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the build side
Tech
Websites built by hand, hosting that runs on goodwill rather than gouging, and a couple of pieces of software I made simply because I wanted them to exist. No dashboards full of features you'll never touch — just the things that earn their keep.
Website Production
A site built around what you actually do — readable, fast, and yours. From a single honest page to a full multi-section site.
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Donation-ware Hosting
A quiet, reliable home for your website — and you decide what it's worth to you. Genuinely.
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Software
WhatYou.site and StoryWeaver.online — small tools with big ideas, built and run by one person.
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website production
A website should sound like you, not like a template.
Most sites you meet were assembled, not made — dragged together out of the same dozen blocks everyone else is using, stuffed with stock photos of people pointing at laptops. They work, in the way a microwave dinner works. I'd rather build you something a touch more like a meal.
I write the markup by hand, keep it light enough to load on a phone in a field, and — because writing is the other half of what I do — I'll help you get the words right too, not just the boxes they sit in. The result is a site that says what you mean, loads quickly, reads well, and doesn't quietly rot the moment some framework changes its mind.
We talk
What do you do, who's it for, and what does the site need to actually accomplish? No jargon required.
I build & you watch
A working site, live where you can see it, growing in plain sight. You react; I adjust.
We get the words right
Copy that reads like a person wrote it. This is where the Text half quietly earns its place.
It ships — and stays
Launched, and then looked after. I'm still here when you need a change next year.
a few I've built
Sites I produced from the ground up
ehewlett.net
My own corner of the web — the home base for the writing, the blog, and everything that didn't fit anywhere else. Designed and built end to end.
ehewlett.net ↗StoryWeaver.online
A full interactive storytelling application — interface, logic, and AI plumbing all built in-house. Equal parts website and software.
storyweaver.online ↗Want yours on this list? Let's talk →
donation-ware hosting
Pay what it's worth to you. I mean it literally.
A lot of worthwhile things on the web — a small parish, a craftsman, a free bible school — don't have a marketing budget, and shouldn't need one to stay online. So hosting here works on an old, honest principle: it costs what you can give, and a thin month never gets anybody evicted.
You name the figure
There's no price sheet. You contribute what the service is honestly worth to you and your work — generous when you can, lean when you must.
Quietly reliable
Your site stays up, loads quickly, and isn't plastered with ads or trackers I slipped in to make rent. It's just your site, served plainly.
A real person answers
When something breaks or needs changing, you email a human who knows your site — not a ticket queue in another time zone.
In good company
A handful of the sites that currently call my server home. I host these — the craft and content are entirely their makers' own.
St Nicholas Orthodox Mission
An English-language Orthodox Christian community in Kamloops, BC.
orthodoxkamloops.ca ↗Veronika McLeod
An iconographer's portfolio and home for custom, hand-painted Orthodox icon commissions.
nikamcleod.com ↗Design Build Artisan
A small contractor's shopfront — bespoke carpentry, cabinetry, and furniture made by hand.
designbuildartisan.com ↗King's Online Bible School
Free, non-graded biblical courses, given to strengthen Christians in the Scriptures.
kingsonline.org ↗software
Two small tools, built because they ought to exist.
I don't make software to chase a market. I make it when I keep wishing a particular thing existed and finally admit I'll have to build it myself. So far that's produced two: one for people who maintain websites, and one for people who tell stories.
WhatYou.site
Edit your site. Right on the page.
Most content systems make you log into a separate machine-room, fiddle with a database, and pray the deploy goes through — all to fix a typo. WhatYou.site throws that out. It's a drop-in editor that lives on your existing HTML: click a bit of the live page, change it, and the change is saved straight to the file. No database, no migration, no pipeline.
- ✦ Click-to-edit, right on the live page
- ✦ Saves to real HTML files — no database to babysit
- ✦ Shared menus & themes across every page at once
- ✦ Pulls legacy pages into a modern theme without a rebuild
- ✦ Installs as a single PHP file on almost any host
StoryWeaver.online
Collaborative fantasy, written with a little help from a machine.
This one sits right on the seam between tech and text — which is probably why I couldn't resist it. StoryWeaver.online is a place to build and live inside fantasy adventures, part human imagination and part AI. Tap your way through branching choices on your phone, type an action of your own, or hand-craft a whole page yourself when the muse insists.
- ✦ Classic tap-to-choose branches, or type your own action
- ✦ AI-generated openings, continuations, and images
- ✦ Hand-craft any page yourself when you'd rather lead
- ✦ Bring your own API key, or lean on the shared one
Need a site, a server, or a sounding board?
Tell me what you're trying to do and who it's for. I'll tell you, honestly, whether I'm the right person to build it.