About

I've been building websites since 1997, starting with a version of Dreamweaver that came on a cover-mounted CD on MacUser magazine. Remember those?

Back then, layout meant tables — nested three or four deep — and navigation meant slicing up images in Photoshop and stitching them back together with invisible GIFs. It worked, in the way that duct tape works.

From there it was float-based layouts, the endless battle with clearfix, and then the mobile revolution that made us rethink everything. Responsive design went from a clever idea to the only way to build. Bootstrap arrived and made 12-column grids feel like a solved problem — until every site started looking identical.

These days the tools are genuinely good. CSS does in one line what used to take a JavaScript library. But the web also got heavier — frameworks that ship megabytes of JavaScript for pages that are essentially text and images.

That's why we use Astro. It defaults to zero client-side JavaScript, optimises images automatically, and makes building accessible, fast sites the path of least resistance rather than an afterthought.