About

A safe pair of hands for your web projects for over 15 years

A freelance developer that agencies continue to come back to.

I'm Dan, a freelance web developer based in Bournemouth. For fifteen years I've built websites and web applications in WordPress and Laravel for agencies, household brands and growing businesses.

Agency-trained

I started out agency-side, and it shaped how I still work. Deadlines are real. Communication matters as much as code. And the site has to be something the client can run themselves long after launch, not something that only makes sense to the person who built it.

That applies whether I'm your whole dev team or an invisible extension of yours. Agencies bring me in under their own name when they're at capacity or need Laravel depth they don't have in-house. Businesses come to me directly when they want one person who'll take ownership rather than a ticket queue.

Built on long lasting relationships

Most of my work comes from people I've worked with before: agencies who return project after project, and clients whose sites I've looked after for years. I'd like to think that says more than any portfolio page can.

Along the way that's included work for VWCV, SSE, Coeliac UK and Utilita Energy, where I build and maintain a suite of Laravel applications used across the business every day.

If that sounds like the kind of developer you're after, get in touch.

How I work

  1. 01

    Plain-speaking. Honest estimates, no jargon and no surprises on the invoice.

  2. 02

    Built to hand over. Clean code and CMS setups your team can actually run.

  3. 03

    Reliable. If I say Friday, it's Friday. Agencies stake their reputation on it.

Brands I've built for

  • Utilita Energy logo
  • Audi Approved logo
  • Coeliac UK logo
  • Loan.co.uk logo
  • Upperdog logo
  • Mad River logo
  • CHS logo

The toolkit

What I build with, day to day

Build

  • WordPress & Gutenberg
  • Laravel & PHP
  • JavaScript / Alpine / Vue
  • Tailwind CSS
  • WooCommerce

Workflow

  • Git & GitHub Actions
  • DDEV / Docker
  • PHPUnit & Pest
  • Figma
  • Your project management tool

Hosting & ops

  • Cloudflare
  • AWS / DigitalOcean
  • Laravel Forge
  • Uptime & error monitoring
  • Automated backups

Sound like someone you could work with?

Contact me