So, I specialize in completely custom one-off designs. Like… someone comes to me and asks me to build a site from concept to production. Now, like I said, I usually have help from some back-end devs. However… on some projects it would be easier to do it all myself, as they usually only know PHP and for a particular project, Python might ABSOLUTELY be the way to go. Sometimes Node is the ticket. Sometimes PHP is the best! You get my drift.

Anyway, lately I’ve been developing a series of templates for a company who sells them to realtors. I do all the front-end, a team of other people handle all the PHP. That’s basically because they’re dealing with a legacy data structure and don’t want me ****ing it up.

Anyway, the thing that sets me apart is that I don’t use Bootstrap, I don’t adapt WordPress Themes, I don’t do any of that. I literally build from the ground up, starting with a white screen. This is time consuming and pretty expensive but if a client wants a totally custom look, that’s kind of what it takes.

I do everything short of writing a custom CMS. That would just be silly… even though I toyed with the idea.

Getting clients is easy. This is the second industry I’ve worked in, where I came in as a relative outsider and just made leaps and bounds relatively quick. That being said, I’ve been building sites in some capacity for 10 years. But only in the last 2 have I got paid to do it and in the last year alone have I begun to do it full time. I really don’t have any regrets and I really don’t think I’d want to work for a shop. No offense to those who do. It’s just really not in my makeup to work that way.