I am Robin Hislop, a freelance web developer based in Brighton, East Sussex with 20 years’ experience in web technologies. I build functional, beautiful web sites for SMEs that help them achieve their online goals.
PHP
MySQL
HTML
Javascript
CSS
SEO
Services
Web Development
I custom build web sites to your requirements, choosing an open source framework that suits your project and plans for the future.
Responsive Theme Design
A substantial and ever-increasing proportion of your customers will be using smart phones and tablets. Your site must be responsive to mobile devices.
Technical SEO
Search engines will supply the majority of your web site traffic. Search engine optimisation should not be regarded as an afterthought, rather the whole site should be built with SEO in mind.
eCommerce
I supply a complete ecommerce platform to manage your inventory, take payments and track orders from sale to completion. I can help you integrate your existing Point of Sale system with your online inventory.
Content Management
A CMS like WordPress and Drupal allows you to manage your site content yourself, without having to depend on external web developers. I provide the training, documentation and support for your staff.
Website Maintenance
My maintenance service keeps your site up to date the latest security updates and makes regular backups to the cloud. And you have the peace of mind of knowing I am on the end of the phone if you need me.
Data Migration
Whether you need to migrate content from a legacy system; publish data from a back-office database on your site or integrate your web inventory with your in-store POS system, I can help.
Website Customisation
Sometimes the standard modules and plugins don’t have the functionality you need. I can build custom modules or modify site templates to your exact specifications.
Latest Projects
Got an interesting project?
I’m always happy to have a chat about your plans.
Latest Posts
WooCommerce make UK county checkout field required
I was recently tasked with setting the County (billing_state / shipping_state) fields in the WooCommerce checkout to be required fields. The standard way to override these billing and shipping fields is to use the woocommerce_billing_fields...
Strip shortcodes from WordPress posts
A regular expression to remove a particular shortcode from WordPress posts using search and replace, while leaving the content intact.
WordPress post content search and replace in the database using SQL
Perform a bulk search and replace of WordPress post content using an SQL query in the database. And find out about alternative methods.
WooCommerce hook on product updated or added
WooCommerce doesn’t provide a hook which runs when a product is saved or updated in the admin. Find out which WordPress hooks to use for this action.
Create WooCommerce coupons programmatically
Create a WooCommerce coupon in code using the woocommerce_get_shop_coupon_data filter. Useful for validating a coupon with an external API.
Debug WordPress by logging hook calls
Learn how to log every action and filter hook call in WordPress. Identify which processes are running and which are resource intensive and need optimising.
Testimonials
Robin made quite a complicated job seem straightforward and made sure we understood how to operate the system so we could be self-reliant straight away. Robin also saved us money by finding alternatives to paid plugins. If you’re looking to set up an e-commerce store, I recommend speaking to Robin.
Dan WebbWorking with Robin at Moot Point has been a real pleasure. His ability to explain the technicalities of SEO in a language I understood was great. There really was so much we weren’t doing as a business to increase our SEO which Moot Point was able to rectify very quickly.
Louise Hill