The Spirit of the Place. Every person and every organisation has a character of its own, and it matters online as much as it does in the everyday world. I’m Robert, and I build websites that let that character show: who you are, what you care about and why it matters, so that the people who find you come to know you a little.

My background is in advertising, web development and project management, education and cultural engagement, design and photography. I’ve been building for the web for a long time, and I enjoy working with the tools of the modern web: WordPress and Elementor, hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript, careful animation and interaction, and making sure a site can be found. What I enjoy most is helping something worth sharing to be understood.

Selected work

01

Agam Interiors

A site for an interior design consultancy that helps people make a British home carrying their Indian roots. The name, Agam, is Tamil for the inner life.

Features
Scroll-driven animation and smooth scrolling; sections that switch between light and dark themes as you move down the page. The owner’s own home is the portfolio.
Built with
WordPress with a custom block theme; GSAP and ScrollTrigger; Lenis; Young Serif, Schibsted Grotesk and Noto Serif Tamil.
My part
Branding direction, design, build, copy and photography.
  • Web Development
  • Graphic Design
  • Photography
agaminteriors.co.uk
Screenshot of the Agam Interiors website
02

Vizaeo

Brand identity, product design and a full homepage design for an AI visibility analytics platform, which shows business owners whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and others name them when customers ask.

Features
A homepage design that explains a new, technical subject to non-technical business owners: what gets fixed, the safeguards, how it works, and pricing.
Built with
Designed and prototyped in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
My part
Brand identity, product design and website design.
  • Graphic Design
  • Project Management
Screenshot of the Vizaeo homepage design
03

Rhythms for Resilience

A site for an ethnomusicologist’s project on music as a resource for community wellbeing, mainly in the permaculture world, with a reforestation project in Casamance, Senegal.

Features
Project and fundraising pages and a mailing list.
Built with
WordPress block theme; MailPoet for newsletters; hosted by me on DreamHost.
My part
Design, build and hosting.
  • Web Development
  • Graphic Design
  • Cultural Engagement
rhythmsforresilience.co.uk
Screenshot of the Rhythms for Resilience website
04

Tarot History

A long-running scholarly site and forum on the history of tarot, welcoming to beginners and serious researchers alike.

Features
Articles and a timeline of tarot’s history, and a moderated scholars’ forum with more than 1,300 topics and some 24,000 posts, plus newsletter sign-up and contact forms.
Built with
WordPress block theme; phpBB for the forum; Mailchimp and WPForms.
My part
Founder, editor and moderator, and developer of the site. I also fund and maintain it.
  • Web Development
  • Academic Research
  • Cultural Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
tarothistory.com the forum
Screenshot of the Tarot History website
05

Cunning Folk Cards

An interactive deck of fifty-four cards on twelve historical English cunning folk, researched from court records, pamphlets and folklore, and made to turn their world into something playful to explore.

Features
Fifty-four animated cards in four suits, with a Book of Secrets setting out each object and practice and what the historical record says of it, and a Card Reader that deals a three-card consultation.
Built with
WordPress block editor on the Ona theme; custom JavaScript for the animation and interactive cards; Mailchimp.
My part
Concept, research, design and direction. Code and some of the text made with Claude.
  • Web Development
  • Graphic Design
  • Academic Research
  • Cultural Engagement
  • Teaching and Training
cunningfolkcards.com
Screenshot of The Cunning Folk Cards website
06

The Codex

An art project exploring the Spirit of the Place and the experience of the numinous in everyday life. It deliberately blurs the boundaries between memory, history and imagination.

Features
Moving type, scroll-driven transitions, a sung antiphon, twenty-four of my own photographs, and a structure of attendant figures, canonical hours and field fragments.
Built with
Hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript; GSAP and ScrollTrigger; Anton, Cutive Mono and Fraunces; no CMS.
My part
Written, photographed and designed by me. Tools are credited in the site’s colophon.
  • Web Development
  • Graphic Design
  • Photography
codex.spiritusloci.co.uk
Screenshot of The Codex, an art project about the spirit of place
07

Spiritus Loci AI

Designing with AI: research, websites, images, video and music.

Features
Galleries of images, animation, music and film.
Built with
WordPress with the Ona theme; WPForms; Midjourney, Suno and DaVinci Resolve for the images, music and animation.
My part
I set the brief and the structure, and edit everything.
  • Web Development
  • Graphic Design
spiritusloci.ai
Screenshot of the spiritusloci.ai website

Write to me.

I’m looking for work with people who care about what they make: a small organisation, school or company that could use someone who enjoys turning a hand to many things. I’d be glad to hear from you.

Based in Oxford. Remote work available.

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