My Tech Stack
"It's a poor craftsman that blames his tools" while an expert craftsman picks the right tools for the job.
Custom Website Development
The software and services I use for custom website development
- Extend Bricks and WordPress with sophisticated web forms.Add custom data types.A great system for adding animations to your website.
- Turns WordPress from a blogging platform into a content management system.With ACF, creating and managing reusable content is no longer a hassle.
- Having a CSS framework ensures a consistent and manageble web design.Core Framework makes it easy to manage all your web design colors, spacing and other key elements.
- Makes it easy to build fast, accessible, and mobile-friendly websites.Total control over the code and output.
- Incredibly flexible and can be customized for for nearly any need.The world's most popular system for building websites.More resources than any other system.
Local SEO
The tools and services I use for local SEO.
- A privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.Track all the basics such as page views and visitors.Track custom events and UTM tracking.Build robust, actionable reports.
- The single most important SEO tool I use, if I could only have one, it would be the Screaming Frog SEO Spider.No better tool for fully understanding the state of your website.Also very helpful for competitor research.
Website Maintenance Plans
The tools and services I use for website maintenance plans.
- Use Cloudflare to speed up your website with their Content Delivery Network (CDN).Improve your website's security using the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall to help secure your website.Secure your contact forms from Spam with Cloudflare's Turnstile system.
Custom Email for Small Businesses
The software and services I use for custom email services for small businesses.
- Thanks to spammers, sending email from your website has never been more dificult.An SMTP service provider ensures your website emails are reliably delivered and don't wind up in the spam folder.