About

From storyboards to servers.

We’re 3w, a web studio in Dublin founded by Alex Shanley. Design, build and everything that keeps a site running afterwards sit in one place here, rather than being passed between four.

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Alex Shanley, founder of 3w.

Background

  1. 01

    Motion picture arts

    Wolverhampton University

    Storyboards, sequence and timing. What to show first, what to hold back, and how long a moment needs before it lands.

  2. 02

    Graphic design

    Griffith College Dublin

    Typography, hierarchy and grid. The craft of telling somebody where to look without ever telling them.

  3. 03

    Full stack development

    UCD Professional Academy

    Everything that happens after the design is signed off, which turned out to be the part most studios quietly hand to somebody else.

So we kept going. The unglamorous half of the job now takes as much of the week as the drawing does, and it is the half that decides whether a site is still standing in two years.

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Most people who build websites come from one side of the work. We came through both.

What we do

Design
User flows, wireframes, prototypes, visual design and accessibility.
Build
HTML, CSS and JavaScript day to day. Python, Flask and Django where something needs a back end behind it.
Run
WordPress, Webflow, Wix and Squarespace, on Plesk and Cloudflare. DNS, SSL, staging and migrations included.
Integrate
REST APIs, live financial feeds, CRM systems, PCI-DSS payments and app store releases.

The numbers

20+
Client sites built and maintained
10+
Live platforms under management
6+
People led on product delivery
Every qualification at first class honours
  • UCD Professional Academy Full Stack Development, 1:1
  • Griffith College Dublin Graphic Design, 1:1
  • Wolverhampton University Motion Picture Arts, 1:1

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