Juan Fernandes is a freelance web designer specialising in building bespoke responsive websites for small businesses in the UK
A behind-the-scenes look at how I built BKMRKS, a lightweight bookmarks manager. Covers the design process, tech stack, and lessons learned while creating a simple, self-hosted tool for organising links.
How I automated my Instapaper “liked” articles into a clean, sorted JSON feed for my 11ty site — with date normalisation, HTML stripping, and deduplication, all running daily via GitHub Actions.
A behind-the-scenes look at how I built a fast, modern e‑commerce site using 11ty, Printful, and Stripe. Learn how to fetch product data, auto-generate category pages, and create a lightweight cart and checkout experience—without a CMS.
This year in review post has been really difficult to write (and why it's so late) because of how it ended with being the worst year of my life, so far. It took me a while to write it, but I really didn't want to miss posting it as I've written one every year since 2016.
2021 was a year of firsts for the family & I after a few years of covid, including our first restaurant outing & also our first UK break since before covid
I've only had one contract inside IR35 & that was enough to put me off. First & last contract inside IR35 that I will take on
Worldwide pandemic, bullshit politics, white supremacists, racists, Brexit & a whole bunch of rubbish I won't get into
Last month I delved into security headers including Content Security Policies and added a bunch of them to my website. As a result this has improved my website
This is a quick tip showing you how to add your eleventy built website to the Eleventy leaderboards
Since WebPageTest.org started testing website security, I wanted to learn more about it & figure out how to improve my website security using headers on Netlify
This is a quick tip showing how I created a sitemap.xml file using Eleventy that will automatically update itself when you create new pages
I wanted to find a way to dynamically generate a unique Opengraph images for each blog post automatically using post data, Cloudinary API & Eleventy
Using Defer to improve the performance of my website by only loading JavaScript and CSS on a per component/partial basis.
Since this website is hosted on Netlify & they serve websites using the HTTP/2 protocol I've started exploring the benefits of it
Another year gone but it was a very good year both professionally and personally, but there is room for improvement in twenty twenty.
Short post to show how you can create multiple blogs using the Perch CMS and the blog app using sections.
Been thinking about how I keep track of changes requested by clients outside of project work. I maintain websites I've built as well as websites I host
In this post, I talk about my adventures with home automation. Basic stuff as simple as using Alexa to switch on a lamp or lights in a room
Quick post to share my Git aliases. I love seeing other developers' aliases - a lot of mine have been copied from others. So I thought I'd share mine - in the hopes someone will find it useful.
Twenty eighteen year in review post where I talk about what went well and what didn't go so well. Covering some work and personal stuff.
Love posts that show what designers & developers use to do their job – so I thought I’d post my own
My 2017 year in review post - what went well, what didn't go so well. I look into work, health, personal and look ahead for 2018.
I want you to know about my past, my journey as a website designer and how I can help you. I thought I’d write a post about how I got started as a website designer and eventually becoming a freelance website designer.
This is my website design process. In this blog post I detail my process from initial client contact to the end of a project.
How to auto update your copyright year with Perch CMS. In this short blog post I share a small code snippet that you can add to automatically update your copyright year.
My first ever year in review post, let's see how it went! 2016 was not a great year, in general for a lot of reasons
Allow a Perch CMS user to add SVG icons to an SVG sprite and use them through out the website. Usually, SVG sprites are created by a developer/designer when building a website and then never revisited unless the site has a redesign. The creation of a sprite is likely to be an automated process using a task runner like Grunt or Gulp JS.
Because there is so much content and noise on the web about development theses days, its difficult to find great ressources - its also very easy to miss hearing about new software or new techniques via social media. Newsletters are still a great way to keep up with all thats happening in our industry and front end development.
I’ve decided that 2016 is the year I start writing regular blog posts - and I just about made it, 2017 is just around the corner. I’ve never properly done it, I’ve written a few posts for my business websites’ blog but they came once in a blue moon - not good, I know.