About

Welcome to my Blog,

This web site serves as a way for me to make available to the public my web design and development projects.

What I do
I specialise in three phases of web design and development including initial (raw) Web Page Design, WordPress Design and Integration, and Search Engine Optimization.

How it all started
Back in 1998 when I bought my first computer, I realised quickly that building web sites was a rewarding hobby and began building my first web page with one of those free web site hosting services. After a week or two I decided that I needed more freedom than that service could provide. Without any experience or knowledge of HTML I registered my first Domain Name and started building my first (real) web site. Because of my lack of knowledge with HTML I was forced to search the web for bits and pieces of HTML code to build the web site and it didn’t take long for me to realise that I needed to learn HTML if I wanted to move forward. So I found a book (Sam’s Teach Yourself HTML in 24 Hours) It took me about six hours to complete the lessons in the book, which were simple and intuitive. In just six hours I had learned everything I needed to know to build that web site and my hobby grew exponentially from that day on.

Previous Projects
Although it is my specialty, WordPress is not the only PHP script I have created templates for. For several years vBulletin, arguably the most widely used Forum script on the web, was a victim of my integration and design technique. My latest template design for vBulletin is the “Interlude” template which has been downloaded by thousands of people and is still being used on hundreds of forums across the web. Another popular vBulletin template I created was the “Vista VB” template, which has been downloaded more than 23,000 times.

These days in my spare time I study PHP, mostly for reference to give me the ability to alter already existing scripts like WordPress, the platform this web site runs on and I design WordPress templates that I make available to download for free on this web site.

For information about the services I offer and pricing, please view the “Hire Me” page.

Del H.