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Work

See the latest work by Juan Fernandes – Freelance Website Designer based in Woodbridge Suffolk UK – showcasing freelance and contract work

Redesign of Surbiton Tyre and Wheel Website

This project aims to transform the Surbiton Tyre and Wheel website into a high-performing, user-friendly platform with improved SEO and a seamless mobile experience.

SO5 Clothing Case Study | Custom eCommerce Store with YourNextStore

Case study: How I built SO5 Clothing’s online store using YourNextStore. Featuring custom size guides, product descriptions, and brand-focused design improvements to launch a professional streetwear brand.

Property With Potential - Modern Redesign of Landing and Results Pages

This project aims to significantly improve the current website's mobile experience, accessibility, and overall performance using advanced design and coding techniques.

NFT Merch Shop

NFT Merch Shop is an ecommerce platform where NFT collectors can seamlessly convert their digital assets into physical merchandise — t-shirts, hoodies, posters, etc.

The National College

I was hired by Synergi Tech to develop components and pages from designs provided by a National College designer.

Bulk Secure Messaging

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Money Alive Integration

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NDA Work

See the latest work by Juan Fernandes – Freelance Website Designer based in Woodbridge Suffolk UK – showcasing freelance and contract work

Multi Creative Media

Website redesign and relaunch for my own creative agency - Multi Creative Media

Lusso Prestige - Modern Website Design & Development for Vehicle Sales

This project aims to create a visually appealing, user-friendly, and highly functional website that effectively promotes vehicle sales and engages potential buyers.

Gratuu - Website Design and Development

This project aims to deliver a modern, user-friendly website that effectively showcases the client's product and information while providing easy content management and flexibility.

BKMRKS

Bookmark manager built with React

Arrival Lifts - Comprehensive Redesign and Rebuild of Arrival Lifts Website

This project aims to enhance the Arrival Lifts online presence, providing a visually appealing, functional, and professional website that effectively engages visitors and improves overall user experience.

Virgin Wines

Working within a team of designer and developers to completely re-design and rebuild the virgin wines website based in Norwich Norfolk UK

Tom Hartley JNR - Responsive Website

Tom Hartley JNR had a new brand and needed a website ready for the launch of his new business.

McLaren

McLaren required a set of responsive forms used to gather interest from fans and perspective clients when ever they release a new vehicle.

Landrover

Working within a team to designers and developers to build Land Rovers first approved used vehicles website for over 1000 dealers worldwide

Archived Work

See archived work by Juan Fernandes – Freelance Website Designer based in Woodbridge Suffolk UK – showcasing freelance and contract work

Fourpoints

Four Points asked me to make their existing website responsive, as well moving it from Joomla to Perch CMS.

Uses

This is the kit I use for most of my work — a mix of design, front-end development, and everything in between. I’ve worked across a range of environments over the years, so while these are my preferred tools, I’m comfortable adapting when needed.

Testimonials

Juan Fernandes is a freelance website designer specialising in designing and building bespoke responsive websites for small businesses in the UK

Stream

Social media posts about web design, development and personal stuff

Slashes

Notes

Short posts, photos, thoughts about code, design and personal stuff

Reading

Books

Links

Home

Juan Fernandes is a freelance website designer specialising in building bespoke responsive websites for small businesses in the UK

Freelance Services

Modern, user-friendly websites that drive engagement. I offer custom design, UX/UI, optimization, and ongoing support to bring your digital vision to life.

Contact

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Changelog

All about this website, including tech used etc

Blogroll

Blog

Blog posts by Juan Fernandes about front-end development and web design

About

Learn more about Juan Fernandes, a UK-based frontend developer and UX designer with a passion for the open web, personal websites, accessibility and building useful digital experiences.

Now

Read about what I'm currently up to

Bye Bye Apple

After almost three years of being on the apple eco system (MacBook, iPhone, iWatch and AirPods - I've had enough

Companies House Search UX

Companies House search is terrible

Building BKMRKS | A Lightweight Bookmarks Manager Project

A behind-the-scenes look at how I built BKMRKS, a lightweight bookmarks manager. Covers the design process, tech stack, and lessons learned while creating a simple, self-hosted tool for organising links.

Automating my links list

How I automated my Instapaper “liked” articles into a clean, sorted JSON feed for my 11ty site — with date normalisation, HTML stripping, and deduplication, all running daily via GitHub Actions.

