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Building Operational Infrastructure From Scratch Inside A Growing Agency
When I joined HC Media Group as Chief Operating Officer in 2026, the agency already had a lot going for it. There was talent in the team, clients were being looked after and the business had a genuine appetite to grow. What I noticed quite quickly was that a lot of the work was being…
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Custom Event Listeners For Dynamic Web Interfaces
I started paying more attention to event listeners when I was building interfaces that changed after the page had already loaded. On a simple website, adding a click event to a button is usually straightforward. The page loads, the element exists, the event listener is attached and nothing particularly complicated happens afterwards. The problem starts…
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CSS Proportional Dimensions With Aspect-Ratio
I started using aspect-ratio properly after running into the same layout problem on several website builds. The issue was usually simple. An image, video embed or card needed to keep a consistent shape across different screen sizes, but I did not want to lock the layout to a fixed height. On desktop the section might…
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Websites, Batteries And The Small Decisions That Waste Energy
I started thinking more seriously about the environmental side of websites through performance work. Most website performance conversations begin in a fairly predictable place. A page is taking too long to load, images are heavier than they should be, JavaScript has grown over time or the site feels slower on a phone than it does…
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Why I Moved Away From Cloudflare Caching And Back To FastCGI
Earlier that week my website had been through two separate periods of downtime. One was caused by a caching issue and the other was caused by a wider Cloudflare outage. Neither incident caused any serious damage, however they did make me look again at how many services were sitting between the server and the person…
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From Timesheets to Project Visibility: Designing a Bespoke Internal System
Why I Built Pathfinder Analytics and What Happened After We Implemented It Pathfinder Analytics wasn’t originally intended to become a product. The thinking behind it started during my time at HC Media Group, where I was involved in a variety of projects across design, development, project delivery and internal systems. Like many growing agencies, we…
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Documentation Is The Part Of The Website Nobody Sees Until They Need It
A reflective article about the value of practical website documentation once a project has launched and new people need to maintain it.
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Password Security Is Boring Until It Is Not
A practical article about password handling, WordPress security defaults and why quiet security changes matter on real websites.
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Search Pages Are Starting To Feel Like Product Screens
A practical article about treating internal site search as a proper interface rather than a fallback page for visitors who could not find something.
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Small Forms Deserve More Care Than They Get
A practical article about contact forms, validation, error handling and the small interface details that affect real enquiries.
