Ben Spooner.

I help established businesses modernise ageing websites and keep them healthy over time.

Builds, rebuilds, and ongoing care.

Most projects begin with a conversation and a clear look at what the website needs: what is working, what is drifting, and what should be handled first.

Build

New websites, rebuilds, migrations, and ageing sites that need a stronger foundation.

Ongoing care

Regular checks, updates, uploads, fixes, visibility monitoring, and operational maintenance.

Build + stewardship

A proper rebuild followed by ongoing care, refinement, and website health checks.

How it works

  1. 01

    Initial call

  2. 02

    Website review

  3. 03

    Action points

  4. 04

    First version

  5. 05

    Final polish

  6. 06

    Ongoing stewardship

Websites decay when nobody is looking after them.

Health is not one thing. It is speed, structure, accessibility, search visibility, reliability, content quality, and knowing when something has changed. The workspace gives that ongoing care somewhere to live, so notes, files, audits, checks, and small improvements stay connected to the site.

Selected projects.

Founder

CopyLint

A custom auditing engine for checking copy, metadata, terminology, and consistency across pages.

Client

Connection Clinic

A new therapy practice website built around trust, service clarity, and long-term maintainability.

Practice system

GoAgain

A single-page progressive web app for rhythm practice, built as an interactive product rather than a conventional website.

What clients say.

An absolute joy to work with - incredibly prompt with changes and strikes the perfect balance between asking for my input and sharing his professional expertise.

Becky CF.

Connection Clinic

He understood what the site needed beyond just the design - structure, usability, performance, and how it would be maintained over time.

Hayley S.

Mother's Memoirs

Things I've been thinking about.

MODERN WEB · OPERATIONS

The problem with “finished” websites

One of the stranger ideas in web development is the idea of the “finished” website.

A business launches a redesign, signs off the final round of amends, pushes everything live, and from that point onward the website is often treated as complete. Attention moves elsewhere. The project is done.

Except it usually isn’t. Content changes. Services evolve. Search behaviour shifts. Dependencies age. The website keeps moving whether anyone actively maintains it or not.

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How I got here.

I came to software through music: teaching, performing, writing, and eventually publishing Beginner to Composer In 14 Days.

That background still shapes how I work. Music teaches you to notice structure, repetition, feedback, and small improvements made consistently over time.

Those same ideas now sit underneath my web work: clear systems, maintainable tools, and websites that keep improving after launch.

I still write, compose, and build practice tools alongside client work.

Illustrated portrait of Ben Spooner

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