About Ash Glover
Ash Glover
designer & web developer
Ash Glover thinks in systems and lives in culture. He’s a Cape Town-based designer and developer who’s been building on the web since 2002.
Ash is equally at home writing API integrations as he is covering Comic Con on YouTube.
Ash uses his 20+ years experience to create beautiful, minimalist design and solutions that just work.
Outside of work, he is interested in comics, vlogging, surfing, and exploring Cape Town.
Here's what I do:
- Web design and development, custom WordPress themes and plugins, built from scratch
- Online business tools: dashboards, client portals, booking systems, e-commerce
- Agentic AI workflows connected to your real business data, not generic chatbots
- API integrations that make your existing tools talk to each other
- SEO audits, strategy, and ongoing search optimisation
- Google Ads and paid search management
Influencer
Ash has covered Comic Con Africa since 2018 and become a fixture in the geek culture community, with videos going live daily during the events. His coverage now appears on official Comic Con Africa channels.
If you’d like to collaborate with Ash on your brand, request a rate card below.
Career Journey
Key Roles and Milestones
In June 2018, I realized I needed a change
and a challenge - I decided to leave the
comfy life of formal employment and strike
out on my own again. Find out a bit more
about my decision in this youtube vlog post.
During my time at Benchmark Digital, I learned a lot about development workflows and processes, and working with larger teams.
I focussed on full-stack web development for large Drupal projects as well as a few WordPress websites.
We did some pretty cool work.
I started One Part Scissors with a friend in 2002.
We built awesome websites and print design projects, as well as a few radio ads, and even a television ad. Many of the sites we built are still up and running after many years.
What is Ash's personality type?
It means I’m wired to pull things apart and figure out how they actually work, not how they’re supposed to work. I get genuinely interested in problems most people want to hand off. I’d rather understand a system end to end than follow a process I don’t trust.
The upside for you: I don’t build things by copying what someone else did. I think from first principles, which means the solution I land on is usually the right one for your situation, not a template dressed up to look like one.
The downside, if you can call it that: I’m going to ask questions. I want to understand your business, your users, and what success actually looks like before I start anything.
97% assertive, apparently. Which probably explains why I’ll tell you when I think you’re solving the wrong problem.