Hi I’m Dave, a Web Designer & Front-end Developer based in Bristol.
I currently work at Simpleweb as a Front-end Developer.
I also write articles and work on open source projects.
If you’d like to chat just get in touch.
Garth is a stupidly simple theme for Jekyll, using the official Jekyll theme method. Garth can be used as a Jekyll theme gem or as a ‘forkable template’ using GitHub Pages.
Alembic is a starting point for Jekyll projects. Rather than starting from scratch, this boilerplate theme is designed to give you a starting point immediately that you can build upon.
As well as prototyping the BaseKit UI I also heavily contribute to the community. I created this documentation site using Jekyll in addition to a video course for Tuts+.
Anchor Themes is a site I created to showcase the best themes available for Anchor CMS. I designed, built and manage the site so that people can easily browse and use themes for Anchor CMS.
Bit Podcast is a podcast series featuring myself and Benjamin Reid as we discuss web design, development plus games & movies on the side. I also provided the design for the site.
Anchor Showcase is a spin-off site from Anchor Themes. I created it to showcase awesome sites built using Anchor CMS and I continue to manage the submissions to it.
An online portfolio of homes in the heart of London. I developed the front-end of the site and used WordPress as the CMS, this was in collaboration with the agency Six.
As part of the effect team I designed and built the homepage of the new site, using SVG elements and a responsive grid system of my own design.
A website build for the Lincolnshire County Council using WordPress as the CMS. This was in collaboration with POP Branding.
A freelance project for a family-run construction company. Despite the site being almost 5 years old I’m still very proud of it.