This is Practically
Meet the Team
We are a small team of web specialists, with a can-do attitude. Expertise in web software development, design thinking, UX, SEO and web design.
This is what we really do
We are great at…
Web Design & Development
We can really help you with your…
Strategy & Digital Expertise
We also make awesome…
Bespoke Web Apps & Large Scale Development
Ben Heppenstall
Owner & Managing Director of Practically.io and Owner & Technical Director of Edge Digital. Having taught ICT & A Level Psychology he started his first web development company in 2000. Having worked in digital marketing and web app development for the last 20 years he now leads a team of techies building bespoke websites, complex business systems, proprietary tools and optimising search performance. He is an accomplished musician, enthusiastic dingy sailor and squash player and a proud father of three daughters.
Sam Collett
A creative technologist with 25 years of experience for brands big and small. Sam has worked at many award-winning agencies creating, but also dreaming up, many, many campaigns, sites, apps, games and digital things. A designer by training, he takes a strategic and playful approach to everything – be it a growth hack or a project plan.
Sam also works as a lecturer at University of Worcester on the Graphic Design and Game Art courses, both of which he helped write.
Stu Carter
Neil Davies
Neil is our longest standing employee and our lead developer.
He is responsible for output and core updates for our systems and CMS. Neil plays guitar in a band on the weekend, making him quietly cool!
George Cadwallader
George is another former student at the University of Gloucester.
A truly core member of the team, he works on high-end app development and has a soft spot for React.js, and apparently, Bonsai trees.
Alex Chera
Alex is a front end coder who works largely in that tricky world of WordPress, JavaScript, CSS and PHP. A graduate from University of Gloucester Alex did his work experience year with us, and never left.
Alex is handy to have around on pub quizzes when it comes to the Star Wars or World War rounds.
Dave Boon
Whilst primarily a technical web developer, Dave’s background in IT (gained in both small agencies as well as large security focused multi-nationals) gives him a diverse range of skills in many technical areas. He has experience working with a varied list of clients and loves nothing more than helping them creatively solve problems they have.
Outside of work, he has a love of football & manages a children’s football team, as well as being actively involved with a charitable youth organisation.
Agate Brice
Agate is our designer, illustrator and amazing creative. A graduate from Worcester University, she is part of the more marketing and SEO led, WordPress focused, team producing everything from leaflets to logos to videos, alongside our more normal web site designs.
She really really loves dogs. And coffee.
Malc Adams
Malc is our superstar React.js developer who comes to us with a weight of experience: over 20 years on the front-end and a degree in illustration.
Feed him coffee and some circa ’90s dance music and he will make you amazing things.
Malc also loves his sport, especially dancing – breakin’ and poppin’. Perhaps you’ll find him in the middle of some dance floor in Cheltenham. Or maybe in the park, by the swings, with his daughter.
Blue
Our (sometimes) office dog.
He has a habit of eating large birthday cakes when no one is looking. @blue_17_walks
Decades of experience
The way we do things here at Practically has evolved from our start year of 2006, as well as our collective web knowledge reaching back to 1997. Our weight of experience is balanced with “young blood” from our partnerships with the University of Worcester and University of Gloucestershire, where we teach and offer internships.
We would love to chat with you
Have a read of some team nonsense news
Our inaugural FedEx Day
We here at Practically took 24 hours out of client work to do our first FedEx day – so called because you deliver something the next day. We wanted to show off the creativity, technical process and breadth of what our small team made.
What is a business web application?
This Whitepaper is jointly written by Job Bains of Obsolete.com and Sam Collett at Practically.io. See more about us at the end of this document.