years of building the web. 30 years of building the web.
I'm Thomas W. Dean III. I design and build websites for companies that care about craft. Flat-file CMSs, custom Laravel, considered typography, motion that earns its keep.
Five things I'm good at.
Not "full-service agency" things. Specific, considered, hands-on craft. I write the code, draw the type, and meet the deadline.
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Web design
Editorial-grade interfaces with type that reads like a magazine and color that knows where it's going. Wireframes, design systems, and component libraries you can actually build from.
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Web development
Laravel, Statamic, vanilla JS. Fast, accessible, and thought-through.
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Branding
Wordmarks, logo systems, and the typographic discipline that ties them together.
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E-commerce
Storefronts that don't look like everyone else's. Statamic + Snipcart, custom Laravel, or whatever the project actually needs.
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Statamic consulting
Audits, blueprint architecture, performance reviews, migrations, and CP-builds for teams who picked Statamic but haven't gotten the most out of it. I've shipped a lot of these — happy to be the senior pair on your project.
A few projects worth showing.
Three case studies. Click into any of them — well, you will be able to in Phase 5. For now, the grid demonstrates layout and hover states.
Thirty years. Same question every day.
I started building websites in 1995 — table layouts, FTP'd up to a Pentium III in someone's basement. The technology has changed every six months since. The question hasn't: what does this site need to do, who is it for, and how do we make it feel like itself?
D3 is me — Thomas W. Dean III. The "D3" is exactly that: Dean cubed, the third one. I design, write, and ship websites for companies that take their craft seriously and want their site to do the same.
I live with Statamic, Laravel, Tailwind, and my two cats. I write the code I show you. I draw the type I show you. If you want a studio with a project manager and a Slack channel of subcontractors, I am not that. If you want one experienced person who'll make your site quietly excellent, hi.
Notes from the desk.
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5 min read
The case for variable fonts in production.
Four years in, variable fonts are no longer a novelty. Here's how I use them in real client work — and why they save bytes and improve craft simultaneously.
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7 min read
OKLCH and the warm dark mode.
Cold dark themes are the SaaS default. They're also fatiguing. A short tour through OKLCH, P3 wide gamut, and the warm-charcoal palette I keep coming back to.
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9 min read
Statamic field architecture for editorial sites.
Replicators, Bard sets, and the difference between giving editors flexibility and giving them rope. A real-world blueprint walkthrough.
Tell me about your project.
Two ways to reach me — book a call below, or send a message. I usually respond within a business day.
Book a call
30 minutes. Free. We'll talk about what you're trying to build and whether D3 is the right fit.
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