The people behind the work

Web Design Pro builds websites for small businesses across Fife and Scotland. Information sites, online stores, and the kind of custom features that make a website actually useful for the business behind it.

We take on a small number of projects at a time. That means the person discussing your site is the same person building it.

My first job was as a software tester. I spent nine years at the same company and eventually worked my way up to C++ developer. That time shaped the way I approach problems: thinking in systems, spotting issues early, and paying attention to details most people overlook.

After that I went in a completely different direction. I built a portfolio, got accepted into animation school, and spent almost seven years working as a CG artist. Pixel-perfect work under tight deadlines, long hours, high standards. It taught me patience, focus, a healthy relationship with frustration, and a particular kind of stamina that comes from caring deeply about something most people will never notice, unless it's missing. My colleagues called me eagle eye. The name stuck.

Later, after moving to Scotland and starting a family, I needed work that fit around real life. I taught myself web design, built practice sites until the pieces started fitting together, and took on my first client when I felt ready. Every project pushes my knowledge, makes me learn something new. And I love it.

The way I work now reflects all of those years. I spend a lot of time preparing before a build begins, researching, planning, making lists, understanding how a site needs to function. That preparation is what makes the build itself run smoothly. It's not the visible part of the work, but it's where most of the thinking happens.

Most professions follow a familiar arc. You learn a set of skills, build experience, and spend the rest of your career refining them. Web development doesn't work like that. Every project comes with its own rules, its own constraints, its own problem to solve for a completely different business and industry. There is no comfort zone. The real skill you develop over time isn't any one technique, it's getting comfortable with the unknown. Learning how to break something down, analyse it, and build something worthwhile from scratch.

So if a client asks whether I can do something I've never done before, the honest answer is usually: I haven't done something like this before, but I'll do some research and come back to you with a plan.

He was already doing web work as part of running his own business and eventually decided teaching me was a better use of everyone's time. He was right.

Adrian handles the technical foundations that keep websites running, hosting, DNS, email setup, server configuration, and the infrastructure most clients never see but rely on every day.

He's also the person I call when something needs a second opinion or when a problem sits more firmly in IT territory than design.

He joins most first meetings, and between the two of us very little slips through the cracks.