Website design and development
I’m a WordPress developer and have been working with WordPress since 2006. I like to build fast, performant, easy to use websites with a low carbon footprint. I build custom WordPress themes and plugins from the ground up using HTML, modern CSS, Javascript, and PHP. I use git, node/npm, gulp, SCSS, and webpack. I can create Gutenberg blocks. And there’s always something new to learn.
I really appreciate all of the patience you’ve had, and all the work you’ve put in to get the site to where it is. Everyone at AEF is really pleased with it.
Lizzie Harrocks, Aviation Environment Federation
I’m feeling so much more confident about all this thanks to your expert help & also having you gently steer me in the right direction to just generally have a go! Actually starting to be quite excited about this new piece of work taking off instead of feeling overwhelmed.
Naomi Seager, Pranastar Yoga
Portfolio
Bristol Jazz Live
A website built to list forthcoming jazz gigs in the Bristol area and generally promote the vibrant jazz scene in this great city. Built in WordPress, the site pulls data from a public Google Calendar account for ease of management and uses Fullcalendar.js to format the events.
bristoljazzlive.co.uk
BruMing band
A website for the BruMing band, built with ruthless efficiency as a one-page website which weighs less than 1Mb and loads blindingly quickly.
www.bruming.co.uk
Leuser Ecosystem Action Fund
A website showcasing the extraordinary beauty of the Leuser Ecosystem and providing information about the group coordinating funding to protect it.
www.leuserfund.org
Pete Judge Music
Website for musician and composer extraordinaire Pete Judge. A lean, minimalist site that showcases the diversity of his career while also achieving 100% Lighthouse score for performance.
www.petejudgemusic.com
Costa Oeste Productions
I designed and built this website for Costa Oeste Productions an organisation which creates, produces and mediates musical projects in Portugal. The website uses custom fields to provide content in English and Portuguese.
costaoeste.pt
Environmental Paper Network Biomass Facility Map
I worked with the Environmental Paper Network and the Global Forest Coalition to produce a bespoke map pinpointing biomass facilities around the world. The map was produced using Open Street Maps, LeafletJS, and custom javascript, and converted to a plugin allowing it to be embedded in the EPN website.
environmentalpaper.org/tools-and-resources/mapping-bioenergy
The Unitarians
I worked with designers This Ain’t Rock and Roll to produce a WordPress block-based site that would change the image of the Unitarian community. I went on to build two companion sites (Worship Words and the Congregational Toolkit) as well as a simple, portable, easy-to-use WordPress theme that could be used by congregations to create their own websites.
www.unitarian.org.uk
Aviation Environment Federation
News and information site for the Aviation Environment Federation. I worked with their communications officer to reposition the organisation as a more publicly accessible campaigning organisation.
www.aef.org.uk
ICCA Consortium Self-Strengthening Process
This multi-lingual website was built for the ICCA Consortium to provide a template of guidance for indigenous groups looking to organise and connect. Performance was key because internet connectivity may be an issue for some of the groups using it – the homepage weighs in at just 115Kb and Lighthouse scores it 99% for performance.
ssprocess.iccaconsortium.org
Climate Yes
A website built from the ground up for performance to help a Christian Aid led campaign to urge climate action on behalf of faith groups worldwide. I worked as lead developer with Long White Digital.
climateyes.org
World Economics Association
I designed and built the WEA network, including the main website which features a system for maintaining membership subscriptions, a WordPress Multisite for online conferences, another for regional chapters, and online journals including Economic Thought. The latter incorporates an internal publishing system with a work-flow suitable for academic publishing.
www.worldeconomicsassociation.org
Michelson Morley
The website for my quartet.
https://michelsonmorley.com
Website Maintenance Services
I like to build long and trusting relationships with my clients and, as part of this, I look after websites as well as designing and building them. I’ve looked after some of my clients’ websites for 17 years!
For a very reasonable monthly fee, my maintenance service includes:
› Making sure your website is secure and free from malware
› Personally logging in at least once per month to make sure your website software is up to date and running smoothly
› Automatic monitoring services for minute-by-minute checking of availability
› Fixing any problems that might have occurred when website software is updated
› Making sure backups are being taken and checking the website can be recreated from a backup, just in case
› Performance scans to make sure your website still loads as fast as possible
› … and I’m always on hand if you need advice or have any problems
If you’re interested in talking to me about website design or development, or music, or football, or astronomy, or dogs, please: