This is a timeline of all the projects I’ve been a part of on the web since starting in 2007. This is a work in progress, dates are as accurate as I could get them, and unlinked projects are either not maintained, defunct, or just not published.
Regardless of the industry, when people care deeply about what they’re making and who they’re helping, it shows.
Not my typical project these days but I quickly put this together for a friend of mine. His flat-file PHP site was a little long in the tooth so, using his brand colors, I whipped this up all in-browser. Fast, responsive, does the job!
Concept for a log of search terms with no results on a WordPress site.
Just HTML, CSS, and JS goodness! Design by Ernesto D. Morales
In one of those “meant to be” moments, I met the founder and president of the mind-bogglingly talented craft beer agency here in Seattle, Blindtiger. Oceania (Oce for short) invited me down to the office to talk shop and it just clicked.
8-month engagement to provide engineering, strategy, code review, pair programming, performance reviews, and security guidance.
A few details about the current (5th) iteration of this site.
A WordPress child theme gone mad! Built-in click statistics, moderation controls, grabbing text and images from submitted links, and expiring content.
Just in time for an announcement by Microsoft about their HoloLens project, we launched a complete site rebuild for 8ninths, focusing on their VR and AR capabilities.
Responsive, pretty, and no database needed! Design by Ernesto D. Morales
This theme is an extension of a framework created for a local agency that wanted a way to spin up custom WordPress sites quickly and correctly. It grew into the starting point for all sites that I create.
Diagnosed and recommended fixes for a very slowly loading WordPress site populated dynamically via API.
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Helped create a UI, migration, and technology plan for the Seattle Children’s Hospital blog channel combination.
Hashtag buzzwords! Used the 18f U.S. Web Design Standards framework to a great result. Write-up coming soon!
This was a fun little project for a branding and marketing group out of San Francisco. They were working with […] ›
This site was a partial migration from a custom PHP and MySQL application that was in dire need of an update. Collaborating with a talented designer, I built a site housing almost 400 products and dominates search ranking for high-value, niche terms.
Built RSS export views in EE to create WXR-formatted files for custom content types; output via shortcodes and custom widgets, per spec.
Alan Colmes needed a central hub for his news curation and community surrounding his radio show and books. We’ve been iterating on this site for a few years and finally settled on a very customized version of the WP-Drudge theme I created.
My latest shipment comes in the form of a premium theme called Rank It WP. The idea, explained in-depth after the jump, is a Product Hunt-type site in WordPress.
A how-to article I wrote combining the WP-Drudge theme with an RSS aggregation plugin.
Fully-customized version of the WP-Drudge theme for a new tech news site.
Collaboration at Codefellows to build a Node.js and Angular-powered SPA to add and graph data about sleep, exercise, nutrition, and other metrics.
Node.js and Backbone SPA to find fun stuff along a map route. Collaborative project at Codefellows.
A massive undertaking: migrate a popular eCommerce site from unsupported versions of Drupal and CiviCRM to WordPress. Challenge accepted!
An article I wrote on SEO best practices for curation and aggregation sites.
Wireframes, design review, and ground-up responsive build
Massive upgrade project for Social Media Today’s 8 popular Drupal communities including RSS aggregation and curation, user-submitted content and profiles, and event registration.
How I came to love a sandwich without meat.
Working efficiently without losing track of the details.