My first week at Key Multimedia… :: August 29th, 2010

Well, the first week in the new job has been pretty incredible so far! I got a fantastic welcome to the office and I already feel really happy and comfortable!

The set up is brilliant and I can wholly concentrate on Web Development rather than answering phones and being an all-round customer support drone! Excellent! Plus, I think for the first time in my career as a developer I was actually praised and congratulated on my work – feels pretty darn good let me tell ya!

So here’s to many more happy weeks at Key Multimedia!

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This week I have mostly been….resigning :: July 31st, 2010

After five years at Osprey Marketing I’ve decided to move on to bigger and better things. As of 23rd August 2010, I will be working as a Web Developer at Key Multimedia in Dorchester on the “world-famous” Prince of Wales, Poundbury estate.

Needless to say, I can’t wait to start and get my developing juices flowing!

www.keymultimedia.co.uk

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Adam and Hailey enjoying Pimms in Dorchester-on-Thames Adam and the Guys having a BBQ Brisol Volksfest 2010

All about me, Adam Montague

Name: Adam Charles Donald Montague
Age: 26
Location: A quiet little village near Dorchester, Dorset, UK

My Skills as a Web Developer

It was at a library book sale in High Wycombe, 2003, when I picked up my first HTML 4.0 guide. I knew the basics but wanted to learn more.

After mastering HTML, I was soon helping friends and reletives with getting online. It would be another three years before I would apply for my first position in the web industry.

Now, in Strict XHTML and CSS coding is my passion, and building websites that mirror-image a clients design is what I love doing. While I work predominately in these two mediums I have skills in PHP, JavaScript, MySQL and Flash.

I work on all kinds of websites, from plain HTML info-sites to full database-driven, content managed sites with integrated shopping carts. I do the lot.

My favourite tools of the trade are my primary weapons, Dreamweaver and Photoshop. I’ve tried many different programs but always end up coming back to these!

When developing CMS and E-commerce websites, I use the seemingly unlimited powers of Joomla, WordPress, CushyCMS and PrestaShop. While CushyCMS isn’t strictly a CMS package, it helps some of my less experienced customers to use the power of a regular CMS without all the additional complications.

I use PC and Mac both on a regular basis and have a high knowledge of both operating systems.

SEO is where I started my career in web development. I have an understanding of Search Engine Optimisation that allows me perhaps greater success with search results than other developers. Being found on page one in search engines, especially Google, is something everyone wants and I feel given the right information I can get them there.

I use tried-and-tested techniques that work to get websites found in Google for specific keywords and keyword phrases. “Marquee hire Dorset” and also “Private Midwives” are two that I am proud to have successfully engineered.

Adam Montague, the person.

Since 2000 I have been a keen mountain biker, practicing the sport of trials. Although this is now only a hobby, at my best I was competing at an Intermediate-to-Expert level on the Hampshire BikeTrial circuit.

I have always had a passion for photography and now mainly use my photography skills in a hobby called Urban Exploring. Urban Exploring is the discovery, exploration and documentation of abandoned buildings, bunkers and generally vacant, forgotten spaces. Such places that forge the modern world and are now sadly left to rot and decay.

I own a 1989 Golf GTI and have a passion for the classic VW scene. I attend VW festivals throughout the year and look forward to the day I enter my car into the show and shine competitions.


My education history

GCSE’s :: 2000

Royal Manor School, Portland, Dorset

  • English Literature & Language :: C
  • Mathematics :: C
  • Science :: C
  • Information Technology :: C
  • German Language & Writing :: C
  • Graphic Design :: C
  • Art :: B

City & Guilds Dimploma in ICT Support :: 2003

Weymouth College, Dorset

  • Customer Support :: Distinction
  • Maintain Equipment & Systems :: Distinction
  • Install & Configure Equipment and Operating Systems :: Distinction
  • Install, Configure & Maintain Software :: Distinction

Additional Qualifications

  • CNet Linux Basics :: Pass
  • CGI & Perl Basics

Where am I working now?

Osprey Marketing Limited, Portland Marina

I joined Osprey Marketing in February 2006 as an SEO technician when the company was called WebsiteMarketing Limited.

Adam in the office

Employed solely to implement SEO upgrades based on my research and the methods put in place by the company, I quickly found myself becoming an integral part of the business

More clients wanted to change graphical elements of their websites as well as technical so I began to build complete website solutions for our clients

Before long I had taken a grasp of not only plain HTML websites, but full database-driven content managed systems and e-commerce packages.

I also took on responsibility for the dedicated server which 90% of our clients reside. Managing all aspects from DNS and Nameserver changes and monitoring e-mail ques, e-mail setup, support and hosting

Every day I liase with clients, either on the telephone, through e-mails or in person. I often create help sheets and videos to assit clients with their CMS or e-mail setup.

Early in 2010, the company changed its name to Osprey Marketing to further reflect the wide range of services it (therefore, I) can offer clients. Including printed material, exhibition organising, offline traditional marketing and anything and everything in between!


  • Tattoos by Hai
  • Concordia Business Improvement
  • The Abbey House, Abbotsbury
  • Odeo Flare - Modern alternative to pyrotechnic flares
  • Wyke Window Cleaning Services
  • Area 55 Tattoo Studio

My favourite type of Photography is of abandoned and generally derelict locations. These can range from Top Secret military bunkers, to a disused shop in a high street.

My passion, however, is bunkers. I love being underground and the more secret the bunker, the more exciting it is to photograph it!

  • Goat Ribcage
  • Australian Cave Waterfall
  • Australian Sunrise over Balmoral Beach
  • Sydney at night
  • Macro Flower on the Fleet Lagoon
  • Gravestone at Portland
  • Crab on Chesil Beach
  • Classroom in an abandoned  all girls school in Plymouth
  • Maggie the dog