Clipper
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Brian Dave
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About me
Designer and developer
I design and build websites end to end, which means nothing is lost in a handover and what you approve is what ships. Mostly for small teams and early-stage brands who need something fast, readable on a phone, and editable by whoever comes next.
More about me- 6sites shipped and live
- 2built in two languages
- 2025–2026years covered
- 1person, design and build
Building considered
digital products
Four things I am asked for most. Most projects are two of them, and a rebuild is usually all four.
- 01
Web design
Layout, type and motion, designed in the browser rather than handed over as a flat file. What you approve is what ships.
- Layout, type and motion designed in the browser
- Designed against real copy, never lorem
- Signed off on the thing that ships, not a flat file
- 02
Development
Next.js and GSAP. Server-rendered, accessible, and fast on the connection your visitors actually have.
- Next.js, server rendered
- GSAP for scroll and entrance motion
- Accessible markup and keyboard order
- Fast on the connection your visitors actually have
- 03
Bilingual builds
Full English and French, routed and translated properly, with the switcher landing on the page you were already reading.
- Routed and translated, not machine-swapped
- Both languages indexed separately
- The switcher lands on the page you were reading
- 04
Rebuilds
An existing site taken apart and put back together: same brand, faster, and maintainable by whoever comes next.
- Existing site taken apart and re-made
- Same brand, faster and maintainable
- Content migrated rather than retyped
How a project runs
Typically five to six weeks
Two projects at a time
- 01
Scope
A call, then a written page: what the site has to do, what it does not, and what it will cost. Nothing starts before that page is agreed.
Week 1 - 02
Structure
Pages, sections and real copy, before any design. Most arguments about a layout turn out to be arguments about what the page is for.
Week 1–2 - 03
Design and build
Designed in the browser, so there is no handover and no gap between the mockup and the thing. You see it on a real URL from the first week.
Week 2–5 - 04
Ship and hand over
Deployed, indexed, and walked through with whoever will maintain it. You get the repository and the ability to change your own copy.
Week 5–6
Thoughts on
craft and process
Problems that came up on real projects, and what actually fixed them. Mostly the kind that pass every check and ship anyway.
BilingualThe default language is not the one you configured
A site set to English greeting every French visitor in French, with nothing broken and every check passing.
- Motion
Smooth scroll kills position: sticky
Inertial scrolling transforms the page, and a transform makes every sticky column inside it stop being sticky.
Design systemsThe accent colour that only works big
The same hex that looks superb on a 56px button is unreadable on a 13px label, and design tools will not tell you.