About This Site
Colophon
Development
This site was originally painstakingly hand-coded over a period of five-to-six weeks working in the evenings and weekends in the Autumn of 2017, and regularly maintained since to keep it up-to-date.
Hardware & Software
When I started building the site, I was using a mid-2015 15-inch 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 MacBook Pro with Retina Display, loaded with 16Gb of RAM and 1TB Flash Storage running macOS Sierra.
My current set-up (as of winter 2022) is a 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro (2.3Ghz 8-Core Intel Core i9) with 32Gb of RAM and 1TB Flash storage, running macOS Ventura 13.5.2.
I use the excellent Sublime Text as my text editor, which is a popular choice amongst developers and also use MAMP Pro as a self-contained server environment for testing.
For graphics work, I use Adobe Photoshop and/or Adobe Illustrator, part of the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.
Frameworks
Due to original time constraints in getting an online presence established, this site is a heavily customised version of the Pages UI framework, which I used as a foundation to build from.
Pages UI itself is based on the Bootstrap framework and, as a result, this site is fully responsive.
Responsive Design
This responsive website will adjust its layout and formatting to render appropriately according to your device's screen size. Try resizing your browser window or view this site across different devices. It's almost like magic!
Future Plans
I am currently planning to re-write this website in Bootstrap 5 or Tailwind CSS. Hopefully work on this should start sometime in late 2023.