WORK / WEB & DIGITAL
Websites and digital tools for clubs, small businesses and me.
Websites started as a side effect of wanting things to work properly. A club needed a better site. A small business had a personality its template was hiding. This site needed somewhere to live.
The common thread is refusing the template: working out what makes something different, then building around that.
A stock list that kept asking better questions until it became a personal parts intelligence system — what a part is, what it fits, and whether I have one with me.
A notepad quick enough that opening it never feels like work, with all the engineering that makes it trustworthy kept underneath the interface.
It started as somewhere to organise revision notes. It became a place to practise networking rather than read about it.
Apparently the website needed a page about building the website. We're through the looking glass now.
A second independent wellbeing business, and a proper test of what actually transfers between two projects in the same sector.
Giving an independent wellness business a digital home with as much personality as the real thing.
A beauty salon asked for a more modern website. It is becoming a small business system for bookings, customers, cancellations and repeat business.
Turning an ID card into something a customer can actually verify, instead of something they are asked to trust.
A beer-league hockey site built as though you have found an old computer and the Raiders operating system is still running.
What began as a better club website became a digital platform for running an entire netball club.
Player #95, and the club's media and digital lead: matchday graphics, photography, sponsor materials and the retro Windows 95 inspired club website.
Field Notes documenting the ideas, decisions and lessons behind this area of work.
Chuck Keith treats networking as something you can build, break and explore rather than memorise. He is one of the reasons I started chasing the CCNA, and a large part of why this site is a workshop rather than a CV.
There is something about the 1950s that has always sung to me. Not the decade itself — their idea of the future, and the confidence that somebody would go and build it.
Can small businesses escape the template, subscription and sameness trap? An experiment in websites that feel like the business and actually belong to it.
Why knowing who to ask can be just as important as knowing the answer.
Understanding the network behind the technology — and turning "I think this works" into "I know why this works".
From Bracknell to Widnes, with a few detours along the way.
I went to watch my daughter play. Somehow I ended up with a whistle.
From lubricants and thread locker to wipes, gloves and an apparently endless appetite for PH2 bits, these are the unsung heroes living in my van.