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A designer who can build, and handle the tech most designers can't.
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Independent. I design, build, and set up your website end to end, from the first sketch to the plain-English guide you keep.
Most website projects have a gap. On one side, designers who make beautiful work but can't touch the technical side. On the other, the analytics and setup people who can plan all that but can't build the site it lives on. Work falls into that gap, and what falls hardest is the part that tells you whether the site is actually working.
I do both sides. I design and build the site and set up the measuring, the cookie banner, and the contact forms myself. Nothing gets handed across a boundary where it can break, because there is no boundary. That is why this very site can show you its own visitor events as they happen.
Who I build for
Local shops and small businesses who just want a website that works and actually brings in customers, and marketing teams who need the tracking done right. Either way, you don't have to understand any of the technical parts. Explaining them simply is part of the job.
Where I come from
8 years building and measuring websites in corporate roles across large hospitality and manufacturing companies, where a small mistake shows up in a boardroom report. I have also been the client who inherited a site that couldn't answer a simple question. That is what I build against now, for businesses of every size.
How I work
Plain language first. Fixed scope. No jargon thrown at you. I would rather ship five pages that tell you the truth than fifteen that just look busy. You own everything at the end.
tools
- GA4
- Google Tag Manager
- HubSpot
- Adobe Analytics
- Segment
- BigQuery
Don't recognise these? That's fine, they're just the tools. What matters is your site works and you can see that it does.