Charles Ryder
I am an interdisciplinary arts professional specialising in design for the internet, promoting creativity through classic design and optimised technology.
Design for the modern world
My clients include artists and performers, composers and musicians, curators and collectors, poets and writers.
I offer:
Prompt attention
Artistic sensibility
Technical expertise
A global perspective
Intelligence and finesse
Flexibility and affordability
Literacy in the arts and culture
Friendly response to early-stage project enquiries.
Highlights
I have been creating websites for 18 years. Many of my first sites are still going strong, evolving over time along with the internet. My goal is to create distinctive, personalised websites dedicated to personal creativity, professional skills, artistic collaboration and cultural enterprise.
Piano tuner Tim Hendy is one of my original website customers. His website is founded on good user experience, reliable information, solid bookings, page one search results, and a bit of playfulness. It is a success.
Calum Storrie is an exhibition and museum designer based in London. He is a serious client with definitive tastes and standards for style, presentation, balance and narrative. When these things are known, a webmaster has an opportunity to focus on the craft of coding and the implementation of special features.
My friend Julie Marino is a New York playwright and storyteller. We are interested in exploring the pictorial potential of the web to make pages with a convincing sense of spatial depth. To create a sense of place in the browser.
We have created two websites. Welcome to the Caravanserai is Julie’s portfolio site, showcasing her plays and literary vignettes. The single page Synesthesia Radio Theatre is more experimental, a kind of podcast webpage mashup.
“I believe in the transformative power of storytelling. Since humans began to speak, storytelling has been how we discover, how we learn, how we understand, how we create and transcend. It’s how we construct our world and our selves.”
You can learn more about my clients and my approach to building websites on my page dedicated to practical advice for website owners.