Articles

This is a curated list of articles I've read and have shared online as I believe they are worth sharing.

Building a Printful‑powered e‑commerce site with 11ty and Stripe

A behind-the-scenes look at how I built a fast, modern e‑commerce site using 11ty, Printful, and Stripe. Learn how to fetch product data, auto-generate category pages, and create a lightweight cart and checkout experience—without a CMS.

Should I continue with my monthly notes?

For most of 2023 my monthly notes posts have contained a lot more personal content and not a lot web design stuff.

Should I continue with my monthly notes?

For most of 2023 my monthly notes posts have contained a lot more personal content and not a lot web design stuff.

Do I still need to use these?

Do I still need to use these? I'm rebuilding my website and tidying up/removing code

2022: Year in review

This year in review post has been really difficult to write (and why it's so late) because of how it ended with being the worst year of my life, so far. It took me a while to write it, but I really didn't want to miss posting it as I've written one every year since 2016.

Auto posting to fediverse broke

Auto posting to fediverse broke with the change of instance and I'm trying to get it working again

Updating IFTTT Webhooks

Since I've moved to a new mastadon instance I need to update my IFTTT webhooks to work with it

Tried a few headless CMSs

After trying quite a few headless CMSs I finally settled on Forestry - again

Mastodon Instance

Can’t decide if I want to move to a new mastodon instance or host my own

Social posts and IFTTT reliance

All my auto posts to social media rely on IFTTT

Now Streaming

Some progress on my Streams to social media posts

Adding a CMS to my website

Want to add a CMS to this website to its easier to post social posts from my phone

IndieWeb Tweets

Going back to posting tweets or short notes via my website and syndicating

2021: Year in review

2021 was a year of firsts for the family & I after a few years of covid, including our first restaurant outing & also our first UK break since before covid

Changelog: Add other links to the footer

Saw a tweet about how websites with RSS should have a link to it in the header to save digging into code to find it, after a tiny footer redesign I added mine

TIL: Generating a hash from the command line

Since adding Content Security Policies to my website, I need to add a sha for any inline scripts I use - I only use one, which is the one to initiate the ServiceWorker.

TIL - Webmention and URLs

Creating a post with a title that has uppercase letters, like IR35 - the URL will have those uppercase letters in your file system, but in the live URL they will be lowercase

DeGoogling is the same as jailbreaking apparently

Turns out that some apps will treat your DeGoogled Android phone as a phone that has a custom ROM installed aka it has been 'jailbroken' and won't run

Opting out of Google's FLoC Network

This website is now opted out of Google's FLoC Network

Working an inside IR35 contract

I've only had one contract inside IR35 & that was enough to put me off. First & last contract inside IR35 that I will take on

Bye Bye Gmail

That's it - I have finally deleted my Gmail account. I've been using a self-hosted email address for a year now and slowly switching email addresses on websites I still use.

2020: Year in review

Worldwide pandemic, bullshit politics, white supremacists, racists, Brexit & a whole bunch of rubbish I won't get into

How I improved my website because of Content Security Policies

Last month I delved into security headers including Content Security Policies and added a bunch of them to my website. As a result this has improved my website

Add your site to the Eleventy Leaderboards

This is a quick tip showing you how to add your eleventy built website to the Eleventy leaderboards

Improving Website Security

Since WebPageTest.org started testing website security, I wanted to learn more about it & figure out how to improve my website security using headers on Netlify

Creating a Sitemap file with Eleventy

This is a quick tip showing how I created a sitemap.xml file using Eleventy that will automatically update itself when you create new pages

Escaping Nunjucks code in a markdown code block

Turns out you need to escape Nunjucks code within a markdown code block. Found a solution by Mark Llobrera - @dirtystylus

Automated Open Graph images with 11ty and Cloudinary

I wanted to find a way to dynamically generate a unique Opengraph images for each blog post automatically using post data, Cloudinary API & Eleventy

Using Defer to improve performance

Using Defer to improve the performance of my website by only loading JavaScript and CSS on a per component/partial basis.

Recording audio input from other apps

Turns out that you can't easily recorded audio from one app to another on a Mac, without some extra software and changing some preferences

Exploring the benefits of HTTP2

Since this website is hosted on Netlify & they serve websites using the HTTP/2 protocol I've started exploring the benefits of it

New Pallet Project

Started on a non tech project today. My office is a mini loft above our garage, and it has these gaps for storage that I don''t need, so I''m covering them up with pallet wood planks.

