years of building the web. 25 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.
Seven 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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Technical Consulting
Stack audits, architecture reviews, performance work, and senior-pair guidance for teams that picked their tools but want a steady hand on the project.
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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. Custom builds that hold up under real traffic.
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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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Online Marketing
SEO, paid media, email, analytics — connected to the site, not bolted on. Strategy you can actually measure, not vibes and dashboards.
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Branding
Wordmarks, logo systems, and the typographic discipline that ties them together.
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Goofing Off
Side projects, weird experiments, learning a new tool just because. The work that pays for the work that pays.
A few projects worth showing.
Three case studies. Click into any of them to see process, decisions, and outcomes.
Twenty-five years on the web.
My IT career started before the web did, wrangling networks and servers on the back end of small businesses. Then in 2001, I built my first website: table layouts, sliced PSDs, Flash sites that took 90 seconds to load. 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 dog PP. 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.
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