Selected work

Work.

Twenty years of building for the web, across three studios. Client work, plus the tools, products, and dashboards I build for myself.

  1. Studio

    PerfectWebsite.Design

    Perfectly developed websites for small businesses on a flat monthly fee, no upfront cost or contract, with hosting, SEO, accessibility, and upkeep all included.

    2026

  2. Tool

    Mission Control

    One dashboard that pulls all six of my apps into a single view: three business dashboards plus finance, fitness, and recipes. Built to read every app's data from one place.

    2026

  3. Tool

    Element Library

    The library I build every PerfectWebsite.Design site from: 90-plus production-ready sections (heroes, pricing, FAQs, galleries, team, and more) in flat PHP, vanilla JS, and lean CSS. No framework, no build step, no page builder, made to assemble fast and read cleanly by AI.

    2026

  4. Project

    Recipes

    A recipe catalog I built for me and my family. Each starts as a PDF clipping that a Python build turns into a searchable page, filed by category and by who it came from, with the original PDF downloadable on every one.

    2026

  5. Tool

    Financial Dashboard

    A self-hosted personal finance dashboard I built to see everything in one place: net worth, accounts, assets, debts, income, and recurring bills, plus a cash-runway read and monthly snapshots that track how it all moves over time.

    2026

  6. Tool

    Website Development Dashboard

    The internal dashboard I run my web business from: sites, sales, tasks, recurring work, uptime and performance monitoring, analytics, finances, and a shared inbox, all in one place with an AI assistant and push alerts.

    2026

  7. Project

    Fitness & Health Tracker

    A self-hosted fitness PWA I built for me and my friends: food, lifts, cardio, weight, and meds, with an AI logger and a dungeon RPG that levels up only when you actually train. Think Habitica, for the gym.

    2026

  8. Product

    Website Form Checker

    A SaaS I built that tests a site's contact forms on a schedule and flags the day one breaks, instead of months later when the leads have already dried up. For small businesses that live on inbound forms.

    2026

  9. Studio

    Carefree Creative

    The studio I co-founded in 2018, now serving 200-plus clients. The whole stack for small businesses: web, e-commerce, SEO, branding, graphics, and photography.

    2018

  10. Product

    Stock Photography

    Thousands of photographs from 49 states and 11 countries, shot on the ground and from the air with a Part 107-licensed drone, across 545-plus sessions and licensed for sale, distribution, and prints.

    2018

  11. Tool

    Site Manager

    A WordPress plugin I built to run all of Carefree's client sites from one place: updates, backups, uptime, and security across the whole portfolio. Our own take on ManageWP.

    2018

  12. Studio

    Design X

    Ten years of sites, custom CMSs, online stores, and social media management for small businesses, working closely with each owner from the first sales call to launch.

    2008

  13. Studio

    Webspasm

    A community-driven social bookmarking platform I built: speed dial meets Wikipedia meets Google. Every topic or piece of media got its own page, hand-curated with links to everything relevant across the web.

    2012

  14. Product

    Just Network

    A network of community-driven sites where users uploaded whatever was shareable: jokes, riddles, pick-up lines. SEO brought the traffic, AdSense paid the bills. Very 2012.

    2012

Eras

  1. 2026 →

    AI development.

    Heads-down and building. This year alone: a stack of dashboards, a pile of self-hosted apps, and a SaaS with paying users, most of it shipped solo. The tools finally caught up to the ideas. Still being written.

    • Claude API
    • ChatGPT API
    • PHP + SQLite
    • PWAs
    • Self-hosted apps
    • SaaS

  2. 2017 – 2025

    WordPress + Photography + Travel.

    Web work became a profession. I co-founded Carefree Creative and spent the better part of a decade building it into a full-service studio. I hired and led the team that ran it, and took on whatever a small business needed: design, development, e-commerce, SEO, branding, print, and marketing. Hundreds of sites, thousands of photographs, and a map full of pins.

    • WordPress + ACF
    • Custom plugins
    • WooCommerce
    • Shopify
    • SEO
    • Film + digital photography
    • Product photography
    • Aerial / Part 107 drone
    • Lightroom + Photoshop
    • Graphic design
    • Team management
    • Client management
    • Client acquisition
    • Business operations
    • Project management
    • Marketing strategy

  3. 2009 – 2017

    Code, clients, and QuickBooks.

    Started taking money for sites, mostly for small businesses. Custom PHP: dashboards, custom CMSs, client CRMs, e-commerce storefronts, Google AdSense sites, anything someone would pay for. Learning every wrong way to build something before finding the right one. And learning to run a business while I was at it.

    • MySQL
    • jQuery
    • Sass
    • Joomla
    • Drupal
    • cPanel
    • Bootstrap
    • Responsive design
    • Web 2.0 gloss
    • Warrior Forum
    • oDesk
    • AdSense niche-site hustle
    • QuickBooks
    • Bookkeeping
    • Managing a team
    • IT consulting
    • Digital marketing

  4. 2002 – 2009

    Netscape, Geocities, & IE6 hacks.

    Discovered HTML the way most kids my age discovered video games, and never really stopped. Built websites for game guilds, ran my own phpBB forums and MediaWikis. The web was small, weird, and yours to figure out.

    • Dreamweaver
    • Notepad++
    • Macromedia Flash
    • Photoshop
    • Geocities
    • Netscape
    • HTML tables
    • IE6 hacks
    • <marquee> and <blink>
    • Guestbooks