About

Who

Currently I’m working on a couple of projects, & freelancing for some agencies I like on a per-project basis. hmu if you’d like to chat with me about your new website / internet life / fave artist:

Francesca d’Ath
Francesca d’Ath

What

I make design & code (& other things).

I work a lot in the arts and for small businesses and NGOs. I’ve made websites for artists of all types, literary awards, translation agencies, vehicles manufacturers, engineering firms, and a wide variety of projects in agencies.

My aim is to simplify and demystify the whole process of building, designing, using, and maintaining a website for people, organisations, and companies who want to be responsible for and have full, uncomplicated control over their website.

I provide consulting and advice on all aspects of design and development, performance and security, localisation, and general webserver and hosting support.

With

  1. Inclusive design is the first thing.
  2. Things I care about: Intersectionality, Accessibility, Usability, Aesthetics, Performance.
  3. I’m good anywhere in the LAMP & CSS/JS/HTML stacks.
  4. Things I use daily: CSS, HTML, PHP, WordPress, jQuery & JavaScript, MySQL, Vagrant, Git, Bash, WP-CLI.

Things I’m solid in:

  • a11y. Yup, small word for big subject and for me accessibility includes responsive design, semantic HTML, UX & UI, typography & webfonts, image, video, and media management, structured data, pretty much everything I do comes back to this.
  • .htaccess, SSH, caching & performance, opcache, security, HTTPS & HSTS, Let’s Encrypt
  • GRPR / DSVGO, Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), privacy and customer protection
  • Apache server setup, Linux VM setup, webhosting setup & management, consulting, content management
  • Also: photography, image editing, & Photoshop Affinity Photo (I use Panasonic and Canon); video, camera, editing, & Final Cut Pro X; and pretty much anything in MacOS

WordPress & adjacent stuff I write and / or use on the regular:

  • functions, plugins, and theme development, Advanced Custom Fields, WP REST API & AJAX, WPML, WooCommerce, MediaElement.js, DataTables, WP-CLI, NextCloud, Laravel

&:

I live in Berlin. Other cities with the letters ‘b’, ‘r’, ‘e’, and/or ‘l’ also may be attractive to me, as are forests, mountains, big oceans. Most interesting stuff is on my blog, supernaut