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Andrew Mark Media · Midlands, UK

Modern Laravel platforms, engineered to last.

I design and build business-critical web applications on Laravel, Vue and CoreUI — and modernise the legacy systems that hold teams back. Nearly three decades of shipping software, from first line of code to production support.

Solutions architecture Full-stack delivery WCAG-first interfaces
Order #10482 paid via Stripe
Stack
Laravel Vue CoreUI
29
years building for the web
320+
MVC triads modernised in one application
5
payment gateways integrated
3
teams coordinated in one solution — UK, US and Brazil
Laravel Vue CoreUI PRO PHP 8 Bootstrap 5 JavaScript Stripe PayPal AWS Docker PostgreSQL MySQL GitHub Bitbucket
Services

Specialist delivery across the modern PHP stack.

From greenfield builds to rescuing a decade-old monolith — focused engagements that turn business requirements into maintainable, accessible software.

Laravel Application Development

Robust, well-tested back-ends built on SOLID principles and proven design patterns — ready to scale with your business.

  • Domain modelling & solutions architecture
  • Queues, jobs & scheduled processing
  • Testing, CI and Laravel Cloud deployment

Vue + CoreUI Admin Systems

Fast, intuitive back-office tools and dashboards using Vue and CoreUI PRO components your team can extend.

  • Data-dense tables, forms & workflows
  • Role-aware admin panels
  • Consistent, themeable design systems

Legacy Modernisation

Incremental migration of ageing Yii, jQuery and vanilla PHP code to modern frameworks — without stopping the business.

  • Codebase audit & impact assessment
  • Strangler-fig migration plans
  • jQuery UI → Bootstrap / CoreUI

API Design & Integration

Versioned REST APIs and decoupled service layers that bridge old and new systems cleanly.

  • Proxy & service-layer architecture
  • Command / Strategy pattern design
  • CSV bulk import, export & queues

E-commerce & Payments

Checkout, invoicing and payment flows integrated with the gateways your customers trust.

  • Stripe, PayPal, Sage Pay, WorldPay
  • PCI-aware payment processing
  • Shipping-rate & order automation

Accessibility & Leadership

Mobile-first, standards-compliant interfaces — and the technical leadership to keep teams shipping.

  • WCAG 2, EN 301 549 & Section 508
  • Fractional tech lead & mentoring
  • Release & roadmap management
The Stack

Laravel, Vue & CoreUI — one coherent system.

Each layer does what it does best. Together they give you a productive, long-lived platform with a polished interface out of the box.

The dependable core

Routing, queues, auth, testing and first-class integrations — Laravel keeps business logic expressive and the codebase approachable for every developer who follows.

app/Actions/ChargeOrder.phpPHP 8.4
final class ChargeOrder
{
    public function __construct(private PaymentGateway $gateway) {}

    public function handle(Order $order): Payment
    {
        // Strategy pattern: Stripe, PayPal or Sage Pay behind one contract
        $payment = $this->gateway->charge($order->total, $order->customer);

        OrderPaid::dispatch($order, $payment);

        return $payment;
    }
}

Reactive, delightful interfaces

Vue's Composition API brings rich, app-like interactivity to the screens that need it — without the weight of a separate front-end team or a fragile build.

resources/js/Pages/Orders.vueVue 3
<script setup>
import { ref, computed } from 'vue'

const props = defineProps({ orders: Array })
const query = ref('')

const filtered = computed(() =>
  props.orders.filter(o => o.customer.includes(query.value))
)
</script>

An enterprise-grade UI kit

CoreUI PRO supplies accessible, production-ready components — smart tables, multi-selects, date pickers, steppers — so effort goes into your product, not reinventing widgets.

OrdersTable.vueCoreUI PRO
<CSmartTable
  :items="filtered"
  :columns="['customer', 'channel', 'total', 'status']"
  column-filter
  column-sorter
  pagination
  :items-per-page="25"
/>

<CDateRangePicker v-model:start-date="from" v-model:end-date="to" />
Proven at scale

The stack behind some of the world's best-known names.

When you invest in Laravel, Vue and CoreUI, you're building on the same foundations as these organisations.

CoreUI 58M+ downloads
  • Adobe
  • Samsung
  • Intel
  • NVIDIA
  • Cisco
  • Dell
  • Deloitte
  • Accenture
  • Bank of America
  • Citi
  • PayPal
  • DHL
  • Bosch
  • Philips
  • NBCUniversal
  • Maersk
Source: coreui.io

Organisations shown are published users of these technologies. They are not clients of Andrew Mark Media and do not endorse its services.

Approach

A clear path from idea to production.

Structured, transparent and collaborative — you always know what is being built, why, and when it lands.

Discover

Requirements elicitation and functional analysis with your stakeholders — internal and external.

Scope & success criteria

Architect

Solutions architecture, data modelling and a delivery plan matched to your team's skill-set.

Technical blueprint

Build

Iterative, tested delivery across the full stack with regular demos and no surprises.

Working software, weekly

Support

Release management, monitoring, bug fixing and a roadmap for what comes next.

Long-term partnership
Selected work

Platforms that run real businesses.

A cross-section of recent products and enterprise engagements — from commerce platforms to legacy transformation.

Laravel Vue CoreUI 2025

xSeller8 v4 — E-commerce Management System

A ground-up rebuild of a proven commerce platform, combining a Laravel back-end with a Vue and CoreUI admin experience.

  • Deep Stripe integration — site owners manage Stripe services directly from their admin.
  • Manual order & invoice creation so staff can process telephone orders.
  • Carrier API integrations for precise shipping charges at checkout.
Discuss a similar build
New manual order Telephone
Oak serving board ×2£64.00
Linen napkins (set of 6)£28.50
Courier — next day£6.95
Total £99.45
2022 – 24

Frontend Modernisation

Converted an enterprise Yii 1.1 monolith from jQuery UI to Bootstrap 5 — mobile-first, WCAG 2.0, EN 301 549 and Section 508 aware — across 320+ MVC triads.

