In English

This website is mostly targeted at Dutch (speaking) people, but I would love some local customers as well.

I was born in The Netherlands in 1981 and moved to the USA in 2006. I studied to become an editor at a publishing house, but my immigration spoiled that. My English is pretty good, but I don’t command it as well as my native tongue, which is a prerequisite to do proper editing work.

While I was working on my novel here in de States, I got involved in a writing community. I started doing the work I was trained to do, editing and proofreading, for fellow members on a very small scale. Read short stories, bits of novel, things like that. Slowly I expanded my duties to whole manuscripts and even ready-for-publishing proofs. It was then that I realised that I could do this for a job, if I tried hard enough.

Ever since I got access to the internet, I have been building websites. Since 1999 I am the webmaster of a big (+2000 members) community, also revolving around books, and I have built numerous sites for myself and other people. I love creating something for everyone to see and strive to make it not only nice to look at, but also simple to work with.

So this site has two parts: the proofreading/editing part, and the website design part. I love to do both and I also think that even in English I can do both. Plot structure, character development and suspense are universal. The language in which web pages are writting is English anyway.

If you think that I could do something for you, please let me know and I’m sure we can work something out. You can find examples of my work under website design in the menu. I hope to hear from you!

Skills

internet PHP, MySQL, CSS, (X)HTML and javascript.

computer MS Office, Windows 98, 2000, NT, XP, Internet Explorer/Outlook FireFox. For building websites I use Crimson Editor and Photoshop CS2.

languages I am fluent in Dutch and English and understand German.

writing I write fiction, reviews and articles for wide ranging target groups, both in print and online.