Rory Allen's Websites

Me

I'm Rory, live in London, UK. I make websites for fun and for for free using the programs/tools listed at the bottom of this page.

If you have an idea for a site that you want help with or want me to make or think I could incorporate into a site I've already made, please please please tell me, I love making websites!!! I answer every single (non spam) email sent to rory@hogwild.uk.

The Sites

Every live site I have worked on (all but one are solely my work). Listed in alphabetical order.

🐗 Hogwild.uk

Scrollable map based homepage for the imaginary universe of The Wild Hogs

📖 Hogipedia

Wikipedia style lore library for The Wild Hog universe

🦆 Hook-A-Duck

Fishing for ducks in the Thompson World bath

🥪 Meal Deal Maker

Name your favourite Tesco meal deals

🃏 Newno

A rulebook for my friends' house UNO rules

🎲 Nothing Ever Happens

Moneyless betting between friends

🎵 No To Algorithms!

Humans only music recommendations

🎸 Otala

My band's website including automatic gig counting

🅾 Otaladle

Stupid Wordle clone, you can guess what the word is

🔊 Seasoning

Website for live events promoter

💡 Strobe

Make your screen strobe with set speed and colours

🚰 The Valve That Failed

Experimental collaborative site with Jack McInnes

🏠 Thompson World

A hand drawn interactive recreation of our old shared house in Sheffield

The Tools

I love FOSS (Free Open Source Hardware) and use it where I can. I like it old school and with NO AI EVER.

1. A Dell Laptop (given to me by my friend Johnny) running Linux (Debian).
2. Emacs for editing all the files - I don't use an IDE or any kind of live testing editor, just refresh the files in Firefox.
3. A standard LAMP stack for testing the sites locally - all free and easy.
4. Affinity for editing images - sadly not FOSS but free and easy for me to use after using Adobe products for so long.
5. Git for managing versions and collaborations - irreplaceable and useful for working locally on a site and then making it live.