Ben Spooner.

Websites for businesses. Software for problems. Learning systems for music.

How I work

Build, [review, & improve]. To keep websites alive requires someone to continually review and improve all areas of the website stack, which goes far beyond the visible site.

What I've built.

Therapy Practice Platform

Connection Clinic

A therapy practice platform with therapist profiles, content management, availability, online booking, Stripe payments, and portal access.

Publishing Platform

Mothers Memoirs

Mother’s Memoirs invites women to share their most authentic reflections of motherhood — for themselves, their loved ones, and for posterity.
  • Content-managed websites
  • Custom CMS builds
  • Client and therapist portals
  • Availability management
  • Booking systems
  • Stripe payment workflows
  • Email automation
  • Internal dashboards
  • SEO and content tooling
  • Interactive learning platforms
  • Content-managed websites
  • Custom CMS builds
  • Client and therapist portals
  • Availability management
  • Booking systems
  • Stripe payment workflows
  • Email automation
  • Internal dashboards
  • SEO and content tooling
  • Interactive learning platforms

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.

MUSIC · PRACTICE

Become a multi-instrumentalist. It’s easier than you think

What is a multi-instrumentalist?

Wikipedia defines a multi-instrumentalist as:

“a musician who plays two or more musical instruments at a professional level of proficiency” - Wikipedia

Notice the word ‘proficiency’. In Wikipedia’s view multi-instrumentalists have to be experts, not just on one instrument but on all of them - no easy feat. There’s no denying it’s incredible to watch and listen to musicians who have mastered their craft, however I prefer to think of multi-instrumentalists as ‘musically fluent’ rather than proficient. Fluency is a very different proposition, a more attainable one. Where proficiency is reserved for the few, fluency is open to all…

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How I got here.

Before moving into modern web work, my life was centred around music. I taught drums and piano privately, performed at festivals, and composed for some animated films.

One project I’m especially proud of was Beginner to Composer In 14 Days. It came from a gap I kept seeing in music education - students were often taught pieces and theory in isolation, with little to no focus on composition or improvisation. My view was always that creativity should start from day one, not after years of study.

So I built a step-by-step method around that idea, taking students from absolute beginner to writing their own music on a real lead sheet.

That way of thinking carried naturally into web work. I enjoy understanding the real problem, building the right structure around it, and turning something complex into something clear, useful and manageable.

I still maintain music projects alongside client work - music is still very much in my bones - but my focus today is building and maintaining modern websites.

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