Personal projects
Sites I build and run for their own sake.
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heathfold.uk
One page per village, with trains, bins, the river, the weather, the planes overhead and anything in force today, all computed from live sources, so nothing on it needs a volunteer to keep it up to date.
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latexallergy.info
Latex allergy explained for the people around someone who has it: the party host, the school, the employer, the restaurant. Short handover sheets to print and pass on, each backed by referenced pages.
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shogun.info
A short history of the shogun: where the word comes from, each period from the first commissions to the end of the office, and James Clavell's novel with its 1980 and 2024 television series. Every Japanese word comes with help saying it.
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chetnole.com
An unofficial village noticeboard for Chetnole in west Dorset, for the things people look up in a hurry: how the request stop works, what to do when the Wriggle rises, and who to ring. Live trains and river levels are on its heathfold.uk page.
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dorset.gallery
Dorset as the painters, engravers and early photographers saw it: 103 public domain pictures, from Turner, Girtin and John Brett to Whistler's Lyme Regis prints and the colour photochroms of the 1890s, in five parts of the county, with a page for every picture.
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tinian1945.com
A history of the first atomic bombs and the B-29s that carried them, told as two journeys that meet on the Pacific island of Tinian in 1945. Every date, time and figure is cited, and where reputable sources disagree, the page says so.
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cubancrisis1962.com
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, day by day: the decisions in Washington and Moscow, Cuba's experience, and Britain's part, including the RAF crews who operated American Thor missiles on British soil. Every passage cites its sources, and where accounts are contested, the site says so.
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dorsetatwar.uk
Dorset in the Second World War, from the invasion summer of 1940 to D-Day and victory, told across 30 places, nine themes and a timeline for each year. Every statement has a source, every photograph a licence and a credit, and nothing on it is generated.
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wartime.uk
Every village and town of England and Wales in wartime, one page per place, like heathfold.uk: 3,843 listed war memorials, 413 wartime structures and the military sites nearby, on 3,881 place pages. Every fact names the published record it comes from.
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dorsetinfo.uk
A history of Dorset for general readers: a timeline of 120 events from the Jurassic rock of the coast to the present, thirteen periods, nine places and eighteen people. Every event says how certain it is, and all 290 references are gathered on one page.
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wartimechapters.com
Four naval stories of the Second World War told chapter by chapter: Bismarck, Midway, Yamato and Tirpitz. Profiles of the ships, aircraft and weapons, personal accounts, and the original documents behind each chapter.
Free guides from Dalaric
Written by me and run by my company, Dalaric Limited. Free to use, with no account.
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git.guide
Nine plain English git guides for people with a live website to worry about, and a free check for one specific leak: a website serving its own git repository, and with it the site's whole history, to anybody who asks.
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ineedhelpwithhosting.com
Plain English hosting help for small businesses, for a website that is down, email that isn't arriving or a hacked WordPress site, and for the jobs nobody hands you a list for once a new site goes live. A free domain health check, a bounce message explainer and an SPF record merger sit alongside the guides.
Client websites
Sites I build or look after for clients, through my company, Dalaric Limited. They belong to the clients.
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sherborne.taxi
The website of Hounslow's Sherborne Taxi, a family run taxi firm in Sherborne since 1987: airport transfers, school runs and journeys around Dorset, with thirty years of customers' letters. Rebuilt off WordPress in 2026 as a static site with one form.
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theyetties.com
The website of The Yetties, the Dorset folk group from Yetminster: their story in Bonny Sartin's words, with their recordings, notes on the songs they sang, their newsletters and their photographs.
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commscopetraining.com
The CommScope Infrastructure Academy, which runs on Wahoo Learning's learning platform and trains CommScope's partners and customers: around 150,000 learners in more than 130 countries. Wahoo own the platform. I have run its hosting since 2000 and done a great deal of its development.
