About Novander Studio
Why I do this
I have been working on software projects and coding challenges since I was young. I moved into web development because I saw a real need in the market for a lean, efficient company that fights hard to deliver results, without the details getting lost in translation.
I’m a one-man team, so the person you brief is the person who builds your website. That is how things get done right, and done quickly. I take on only a few clients at a time, so that every one of them gets my full attention.
Why clubs, charities and institutions
England is full of remarkable clubs, societies and institutions, and too many of them are in steep decline. I don’t want to see that happen. I want England to keep its culture and its heritage, and the best way to do that is to grow digitally and reach new people.
Too often an organisation’s online presence is letting it down badly. That is the part I can fix.
What I care about
- Speed.Pages that load quickly on an ordinary phone, because nobody waits for a slow website.
- Security.A static site with no cookies, trackers or third-party scripts, so there is little to attack and nothing watching your visitors.
- Simplicity.Plain, well-supported technology and a clear process, so your site is easy to run and easy to hand on.
- Tools.I’m proficient in the tools this website is built with, Next.js, React, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS, and I choose what to deploy by what keeps a site fast, secure and simple, never at the cost of ambition or style.
Why “Novander”
The name joins the Latin novus, “new”, with the Greek -ander, “man”, the same ending as Alexander. Together they mean “new man”.
The Romans had a phrase for it. A novus homo was someone who became the first in their family to reach high office: an outsider who won a place in Rome’s oldest institutions on merit rather than inheritance. Cicero, perhaps the greatest of them, never let anyone forget it.
I liked the idea because it describes the work. The organisations I most enjoy helping have decades, sometimes centuries, of history. My job is to bring them into the next generation: new readers, new members, new ways of being found, while keeping everything that made them worth finding in the first place.