Frontend Specialist & Technical Consultant
I fix slow, clunky websites and stop new builds turning into bloated disasters.
Collection of Websites
For freelance work, I focus on consulting and audits. I occasionally take on full builds when the scope and budget make sense, but my day-to-day is senior frontend at Nurtur Ltd.
David James Estate Agents
High-traffic estate agency site kept performant despite complex content and integrations.
The ESTAS
Awards platform site for property professionals where reliability actually matters.
X Global Group
Took ownership of the build, rebuilt key features, and navigated shifting requirements to get it over the line.
Hound & Porter
Boutique estate agency site focused on clear listings and a friendlier experience.
Peach Estate Agents
Local Swindon estate agency site built to feel human, not corporate, while still being fast and easy to maintain.
Popham Farm Alpaca Trekking
From no brand or online presence to a clear, well designed brochure site.
JMA Cleaning Solutions
Lean local business site built to be fast, simple, and easy to update.
Eleventy8
Personal portfolio and playground for modern frontend workflows.
Selected Case Studies
A deeper look into a few projects where I solved complex problems, not just pushed pixels.
Full brand creation and digital launch for new business owners with no online presence.
Experienced tradesperson with an outdated, off-brand website needed a simple, professional upgrade.
Needful Things
by Stephen King
Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestseller about a mysterious store than can sell you whatever you desire—but not without exacting a terrible price in return. The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is as peculiar as the little curio shop that’s just opened for business here. Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something for everyone out on display at Needful Things…interesting items that run the gamut from worthless to priceless. Nothing has a price tag in this place, but everything is certainly for sale. The heart’s desire for any resident of Castle Rock can easily be found among the curiosities…in exchange for a little money and—at the specific request of Leland Gaunt—a whole lot of menace against their fellow neighbors. Everyone in town seems willing to make a deal at Needful Things, but the devil is in the details. And no one takes heed of the little sign hanging on the wall: Caveat emptor. In other words, let the buyer beware…
Frontend Specialist &
Technical Consultant
Currently, Senior Frontend Developer at Nurtur Ltd.
I've spent decades shipping and rescuing real-world sites, from old template stacks to modern React builds and the WordPress clunkers in between. I'm not here to drown you in jargon; I'm here to bridge the gap between design and engineering with clean code and a low tolerance for over-engineered nonsense.
Resourcefulness beats theory every day of the week. I lean on smart tools (including AI) and experience to move fast without trashing maintainability. You're not paying for my struggle, you're paying for my judgment and a finished product that works.
Plugins & Custom Tools
A handful of tools I've built to solve real problems on real projects. Some ship as WordPress plugins, others live as local scripts or browser add-ons, all of them exist because clicking around by hand was a waste of time.
WP Site Sweeper
Utility plugin that keeps legacy WordPress installs clean, fast, and free from plugin cruft.
NeonNoir
A focused image-prompt generator for moody, cinematic visuals, built to cut out endless prompt fiddling.
FireGPT
Firefox add-on that wires ChatGPT straight into search, so I can analyse pages and draft responses without context-switching.
Gravity Forms Extender
Adds smarter validation, useful merge tags, and proper booking fields to Gravity Forms instead of hacking every form by hand.
Puppeteer Website Audit
Prototype SEO and content audit tool that crawls sites, spots issues, and uses AI to suggest fixes.
Brand Assets Helper
Bulk image resize script that spits out favicons, social images, and brand assets in one go, instead of faffing in a GUI.
The Gear
If you care about gear, here's the junk I use to get work done. If you don't, you can safely ignore this bit.
The tools don't make the work good, but they do get out of the way so I can focus on the hard bits.
Hardware
- MacBook Air M3
- Samsung M8 Smart Monitor
- Logi MX Keys Mini
- Logi MX Master 2S
- Sony WH-1000XM5
- Galaxy Z Fold 7
- Apple Airpods Pro 2
- Galaxy Watch 8
- You get the idea
Development
- Antigravity
- Terminal
- GitHub GUI
- Affinity
- Brave Browser
- Figma
- You get the picture
Productivity
- BugHerd
- Monday.com
- Google Workspace
- Trello
- Microsoft Teams
- Grayjay
- Google Gemini
- Apple Music
- Email, still effective
Desk
- High gloss white desk
- A laptop stand
- A slate drinks coaster
- A glass of water
- A phone stand
- That's enough desk detail
Let's build something
that's not utterly awful.
If you've got a project that matters and a realistic budget, get in touch. I don't do hard sales pitches or follow-up spam; you either want it or you don't. I enjoy finding solutions; just don't hire me to second-guess every decision I make.
I usually start with paid consulting sessions and project reviews at around ÂŁ100 per hour rather than free "pick your brain" sessions.