Custom website builds
A clean, fast site designed around your brand and built on a modern stack — Astro, Next.js, or whatever genuinely fits. No bloated page builders, no monthly platform fees forever, no compromise on performance.
Modern websites, built carefully, for Nova Scotia businesses.
Custom-built websites and honest audits, delivered by one person who actually answers your email. Recent NSCC IT Programming honours graduate bringing rigorous engineering practice to small-business sites — no template kits, no agency markup, no mystery Google rankings.
— What I offer
Services
Website rebuilds & redesigns
Take a slow, outdated, or unindexable site and turn it into something you're proud to send clients. For my Work-Integrated Learning placement, my team audited NSCC's eCampus learning portal — documenting 21 WCAG accessibility violations and a 6.6 MB initial payload — then designed and prototyped a static Astro replacement. The same audit-and-rebuild approach scales down cleanly to small-business sites.
Performance & Core Web Vitals
If your site loads slowly on a phone, you're losing visitors before they even read your headline. I audit what's actually slowing things down — render-blocking scripts, unoptimised images, third-party bloat — and fix it measurably, with before-and-after Lighthouse numbers you can verify.
Accessibility audits & fixes
WCAG AA compliance isn't just a legal box-check — it makes your site usable for everyone, including the 1-in-5 Canadians with some form of disability. I'll identify contrast failures, missing labels, keyboard traps, and screen-reader issues, then fix them without changing your design.
Local SEO foundations
The technical groundwork that lets Google actually find and rank you: sitemap submission, structured data, Open Graph cards, meta descriptions, and Search Console setup. I won't promise top rankings (nobody honestly can), but I'll make sure you're properly discoverable.
Ongoing care & edits
For sites I've built or rebuilt, I offer flat-rate monthly maintenance — updates, content edits, small feature additions. No surprise invoices, no "wait three weeks for a tweak." Cancel anytime.
— How we work together
A clear process, no mystery.
- 01
Discovery & free review
Send me a link to your current site (or a description of what you need). I'll come back with an honest assessment: what's working, what's costing you visitors, and what's worth doing first. No obligation, no sales pressure.
- 02
Scope & quote
Once we've talked about your goals, I write up a clear scope with a fixed price and timeline. You see exactly what's included and what isn't. No padding for "discovery hours" you don't get to see.
- 03
Build, with you in the loop
I build it with regular check-ins so you see progress and can redirect before anything is locked in. You're working directly with the developer — no account manager, no game of telephone.
- 04
Launch & handover
Launch day comes with documentation: where everything lives, how to make basic edits, what to do if something breaks. You own the domain, the hosting, the code. If you want me to handle ongoing care, that's an option. If not, you walk away with everything you need.
— Why work with me
A real developer, not a template seller.
You work directly with the developer
No account manager filtering your feedback. No agency markup. The person you message is the person writing your code.
This site is my work
The portfolio you're reading right now is my own build — same stack, same care, same approach I'd bring to your site. Click around, check the case studies, view source if you want. The quality is verifiable.
Performance and accessibility, built in
Not retrofitted at the end as an afterthought. Modern stack, real Core Web Vitals, WCAG AA contrast and labels — these are the starting point, not the upsell.
Documented decisions
Every architectural decision I make on your site is something I can explain in plain language. Look at the case studies on this portfolio — same approach you'll get for your business.
You own everything
Your domain. Your hosting account. Your source code. No proprietary lock-in, no "if you leave us, you lose your site." If we part ways, you keep the site running on your own.
Halifax-local, easy to reach
Based in Eastern Passage. Same time zone, same coffee shops. I pick up the phone, I answer email the day you send it, and a meeting in person is genuinely an option for Halifax-area businesses.
— Recent work
Projects I can walk you through.
Two projects from my recent NSCC training that show how I work. Neither was a paid commercial engagement — I'm honest about that — but both involved real audits, real architecture decisions, and real engineering deliverables for honours credit. Click through for the full case studies.
School capstone · Real client
Tallow Bliss Skin Care
A React/TypeScript e-commerce storefront I built as a school capstone for a small skincare business in Antigonish. Tailwind v4 dark-mode architecture, TSDoc documentation across 81 files, Formspree integration for transactional inquiries. The shop has since closed and the site was a proof-of-concept that never went live publicly — but the build remains a fair demonstration of the polish I'd bring to your storefront.
Read the case study →Work-Integrated Learning placement
NSCC eCampus Website Redesign
Senior developer and architect on a four-person team that audited and prototyped a replacement for NSCC's eCampus learning portal during my WIL placement. We documented 21 WCAG accessibility violations and a 6.6 MB initial payload on the existing site, then designed and built a static-first Astro alternative. Submitted to NSCC as a deliverable.
Read the case study →— Receipts
This site is the demo.
Every claim above is testable against the page you're reading. These numbers come from this site's production build — and the best audit is the one you run yourself: open DevTools, pick the Lighthouse tab, and run it on this page right now.
41 KB HTML + CSS, this page
Measured from the build output (11 KB gzipped over the wire).
Smaller than most sites' cookie banner.
0 KB Render-blocking JavaScript
No external script touches the critical path. ~1 KB of inline
JavaScript guards against unstyled-content flash and syncs the
chrome nav. Another ~10 KB gzipped of deferred JavaScript
follows for view transitions and scroll reveals. The cyan particle
background is a separate WebGL bundle dynamic-imported at browser
idle time — and skipped entirely under reduced motion.
100% Static, pre-rendered pages
No application servers to slow down or fall over — every page is
built ahead of time and served from an edge CDN.
Self-hosted Fonts, scripts, everything
No third-party CDNs, no tracking cookies, no analytics following you
around. View source is encouraged.
Ready to build a site that earns its keep?
Send me a message about your business and what you need. I'll reply with a clear next step and an honest review of your current site — no pressure, no obligation.
Get in touch