Design, code, and now publishing — all handled end-to-end, on purpose.
I'm G M Greene — a graphic designer and web developer working under Verkko Publishing PT, a small independent imprint I run from rural central Portugal.
I've spent over twenty years designing and building websites, most of it self-taught the way a lot of the best web work still is: by building real things for real people and fixing what broke. For more than two decades that's meant working alongside AtoZ Guides, a long-running Greek island travel series, handling the website development and book jacket design while my business partner Tony Oswin writes the guides themselves.
More recently that same discipline has gone into my own writing. I've written and independently published Well… How Did We Get Here?, a book on technological determinism, and The Compassionate Table, on plant-based living — both produced end to end, from manuscript to cover design to the Amazon KDP publishing process itself. It's part of why the publishing service on this site isn't theoretical: I use it on my own work first.
On the web side, I build the way I'd want a site built if I were the client: bespoke WordPress themes coded by hand, no parent theme, no page builder, no plugin stack doing a job three lines of PHP could do better. It takes longer to set up than dragging blocks around a builder. It also means the site still makes sense — and still works — a few years on, which is the part most agencies quietly stop caring about after launch.
These days that same approach is going into A Nossa Casa Grande, a nineteenth-century schist-and-granite quinta near Mortágua that my partner and I are renovating into a vegan guest accommodation — four apartments, each named after a piece of literature that matters to us. If you want proof this whole "design it, build it, mean it" approach isn't just a line for the website, that project is a good place to look.