Nurdan Üçer hello@nurdanucer.com

Expert web designer & developer based in Athens, with two decades of experience & 100+ happy clients worldwide.

I create pixel-perfect websites, providing my clients with a smooth one-stop shop experience from art direction and branding strategy to testing and deployment.

Recent Projects

My design expertise covers art direction, branding strategy, rapid prototyping, custom WordPress theme design & development, and pixel-perfect PSD/Sketch to WordPress theme conversions. As a skilled developer, I also provide custom WordPress & WooCommerce applications, third-party API integrations, hosting consultancy, setup, migrations and configuration at any scale.

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NY-based Ronchess Capital Management was established to provide best-in-class capital management services to government and institutional clients in Nigeria. The RCM executive team approached me with a desire to build a single page web presence that conveyed their sophisticated approach and the remarkable backgrounds of their executive team.

Art Direction, Responsive Custom Theme Design

Luxembourg-based Synermesh provides consultancy to financial services industry across Europe. They wanted to create a responsive multilingual website that communicated their values and capabilities to their select clientele, while keeping a seamless integration with their third-party CRM application.

Art Direction, Responsive Custom Theme Design, Third Party API Integration, Gravity Forms, Multilingual

Melbourne-based English Language School Primus wanted to redesign their website to create a warm and welcoming online presence, building on their great online reputation. The fully responsive website now caters to the needs of their existing and prospective students, introducing campus environment, school services and available classes with an intuitive navigation and clean page layouts.

Art Direction, Responsive Custom Theme Design, Third Party API Integration

Award-winning audiovisual journalism hub Medyascope -which I have co-founded back in 2015- got a complete redesign before its 4th birthday. I streamlined the content-heavy landing page, created an intuitive navigation experience, and integrated a more responsive interface with faster load times. Contributed by over 200 journalists and broadcasting in 6 languages, Medyascope has been honored with 2016 Free Media Pioneer Award by International Press Institute, and 2017 Press Freedom Prize by Reporters Without Borders & TV5MONDE.

Brand Identity, Art Direction, Data Migration, Third Party API Integration

Leading poultry processing equipment provider Foodmate US, Inc. needed a complete redesign on their corporate website. The main objective was to create an attractive and consistent layout for all their existing content and to organize their rich product line in a coherent and accessible manner, while keeping the browsing experience light and flowing.

Art Direction, Responsive Custom Theme Design, Data Migration, Third Party API Integration

London-based travel health & safety company Clari Health wanted a travel blog feel to their website. Using their logo as a starting point, I created a fresh, vibrant color scheme, and a youthful theme for them. I used custom post types and search/filter screens for destination guide, travel health, and other sections, and integrated their third party booking system.

Art Direction, Responsive Custom Theme Design, Third Party API Integration, Multilingual

Swiss financial publishing house ns.publish reached out to me with complete design mock-ups which they needed developed into a custom theme to replace their existing website. The end result was a bilingual, fully responsive and minimal landing page, which featured different layouts and functionalities for various device sizes.

PSD to WordPress, Responsive Custom Theme Design, Third Party API Integration, Multilingual

Client Reviews

"Working with Nurdan has been an absolute pleasure. I was very impressed from the start with her abilities and professionalism, and she exceeded my initial expectations. I am very satisfied with our final project. She followed instructions exceedingly well and also had many suggestions and most importantly, she has the initiative and rare sense of logic that is priceless! I felt she was a part of the team, for sure. Would not hesitate to work with her again, in fact, I would be happy to, and look forward to working together again in the future."

"May I start off with the fact that Nurdan has not only become the go-to for my needs she has also become a friend; I can rely on her to successfully complete the job and execute it with flying colors. In business, it is rare that you can find someone that not only completes the job but does the best they can because they care about you and the product they are creating for you. Nurdan, I humbly say thank you for everything you have done previously and everything we will do together in the future!"

"Nurdan works to an extremely high standard and is without a doubt one of the finest developers that I have worked with. She has a good eye for design, communicates clearly and is a perfectionist at her craft. She is knowledgeable about the latest trends in the tech marketplace and goes above and beyond for her clients. Highly recommended."

"Nurdan is a total rockstar! She is really, really good, and went above and beyond our expectations in terms of the quality of her output. She's quite thoughtful, proactive, and professional, so communicating with her and getting the job done was a breeze. We were very satisfied with the final output as well. I would recommend her without reservations, and we definitely plan to work with her for our future engagements as well."

"Nurdan delivered excellent work for a full multi-lingual website based on WordPress. Deadlines were always respected and communication and feedback was very quick. Nurdan is an expert on all aspects of WordPress and integration with third party products. I would and will work with Nurdan on other projects."

"Nurdan is an excellent designer and developer. This is the second time I have worked with her, and I am extremely satisfied with the results. We asked her to work on some tricky aspects of our website (including integration with an external service using an API), and she did a stellar job. Everyone that I've shown the website to have been quite impressed. I'm excited to write this feedback and recommend her. Definitely coming back if I have other web design / development jobs in the future."

Work Process

I study your brief and listen to you

Ideally you will have a brief detailing your project requirements which I can examine. We can then have a phone/video meeting to discuss your goals & ideas in person.

I prepare an offer & project milestones

I will prepare an offer based on your requirements, and divide the project into separate milestones with time estimates for each. This will act as a guideline we can both follow.

I allocate a private staging area for you

If we agree on the project terms, I will create a private staging server for you, which will allow you to follow the entire process, and send me your feedback on each completed milestone.

I translate your vision into design

I will then create a live demo of your landing page using the materials & artwork you provide. I will make the revisions you require on this demo before I move on with the rest of the design & development process.

I guide you in all technical decisions

I will provide safe, tried and tested premium plugins for most of your functionality needs. If you need to make decisions regarding technical issues, such as hosting or CDN needs, I will guide you towards your best options.

I debug, optimize & deploy your website

At the end of our last milestone, I will test your website on different browsers and device sizes for any bugs & issues. I will then optimize all your assets, implement the necessary cache, and migrate the website to its final location.

About Nurdan*

Born and raised in Istanbul, I have been living in Athens, Greece most of my adult life. Here I co-founded my first web design agency back in 1998 and partnered it successfully for 10 years.

The following decade I took part in a couple of start-ups based out of Istanbul and served as their CTO, alongside freelance consulting on web technologies & design. Throughout this period, freelancing came forward as a more natural fit for me as I increasingly found independent work more rewarding than my corporate endeavors.

I love what I do, so my work takes up a large part of my life. I often spend my off hours trying to keep my know-how & skill set up-to-date and my perspective fresh. When I’m not in front of a computer, I read mostly non-fiction, watch mostly fiction, and enjoy long walks in the company of podcasts.

Technology has always been at the forefront of my journey as it consistently helps me expand my world, yet I believe in a simple, uncluttered way of life. I try to keep my communication, design and work process in line with that philosophy.

Even though I come from a full-stack development background, I became a true WordPress ambassador over the years, as it is arguably the ultimate reusable code ever written.

Powering 30% of all websites today, including The New Yorker, BBC America, Facebook Newsroom, Microsoft News, and even Sweden’s official website, it is a more secure, more accessible, and more time & cost efficient website back-end system than any one single developer can code & maintain.

Over the past 10 years I have created beautiful & robust WordPress powered websites for a myriad of happy clients.

* My name is pronounced Noor-DUHN

Let's build your next website together.

Whether you already have a design you want to bring to life, or you need help to decide on a direction yet, with my professional experience spanning over two decades, I will guide you through the entire process seamlessly.