Category: Web Development

For The Facts

1st September 2024

Imagine this scenario: you’ve just finished your GCSEs, A Levels or university degree. Now it’s time to figure out what you want to do next. So you start doing research online for what options you have. But to get all the information you need, it takes hours of searching and reading various articles and pages. […]

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Gumdrop Social

15th July 2024

The main social media platforms aren’t working for us. They’re addictive, manipulative and exploitative, keeping you scrolling for hours on end so you see as many adverts as possible. Posts made by family and friends are replaced with posts from strangers, and Facebook and Instagram (among others) are starting to become more like TikTok. But […]

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Introducing Ballyhoo, a block-ready minimalist WordPress theme

8th November 2021

Ballyhoo, a free block-ready minimalist WordPress theme, has been released onto the WordPress theme directory today. I have been working on the Ballyhoo theme in various forms since 2018, so it is a relief to finally have it on the WordPress theme directory. For those who don’t know what a WordPress theme is, it is […]

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Aircraft Buyer – Exceeding Aviation Expectations

15th September 2021

Today, the largest website I have worked on so far is being launched. Aircraft Buyer is a website that allows people to buy and sell aircraft and aviation services. I have been working on this website since June 2021. This website has been built for a friend’s new online business, so I’m not going to […]

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New Homework Help For Kids web design

18th April 2020

After months of work, the new Homework Help For Kids website and app design has finally been launched. This is the first time both the website and the app (Android version) have had the same design. This was the hardest website design that I’ve done so far. Homework Help For Kids is the website that […]

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New Mr Red Blob website design

2nd December 2019

At the beginning of 2017, I launched a website for my YouTube channel, The Adventures of Mr Red Blob. I had copied a design from W3Schools. Whilst it looked good, I still felt that it lacked the personality that I wanted for the website. A few months later, I redid the website using Bootstrap (a […]

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New photography portfolio

22nd December 2018

Since I finished my mock exams, I have been working on a new portfolio for all of my photography. And it is now ready to view here. Some of you may be wondering, “Why is he making a new photography portfolio? He already has one.” Well, you’re about to find out! Better design My brand-new […]

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How I made my website

9th June 2018

A few people have asked me now how I made my website since I launched it a few months ago. Well, I haven’t really known how to answer that question. Until now. A whole lot of code Now, I have used code to create all of my portfolio pages. I learnt HTML (used to specify […]

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