Performance? What performance?

Just found an image on my clients' website (added by a third party) that weighs in at, wait for it, a whopping 39.4mb 😬

Switching to Firefox Focus

I've now switched my default browser to Firefox Focus - a privacy focused browser. No cookies, ads, tracking or history.

Off Facebook

My Facebook account has been deactivated for over a year and now I've now asked for it to be deleted.

Google Pay

Removing your Google account from your phone means Google Pay will stop working - derp

Getting rid of Google calendar

Replacing Google calendar has been one of the hardest apps/services to replace.

Estimote LTE Beacons Developer Kit

My estimote LTE beacons developer kit has finally arrived (made to order) - so looks like I'll be tinkering with this at this weekend 🤓

Pi-hole and New Router

The next stage in my privacy control adventures is to setup Pi-hole at home.

Created my first NPM package

I just created my first NPM package and it was surprisingly easy to do it.

Eleventy Cloudinary Shortcode

Created a shortcode for @eleventy so I can use Cloudinary images within markdown files.

Native disclosure element works in Instapaper app

Reading an article about the native HTML disclosure element (details + summary) and was pleased to see that it works in the Instapaper app

Firefox Focus

For a privacy focused browser, I was surprised to see Google as the default search engine.

Google Hangouts

Almost ready to uninstall Google Hangouts from my phone.

Replacing my phone's OS

It's been a week since #naconf and Laura Kalbag's talk on privacy - I''ve been reviewing my own privacy since then.

New Adventures 2020

Really looking forward to New Adventures 2020 conference in a few weeks. Great way to start the year. Let me know if you're going.

2019: Year in review

Another year gone but it was a very good year both professionally and personally, but there is room for improvement in twenty twenty.

Version 2 of my website went live last week

Published version 2 of my website. Rebuilt using 11ty, Nunjucks and hosted on Netlify and using NetlifyCMS for content.

Multiple blogs with Perch CMS

Short post to show how you can create multiple blogs using the Perch CMS and the blog app using sections.

Keeping track of tasks

Been thinking about how I keep track of changes requested by clients outside of project work. I maintain websites I've built as well as websites I host

Home Automation

In this post, I talk about my adventures with home automation. Basic stuff as simple as using Alexa to switch on a lamp or lights in a room

My Git Aliases

Quick post to share my Git aliases. I love seeing other developers' aliases - a lot of mine have been copied from others. So I thought I'd share mine - in the hopes someone will find it useful.

2018: Year in review

Twenty eighteen year in review post where I talk about what went well and what didn't go so well. Covering some work and personal stuff.

Tools I Use

Love posts that show what designers & developers use to do their job – so I thought I’d post my own

2017: Year in review

My 2017 year in review post - what went well, what didn't go so well. I look into work, health, personal and look ahead for 2018.

My Web Design Journey

I want you to know about my past, my journey as a website designer and how I can help you. I thought I’d write a post about how I got started as a website designer and eventually becoming a freelance website designer.

Website Design Process - working with me

This is my website design process. In this blog post I detail my process from initial client contact to the end of a project.

Automatic copyright year in Perch CMS

How to auto update your copyright year with Perch CMS. In this short blog post I share a small code snippet that you can add to automatically update your copyright year.

2016: Year in review

My first ever year in review post, let's see how it went! 2016 was not a great year, in general for a lot of reasons

Adding SVG icons to a sprite with Perch CMS

Allow a Perch CMS user to add SVG icons to an SVG sprite and use them through out the website. Usually, SVG sprites are created by a developer/designer when building a website and then never revisited unless the site has a redesign. The creation of a sprite is likely to be an automated process using a task runner like Grunt or Gulp JS.

Newsletters for Front-end developers

Because there is so much content and noise on the web about development theses days, its difficult to find great ressources - its also very easy to miss hearing about new software or new techniques via social media. Newsletters are still a great way to keep up with all thats happening in our industry and front end development.

Hello World! First blog post.

I’ve decided that 2016 is the year I start writing regular blog posts - and I just about made it, 2017 is just around the corner. I’ve never properly done it, I’ve written a few posts for my business websites’ blog but they came once in a blue moon - not good, I know.