Websites, Business Software & Automation · Halifax, West Yorkshire

Hi, I'm James

I build websites and custom business software — from client websites to factory-floor automation tools that take manual, error-prone work off people's hands. I also build small independent products of my own, like Simple Money Tools.

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Things I've built

Websites

Cefn Hedog Campsite

A WordPress website designed and built for a small campsite in North Wales, from initial design through to launch.

Jola Blinds

Freelance build for a design agency's client on Squarespace, with custom CSS and jQuery used to implement the requested design.

Business Automation Tools

Video demo coming soon

Factory Machine Program Generator

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Generates the program file a factory production machine reads directly from data entered in Excel — the same tool that turns spreadsheet input into a wire-taping machine program.

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Test Machine Program Generator

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Generates programs for our test machines directly from engineering data, built in VBA.

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CAD Software Script Integration

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Scripts that connect our CAD software directly to production machines and validate CAD entry before it reaches the factory floor.

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Bartender Label CAD Integration

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Integrates our CAD software with BarTender to generate product labels directly from CAD data.

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Personal Projects

Avalanche

A JavaScript game built to test out HTML5 Canvas and animated sprites — dodge the falling blocks for as long as you can.

Handwriting Recognition Neural Network

A neural network built from scratch in Java, trained to recognise handwritten digits from the MNIST dataset.

Personal Dashboard — Chrome Extension

A published Chrome extension that shows useful information every time you open a new tab, plus quick-access shortcuts pulled from a chosen bookmark folder.

Golden Shoe — Ecommerce Site

An ecommerce storefront built with React, Commerce.js and Stripe as a technical showcase for a job application.

Colour Scheme Generator

A small app that generates colour palettes using data from thecolorapi.com.

Tindogs

A front-end practice build — Tinder, but for dogs.

THE RIFT

A story-driven RPG prototype set in Blackwater Bay, 1994 — six playable classes, card-based turn combat, and a branching Hope/Fear system. Plain HTML/CSS/JS with procedural audio and inline SVG art, no build step or external assets.

Simple Money Tools

The website for my personal finance product — a tools directory, tutorials and guides built to promote the free budget tracker and upcoming Chrome extensions.

Iterative Improvement App

A small React app that gets one automated improvement a day — new features, refactors or UI polish — as a way of keeping consistent, daily commits flowing.

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Outside client work

Simple Money Tools

A personal project where I build and share simple, practical tools for managing money — starting with a free budget tracker and a YouTube channel that walks through how to use it.

Simple Money Tools — Website

The full site — tools directory, tutorials and guides for getting the most out of the free and Pro tools.

Visit the site

YouTube Channel

Videos on budgeting, personal finance and getting the most out of the free tools.

Watch on YouTube
Budget Tracker dashboard screenshot

Free Budget Tracker

A free Excel budget tracker with an automatic dashboard — income, spend and essential vs non-essential, worked out for you.

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James in the mountains

Beyond the screen

Outside of code

Triathlon

I train and race triathlons — swim, bike and run. The same consistency and pacing that gets you through a race tends to show up in how I approach a long project too.

Investing

I'm interested in personal finance and investing, which is what pushed me to start building Simple Money Tools in the first place.

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Have a project in mind? Leave me a message and I'll get back to you.