A world-record adventurer deserved a better website.

The old site was built on a drag-and-drop website builder — fixed at 1024px wide, heavy with tracking scripts, and slow on anything that wasn't a desktop. The rebuild is a Next.js app served from Cloudflare Workers: dark, editorial, and built around Scott's photography.

My favourite part of the rebuild is the adventure map: an interactive 3D globe with 153 of Scott's photos pinned where they were taken, clustered by expedition. Spin it, pick a cluster, and browse the gallery — filterable by country — from the Black Sea row to bikepacking through Uganda: the range of a firefighter who keeps saying yes to the next expedition, raising money for charity as he goes.

The old site was slow and hard to use — and the numbers agreed. The rebuild pushed every Lighthouse category into the green: performance and best practices to a perfect 100, SEO to 100, and accessibility from a failing 56 to 96.

Sites like this have become a repeatable practice for me: build it in Next.js, migrate years of content off whatever dated platform it was trapped on, and wire it to a CMS — here, Sanity — so the owner can add the next chapter themselves without ever touching code.

The only genuinely new thing each time is the client's existing setup: which provider they're on, how their DNS is wired, and what has to move without the site going dark for a second. Everything else is a path I've walked before — which is exactly why it comes together quickly and cleanly.

Scott didn't want a redesign for its own sake. He wanted somewhere to promote his public speaking, a way to show people where he's been — that's what the map is for — and out from under a web provider that had quietly become expensive.

He got all three: a custom site built around how he actually works, room to grow as the expeditions do, and a hosting bill a fraction of what he was paying before.