Over 40 Years at the Keyboard
I grew up through the 70s and 80s and watched the home computer revolution from the very start.
In 1984 I taught myself BASIC on a Commodore 64. A year or so later I wanted more speed and
control, so I moved on to writing 6510 machine code. That early grounding in how computers
really work still shapes how I write code today: efficiently, carefully and with an eye on
performance.
By the mid-90s I was building websites, and in 2002 Freedom Web Services was born. It started in
a small shop in Maldon, Essex called Freedom Communication Center (including Freedom Fine Art),
owned by my friend, the artisan
Stephen J Turner
.
I worked there freelance, doing everything from day-to-day jobs to maintaining and updating
Stephen’s websites. Freedom Web Services grew out of that work and took its name from the shop,
with Stephen as owner, adviser and creative eye, bringing an artist’s perspective to the design
side.
When Freedom Communication Center closed around 2004, I took the Freedom Web Services name with
me and have
run it ever since. Stephen and I still work closely together, and I still look after all of his
websites more than 20 years on. That’s the kind of relationship I aim to build with every
client: working closely, getting to know your business properly and building things that last.