Yii 1.1 Bootstrap 5 Accessibility
2024 – 25

REST API Service Layer

A framework-agnostic PHP 8.3 service layer proxying external APIs via Command / Strategy patterns, with queues, CSV bulk import/export and a built-in API debugger.

PHP 8.3 REST Design patterns
2024 – 25

Device Configuration UI

An interface to create, send, edit and remove remote monitoring-device configurations, with AJAX proxying and accessible progress feedback.

PHP 8.3 JavaScript Bootstrap 5.3
2022

Click & Collect System

Wholesale click-and-collect with Sage, PayPal and Stripe (including buy-now-pay-later), plus email via SMTP / AWS SES and SMS notifications.

PHP Stripe AWS SES
2017

xSeller8 Booking Platform

A multi-tenant booking system for hospitality and salons, handling deposits and full payments with isolated client, invoice and calendar data.

Multi-tenancy Payments Bootstrap
2014

xSeller8 v3 Commerce

Self-service website and store management with customer accounts, auto-invoicing and integrations from Google Maps to four payment gateways.

PHP jQuery Payments

Have a platform that needs to move forward?

Let's map out what modern Laravel, Vue and CoreUI could do for your business.

Experience

Developer, architect & team lead.

A professional approach to both code and design — equally at home working independently or alongside stakeholders and teams across time zones.

  1. 1997 — Present

    Founder & Principal Developer (Full Stack)

    Andrew Mark Media · Midlands, UK

    Nearly three decades of bespoke PHP applications for businesses across the UK and Europe — e-commerce and payment systems, booking platforms and email tooling — alongside brand, catalogue and print design. Now back full time, focused on modern Laravel, Vue and CoreUI solutions, and bringing enterprise-scale experience to every engagement.

  2. 2022 — 2026

    PHP Developer (Full Stack), Project Lead & Line Manager

    Global security services enterprise · UK & Northern Ireland

    Led the modernisation of a large legacy platform, owning functional analysis, solutions architecture and delivery across the full stack. Managed and mentored developers and collaborated with teams across multiple time zones, ran interviews and reviews, and steered release management.

PHP

Laravel Livewire Yii Slim Fat-Free PHP 8.x

JavaScript

Vue React Vanilla JS jQuery

Interface

CoreUI Bootstrap Tailwind Vanilla CSS

Platform & APIs

Laravel Cloud AWS EC2 / SES Docker Stripe PayPal Sage Pay WorldPay Google Maps eBay API

Practice

Solutions architecture SOLID & OOP Design patterns API versioning Testing PCI compliance GDPR WCAG Team leadership

Always learning

Dedicated weekly study through Laracasts, Vue Mastery, Laravel Daily, CodeCourse and more — keeping every engagement current.

How I lead

I don't manage people. I build trust.

Great software comes from teams who feel safe to raise problems early, own their work and do their best thinking. Whether I'm leading developers or working alongside yours, trust is the thing I build first.

“Trust is earned in small, consistent moments. That's where good delivery starts.”

Transparency by default

Clear priorities, open progress and no surprises, for teams and stakeholders alike.

Ownership, not oversight

Developers own their work end to end, with support on hand rather than someone watching over them.

Playing to strengths

Technical direction shaped around business goals and each person's skills.

Honest delivery

Risks raised early and estimates you can rely on. Bad news travels fast.

Ways to work together

Engagements shaped around your team.

Whether you need a single focused deliverable or ongoing technical leadership, there's a model that fits.

Audit

Modernisation Review

A fixed-scope assessment of your existing codebase with a prioritised, costed roadmap.

  • Architecture & code-quality review
  • Accessibility and security findings
  • Migration strategy & estimates
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Lead

Fractional Tech Lead

Senior technical leadership for teams who need direction without a full-time hire.

  • Roadmaps aligned to business goals
  • Code review & developer mentoring
  • Release & stakeholder management
Talk leadership
FAQ

Good questions.

Can't see yours? Get in touch — I'm happy to talk it through.

Laravel gives you a productive, secure and well-supported back-end; Vue adds rich interactivity exactly where it is needed; CoreUI PRO supplies a polished, accessible component library. The result is faster delivery, a consistent interface and a codebase that is easy to hire for and maintain.

Yes — modern in the way that matters to a business: current, fast and supported for years, not merely new. Laravel ships a major release every year (this site runs Laravel 13), Vue 3 pairs the Composition API with lightning-fast Vite tooling, and CoreUI PRO is under active development with v6 already in alpha. You get today’s best practice without betting your platform on a framework that may not exist in eighteen months.

Yes — this is a speciality. I have migrated large monoliths, including a Yii 1.1 application with over 320 MVC triads, using incremental strategies such as decoupled service layers so the business keeps running throughout.

Primarily remote, collaborating with stakeholders and teams across multiple time zones. On-site workshops in the Midlands and wider UK can be arranged when they add value.

I have integrated Stripe, PayPal, Sage Pay, WorldPay and 2Checkout over many years, and design payment flows with PCI compliance and GDPR in mind from day one.

Absolutely. I regularly lead, mentor and review the work of developers, and can slot into your existing tooling — GitHub, Bitbucket, Jira and your CI/CD pipeline.
Contact

Let's build something exceptional.

Tell me a little about your project. I'll come back within one working day with initial thoughts and next steps.

Emailme@andrewmark.media Phone+44 (0) 7926 040530
LocationMidlands, United Kingdom · Remote across UK & Europe

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