About Primesolid
Primesolid is the company of Chris How, peripatetic programmer and web-wrangler.
I’ve over 10 years experience developing for the web, and specialise in open source software, rich client-side experiences, desktop-like interfaces, and robust back-end infrastructure.
I take your design, markup, or idea and make it do stuff.
My expertise includes Javascript, jQuery, PHP, Linux, perl, apache (I’m a mod_rewrite/mod_proxy guru), MySQL, custom content management systems, Wordpress, dynamically generated graphics, geodetics, geovisualisation, statistics, Google Maps API, EC2/S3 and lots more.
Primesolid is a UK limited company, registered in the UK for VAT.
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Russell-Bell.com
Showcasing Russell's clean and detailed illustration, the site is built using the latest one-page techinques and includes a shop where you can buy prints.
The site is responsive to any sized window, fully content-managed, and works great on mobile browsers.
Design by Melissa Price.
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WeAreCulture24
Built in Wordpress, with design by Crush Creative, this site for cultural organisation Culture24 features a one-off theme and many custom features.
The site is fully content-managed, search-engine-optimised to the hilt, and works great on mobile browsers.
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Carte Blanche
Promoting the new James Bond book by Jeffery Deaver and built in utmost secrecy, the Carte Blanche website features a no-interface background video player (built in haXe), a live twitter feed and a content-managed news feed.
Due to the 'bursty' nature of the expected demand for the site, the hosting infrastructure is specially designed to be able to handle huge concurrent loads, and uses a content delivery network.
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Print Process
Designed by Michael Place at Build, the Print Process online store supplies high-quality prints of the best in contemporary design.
Fully content-managed and HTML5-compliant, the site has extensive yet easy-to-use adminstration tools and a full suite of order-management and tracking features.
Check out the unobtrusive code which re-flows and re-paginates the product to fit your browser window, and the AJAX-y goodness of the basket system.
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Crush Creative
The new Crush website shows off hundreds of images, slideshows, videos and PDFs of some of Crush’s recent and best work.
The web application is fully content mangaged, allowing Crush to keep the site up-to-date with news and new work in an incredibly flexible but easy-to-use way.
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Craft Club
Designed by Crush Creative and implemented by Primesolid, the Craft Club interactive map shows craft-related activity across the UK.
Users can instantly add their own craft club, shop or event to the map.
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Agency Rush
Beautiful and fully content-managed, the Agency Rush site showcases work from their stable of talented illustrators.
The custom content management system allows Agency Rush to keep the site up-to-date with new work and news.
The site has some great features, including the ability to add work to a lightbox, then download a customised portfolio pdf.
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Shit My Dad Says
Launched to support the release of the now best-selling memoire by Justin Halpern, the site allows users to contribute their own fathers’ pithy pearls.
Design by the guys at Crush.








