Thirty-odd years of building things for the web, mostly for other people. By name they include Boral’s Australian site and its collection of second brand sites, Woodsolutions, Colorbond/Truecore, Dementia Australia, Commonwealth Games, the marriage equality vote info site, Queensland Family and Child Commission, University of NSW’s collection of websites, Travel Massive, KAS Australia, Freedom Road Travel, TfNSW open data site, Luna Park and quite a few others. Most have since been rebuilt in different technologies, so no links.

These are the ones I built for me.

Phrond tools

Small, single-purpose browser tools.

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Draw

Live

Quick SVG edits without firing up Inkscape. Hooks for editing assets straight from your localhost vibe coded nonsense.

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Publish

Live

Newsletter layout for people losing MS Publisher. Clean up incoming articles, pin what carries over between editions.

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Annotate

Live

Put a circle around something in a photo without it looking bad. Also captions. That's all it does.

Placeholder screenshot

Fill that empty image space with something worth looking at.

Family

Sites I build and look after for the family.

Peter Stanley screenshot

Author site for historian Professor Peter Stanley. Forty-odd books and counting.

Stancartoons screenshot

My father's cartoons, new and archived.

Content sites

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Photographic Dictionary

Live since 2009

Common words illustrated with curated photos, now with activities and games.

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Photographic Dictionary's spinoff, where the photos with cats in get their own showcase.

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Giraffian

Archive, since 2002

Children's jokes, cartoons and activities from an earlier era of the web.

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Data Platform

Live

Ranking and analytics over large volumes of third-party data, with visitor-driven search and visualisations.

In progress

Not live yet. Amazing what you can do when you don't have a job.

Decorative separators

In development

Interface elements as math. Borders, corners and separators with flowers, gears, swooshes and whiplashes.

Web design by feel

In development

Browser game

In development

Gem generator

In development

Gems, crystals and rocks.