Stef Dawson
Content Specialist at Textpattern
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStef Dawson is a content specialist and seasoned web developer with 16 years’ experience helping local businesses find and amplify their brand voice through strategic content, SEO and striking visuals. Based in Leeds, she combines hands-on CMS development (long-standing contributor to the open-source Textpattern project) with practical product documentation and digital-signage expertise to turn technical detail into customer-facing stories. Her background spans manufacturing quality data, IT, web design and graphics, giving her a rare ability to interrogate processes, ask the right questions and craft content grounded in real operational insight. Stef prefers face-to-face discovery sessions and a pen-and-notepad approach, then executes end-to-end—from copy and design to scheduling and publishing—so clients can focus on delivering value. She’s equally at home extending CMS functionality (notably adding UI components to Textpattern) as she is creating shareable newsletters, brochures and social campaigns that build brand ambassadors.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng Hons), Electronics, Communication and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng Hons), Electronics, Communication and Computer Engineering at University of Bradford
Github Skills (7)
content-management-system10
cms10
php10
web-development10
cm10
user-interface9
html8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
textpattern/textpattern
Jul 2009 - Dec 2022
A flexible, elegant, fast and easy-to-use content management system written in PHP.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 1 review, 1830 commits in 13 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Stef's commits focused on implementing tag collections and radio sets within the Textpattern CMS, including support for a RadioSet with a RadioSet implementation. The changes involved creating PHP files for new widgets, such as TagCollection, Radio, RadioSet, Label, and YesNoRadioSet. This indicates a focus on developing and extending the CMS's functionality and user interface components.
cmscms-frameworkmanagement-systemphpcmf
Bloke/smd_tags
Oct 2014 - Jun 2020
A Textpattern CMS plugin for unlimited, structured taxonomy across content types.
Contributions:6 releases, 39 commits, 7 PRs in 5 years 9 months
cmsplugin-cmsunlimitedduplicatestructured
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