Profiles

Worked with hand-coded websites since the start of the web (literally – I developed sites for the University courses I taught, which were viewable in the very first browser came out of CERN), and then started to use Drupal and Mambo (and hence Joomla after the fork of Mambo) to code up Department websites for the Computer Science Department I lectured in. I didn’t like WordPress initially because so much of the backend required more technical confidence for others to maintain it, and so continued to use Joomla. As WordPress developed its ecosystem and required less technical expertise for others to use, I started to use WordPress for sites where the complex site structure supported by Joomla or Drupal wasn’t necessary. More recently, because non-tech people maintain the sites I develop, I’ve stuck more with WordPress. I’ve developed WordPress Themes, Plugins, Shortcodes and Blocks – most for individual projects but now sharing a few via the plugin directory.