although only 24, has gained 8 years' industry experience working freelance and for various large agencies. He is considered an authority on the subjects of standards-based web design, having spoken about CSS, SEO, accessibility, usability and analytics at various events and podcasts.
Originally a graphic designer, artist and musician - Spencer has firm roots in the creative side of design, though over the past 4 years has cemented himself as an expert in the field of front-end web development. Spencer's designs have won numerous awards and are regularly featured in design showcases around the world.
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More about Spencer
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Chris Wheeler
Chris is an immensely talented programmer, capable of writing 10 lines of code to rival 100 lines of most other developers'. More of an engineer than a pure creative, Chris specialises in object-oriented PHP, XHTML, JavaScript, and database design and development. Chris enjoys the challenge of making things work, and continually refining them once they are working.
In 2003, whilst undertaking a degree in Computing and Internet Technologies Chris began a highly successful freelance business, so successful that he began working as a full-time freelancer the moment he finished his degree. This continued until early 2008 when he joined forces with Alex and Spencer to form youlove.us.
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