charlesroper.com

Hello. I’m Charles, a digital worker from England. I’ve been helping people and organisations with digital since 1994.

I like:

• ethical, accessible, sustainable, and user-focused digital services;
• the open web, good causes, great design, thoughtful code, clear content, coherent systems, critical thinking, progressive energy, holistic strategy, agile delivery, healthy communities, equal societies, living nature, relatable science, stimulating art, (counter)culture, and environmental vitality;
• being a better dad, son, and citizen;
• Tottenham Hotspur (COYS)¹.

I currently work with an environmental education charity founded in 1943. We have field centres and learning locations throughout England, Scotland, and Wales.

I have previously worked with wildlife conservation charities, environmental data centres, major theme parks, globally famous tourist attractions, a performing arts festival, a high street bank, an arts and technology college, a local community centre, a London cathedral, and a spice island hotel in Zanzibar (among others).

I have worked as a digital services manager, a technical lead, a developer, a graphic designer, a web designer, a biodiversity data manager, a GIS wrangler, a teacher, an IT technician, and a CIC director.

I am honoured to have served over two decades with charities and non-profits.

Fun facts: My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, which I received for my 10th birthday in 1985. I am GitHub user #176 and Stack Overflow user #1944. My greatest claim to fame is a letter published in issue 71 of Sinclair User magazine, February 1988. It's all been downhill from there.

This is a web page.

There’s not much here.

Just words and a few icons.

The words are marked up in HTML and styled with CSS. There's a smidgen of JavaScript and a webfont, too.

The web page was uploaded via FTP to a web server hosted in Lancashire, England.

You’re reading it wherever you are.

And that’s still pretty cool.