Monkstown Paving and Landscaping
Monkstown Paving and Landscaping is a family-owned business specializing in premium driveways, patios, and garden transformations across Dublin and surrounding counties. They needed a professional, SEO-optimized website with extensive photo and video galleries to showcase their craftsmanship and attract new customers.
I built a comprehensive site featuring individual service pages for each offering (driveways, porcelain paving, pergolas, garden walls, etc.), organized photo galleries by project type, and a dedicated video gallery. The site includes an integrated contact form for quote requests, a reviews section highlighting five-star testimonials, and clear calls-to-action throughout the user journey.
The website achieves near-perfect Lighthouse scores across performance, accessibility, and SEO, ensuring fast load times and excellent search engine visibility. Built with 11ty for optimal performance, the site is fully mobile-responsive and has helped the business generate consistent leads and showcase their portfolio of completed projects.
Pitch A Friend - Ireland
Pitch A Friend is a fun, welcoming event that launched in Ireland in 2024, where friends give 3-minute presentations pitching their single friends to an audience. The event needed a clean, engaging website where users could buy tickets, send in pitch submissions, and read event information.
Working with the founder Gráinne, I designed a modern, mobile-responsive site that captures the fun and friendly spirit of the events. The site features a clear user journey from learning about the concept, to booking tickets, to submitting pitches via an integrated form system. Key sections include event details, testimonials from attendees, an FAQ section, and prominent call-to-action buttons for ticket purchases.
The website showcases the brand colours, custom design elements and both light mode and dark mode. Since launching, the site has successfully supported multiple sold-out events and helped connect singles across Ireland while celebrating the power of friendship.
Irish Slang App
I started creating this app in early 2022 as a side project to help me learn some of the technologies I was using in my new job. The app reached no.1 in the Irish charts in its category, and maintains a 5 Star average rating. I continue to add new features and content.
Tech stack includes Pug, Vue, Nuxt, and SCSS. By utilising Capacitor, Xcode and Android Studio and by tinkering with the CSS, I was able to make this web app look and feel like a native mobile app.
It contains over 500 Irish slang words, along with explanations, audio/video clips and images, and a search function. There are quizzes and games to test your knowledge, and videos for educational and entertainment purposes.
By utilising local storage, the app saves your favourite quotes, quiz scores and preferences.
The app is primarily designed for phones and tablets, but can be used on desktops too. It is available for free download on the Apple App Store here and on the Google Play Store here.
Hot Chip Cookies
A Covid-inspired startup, Hot Chip cookies originated in Dublin and are now sold all over Ireland. As demand for online orders grew, there was an increasing need for a website with a simple but capable cart system and a smooth checkout process. I decided to move the site from Wordpress / wooCommerce to Shopify.
This move coincided with the company's re-brand. I received a PDF from the in-house designer with the company's new logo, brand colours and slogans. With this info, I set about designing a site which would showcase the cookies as much as possible, but also make it easy for customers to find the info they need.
I utilised some custom liquid code where the theme needed to be edited, third party apps to allow for a variety of order types, customised e-mails and some photoshop for the png images. Online orders have been flooding in and customers have been very happy with the new site and streamlined ordering process.
City View Roofing
Before we got in touch, City View Roofing had been operating for 25 years, but had never had any internet presence, not even a Facebook page! We knew creating them a nice, modern site would help bring them into the modern world, and bring in lots of new clients.
We mocked up a stylish design using Figma, presented it to them and got started on building a site from scratch. As they had never been online before, we had to work hard at writing engaging, original copy, tactically using stock images along with the few mobile camera shots they had, and conveying the business as well-established and professional.
Within a week we had built a site that looked great, loaded quickly, gave all the essential info about the company, and scored extremely well in performance tests in tools such as Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights. The site is fully responsive, SEO-friendly, highly accessible to all users, and has some design features that are rarely seen in small business websites, such as a dark mode.
Central Landscaping
Whilst searching for businesses in need of help, we noticed that Central Landscaping had an up-to-date Facebook page, active Instagram profile, and plenty of positive reviews, but their website was down. We gave them a call and they said they'd had issues with their old site and the developer wasn't answering their calls or emails. We said we'd love to help and had a chat about the company and their goals, then agreed on a price and got started on a design.
In many ways, Central Landscaping were the ideal client to work with, as they already had images, testimonials and some info about their history and services. This sped up the development as we could focus mainly on the design and performance of the website.
We looked at many landscaping websites for design inspiration and tried to make the site stand out from the generic, cookie-cutter templates that many small businesses use. We created a new logo from scratch, as their old, red coloured logo didn't fit in with the theme of the site. We sent over an initial mock-up on Figma and made changes where asked.
The site is highly performant and scores nearly perfectly on a Lighthouse audit. There are links to the company's social media accounts, and links for customers to leave Facebook/Google reviews. The company now has a site that represents their brand and values well, and this should lead to much more converted customers.
Crezo Construction
We made this site for a small construction company in Canada. We replaced their old Wordpress site with a more modern version using some newer technologies, Gatsby.js and a Content Management System called Contentful.
Using Gatsby really helps on the performance and user experience side of things. When you click into the "More Projects" section, for instance, rather than loading a whole new page, only the projects component gets loaded, but the header and footer remain visible on the screen. This wouldn't have been possible in the past, using regular Javascript. Gatsby also allows images and content to be loaded through GraphQL, which speeds up loading times and allows images to load at different resolutions, depending on the user's internet speed.
Linking the site to Contentful allows the company to update their content on their own, without relying on a developer. In terms of the visual side, we followed the latest design trends to give the site a sleek new look, in line with their brand colours. This has led to a much improved user experience and reflects better on the company.
