About us
Stuff and Nonsense has been developing web sites for clients from our small studio in North Wales since 1998. We may be small, but since then we've gained a big reputation and are now well-known nationally and internationally for creating strong designs and highly accessible web sites.
Our aims are simple: we aim to do nice work for nice people, work that we can be proud of. We aim to stay small and passionate about what we do best: creative design and front end web development using XHTML, CSS and related technologies.
A little bit of history
Designer and author Andy Clarke writes:
When my wife and I moved to a rural part of North Wales, UK in 1998 to escape the stresses and strains of living and working in and around London, we had no real desire to start a business. After working in creative design studios around London, including some very early designs for the web, I had imagined going to work for a local agency.
But before all of our belongings were unpacked, word seemed to get around that we knew about 'that' internet and soon people were asking
Could you design a web site for us?. I am amazed and honoured that almost ten years later, people are still asking the same question.
Our clients now include local North Wales businesses, national and international businesses, charities, academic institutions and government bodies.
Our services
- Stylish and effective creative web site design
- Web site and ecommerce store design
- Accessibility consultation
- User-experience consultation
- Front-end template development
- Advice on hosting and Content Management Solutions.
We also write books and online publications as well as speaking and training at conference and workshop events worldwide.
Andy Clarke
Andy Clarke has been working on the web for almost ten years. He is an occassional contributor to the Web Standards Project where he redesigned the organization's web site in 2006 and is also an Invited Expert to the W3C's CSS Working Group where he has done a lot less than he would like to have done.
Andy regularly writes about creating beautiful, accessible web sites and he speaks at conference and workshop events worldwide. Andy is the author of the best selling Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design, published by New Riders in 2006.
- Sue Clarke
- A project and client manager par-excellence, Sue is the glue that holds Stuff and Nonsense together. She keeps creative brains focussed on the task in hand and remembers everything that should not be forgotten.
- Owen Gregory
An experienced front-end developer with an extensive knowledge of what it takes to turn creative, engaging designs into flexible and usable web sites.
(Andy Clarke press photo by Patrick Lauke
