Web developer · business owner · Chester
I'm Evan — a frontend developer who also runs his own businesses. I build fast, search-ready sites for self-employed people and local services who need their online presence to actually bring work in.
Selected work / Pressings
Three sites I built and still run — a wellness brand, a client lead-gen funnel, and a community project. Not demos: working businesses with real customers.
My own wellness brand: a community wood-fired sauna and cold plunge in Farndon, plus a bespoke sauna construction arm. I built the brand and the whole online operation — e-commerce, session booking, memberships and content — and I run it day to day.
Not a brochure — a conversion-focused funnel for a wedding DJ business. Free-consultation capture, an availability checker, venue social proof and copy built to turn visitors into booked enquiries.
A Chester-based not-for-profit music party raising funds for charitable causes. I built the site and run it as resident DJ — ticketing, event pages and donation prompts that keep independent music culture alive locally.
Earlier engineering experiments — HeadUp (React + Firebase app), Loan Calculator, and WeatherWatch.
How I work
Anyone can generate a webpage now. What moves the needle for a small business is the bit around it — getting found, getting trusted, getting the enquiry. That's what I build and look after.
Talk it through →Built on modern static tooling that ships almost no JavaScript — fast pages, clean code, set up to show on "near me" searches from day one.
A website nobody finds is wallpaper. I sort your Google Business Profile, local SEO and the basics that get you onto the map for searches that matter.
Click-to-call, simple booking and enquiry forms, review collection wired in — so the site turns visitors into actual jobs and you can see it working.
Optional care plan: hosting, updates, tweaks and ongoing SEO. You run your business; I keep the thing that brings you work in good shape.
The short version
I'm a self-taught frontend developer who came to code through music technology — a 1st-class degree in Music Production, tinkering with Max/MSP, then discovering JavaScript and never looking back. Five years later I'd shipped scalable, accessible web apps in React and TypeScript inside a large corporation.
For the last three years I've been building and running businesses of my own, and generating their leads and sales online: Suda Sauna, a community sauna and cold plunge in Farndon with a bespoke construction arm; Chester Wedding DJs; and Steppin' with Friends, a not-for-profit music party raising money for good causes. Running them taught me what most developers never learn — what it actually takes to get a small business found, trusted and booked.
So when I build a site for a tradesperson, a studio or a local service, I'm not guessing at their problem. I've lived the quiet month. I build the website I'd want pointing at my own door.
Start a project
Trades, wellness, studios, weekend ventures — if people need to find you and book you, let's build the site that makes it happen. Tell me a bit about it and I'll come back with a straight answer on what it'd take.