About (This Site & Angela)
An introduction to Angela McCall, the person, the mother, the digital creative, the entrepreneur, the freelancer of 27 years and now (soon to be) lecturer to post-16 + students in the education sector!
Welcome
Thankyou for wanting to know a little more about who I am beyond what it is I do!
This page offers a glimpse into the person behind the projects, sharing the experiences, values, and interests that shape both my professional journey and everyday life.
About This Full-Stack Custom-Built Site!
I began my freelance career building websites from the ground up using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL. As WordPress and other CMS platforms emerged, they dramatically reduced development time and made content management easier for clients, leading me into many years of professional WordPress development.
Today, however, WordPress has become increasingly complex, often impacting site speed, performance, and SEO. As a result, I've returned to custom, ground-up development using modern tools and best practices—creating faster, cleaner websites and aligning closely with the approach I now teach.
So I can assure you that this website is a perfect example of a full-stack web development project allowing for simple, effective and powerful search-engine indexing of everything I explicitly declare needs logging!
About My Multi-Disciplinary Digital Creative Title
During the span of 27 years, there is not alot I have not tried, done, tested, and explored in relation to website design, graphic design, digital marketing, sales funnel strategies, mobile app game design, business entrepreneurship, hosting business expo's, whiteboard animations, video editing, and publishing two YouTube channels and more...
So much so that I've dedicated a full page to my career, allowing you to know why it is that I know write this blog, and share my skills and knowledge with the next wave of like minded go-getting tech savvy entrepreneurs and web developers!
Family-Life!
Along with my two teenage daughters (shown above), we have a 4 year old German-Shepard & Border-Collie cross named "Buddy" who keeps us all fit and active and in recent months he has been training to run with me (off-lead) as I train for the London Marathon. So he is litterally my "running buddy"!
Hobbies & Interests
I'm a huge fan of the game of darts and play as regularly as I can in local leagues and national competitions. I also love to run (albeit slow and steadily), as a family we are massive fans of roller-skating and on the odd occasions when time allows, I love to get outdoors and go hiking!
Why I've ventured into Teaching
I've been fortunate to have had a successful career as a freelancer, in my 20's it allowed me to work around travel, uni and to buy my first home. In my 30's it allowed me to raise a family whilst still doing what I love. However, as my daughters have grown older, I've found myself wanting to give back and share my knowledge and experience with others, to have a different pace of life and to mix-life up a little as I've been freelancing for almost 3-decades! Teaching allows me to do this, whilst still being able to manage my own time and commitments around my family life and keep one-foot in the freelance industry with a select few clients whom I've been working with for years!
So during the 2025/26 UK academic year, I've become a full-time student training with Bedford College, but under the tutelage of Huddersfield University.