Early work Weebly, then Wix
First exposure to building on the web came through Weebly in school, then Wix. The defining constraint was speed: reducing the gap between intent and deployment to near zero. That constraint shaped my approach more than any tool.
Sixth form WordPress — scale without structure
By sixth form I was building WordPress sites for small organisations and personal projects. It scaled quickly, but introduced structural fragility — plugin dependency, theme coupling, and unpredictable maintenance overhead. The systems worked, but lacked ownership.
University Systems over tools
At university I returned to fundamentals: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from first principles. This reframed the web as a system of constraints rather than a set of platforms. From there I moved into modern frameworks — React, Next.js, Astro — selected not for trend, but for architectural control and performance characteristics.