About me

Hey, I'm Rob! 👋

I've been a freelance frontend web developer based in the United Kingdom since 2010. Since 2021, although I've technically been freelancing, I've been part of an agile-run web development team for one of my long-term clients.

From 2010 to 2020, I designed and built Magento, WordPress, and Drupal websites for business clients and UK-based design agencies. I did a lot of PSD-to projects where agencies would give me approved designs in PSD format, and I'd handle the entire application build—whether it was an e-commerce site using Magento or a simple blog using WordPress.

I also do quite a bit of design work. All of the free Figma designs on Pixel Rocket are my own creations.

I taught myself how to code in 2008 — my very first online course was a CSS course by Eric Meyer on Lynda.com. Since then, I've seen online courses grow from simple 2-3 hour sessions to massive 100-hour plus courses. But none of these courses actually taught me to think like a developer. They were mostly just instructors recording their screens while I blindly copied along. The course projects weren't built in a real-world fashion either, and that's why I created Pixel Rocket. I wanted a beginner-friendly platform where users could learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript the same way professional developers do: Agile for planning, Figma for prototyping, and Git for version control. That's why on Pixel Rocket, all my projects come with a Kanban board, breaking down the entire project into epics, with each epic containing smaller tasks.

I hope you enjoy what I've built, and I look forward to creating more tutorials for Pixel Rocket in the near future.