Web Design & Development Projects

WordPress Development | New Features | News Website

Telegraph Local came to me with an existing site and asked if I could help them setup a login wall for advertisers.

I did some research on pre-built solutions that have the following features:

Custom user roles
Restrict content by role on the front-end
Custom login and registration for roles
Social logins (not required, but nice to have)

There are a lot of options that offer one or two of these but we settled on RegistrationMagic for one, three, and four and Content Control for two.

Being that we found pre-built software as a solution, that drastically reduced the cost of these features.

We also did a little more work making sure their Ads Pro plugin was working as expected and actually uncovered a couple bugs that we were able to submit to the plugin maker.

Website Maintenance & ADA Compliance | Web Design Agency

We continue to do work for a local agency. We’ve worked on three different sites for them over the past couple months. Some of the work has been maintaining WordPress sites, but the bulk of the work has been getting these sites ADA Compliant.

Website Development | Shopify Website | New Features & Edits | Supplement Website

Websites have never been easier to build without developer help then they are now. This is a good thing, it drastically lowers the cost to get online for a lot of small businesses!

This client had put in the time to build a nice looking Shopify site but ran into some blockers when they tried to customize it. They sought out a developer to handle these customization’s and we were able to help them quite effectively.

Website Development | UIUXPros

This was a site we built for our friends at UIUXPros. They’re a very talented web design firm in Denver and we help them bring their designs to life.

The original goal with this site was to leverage an existing WordPress theme that included a website builder that would allow the client to have full control over the content without needed to reach out to a developer for changes.

After some research we recommended a pre-built theme and they designed using functionality already pre-written.

The end result was a site that was drastically cheaper then the typical re-design without sacrificing quality.

One highlight from this project was our use of Elementor templates which allowed us build the structure of the page using templates that can be saved to the code repository, imported to the staging site for testing, and then deploy to the live site. This allows us to control the code very closely, while still offering the freedom to the user to make changes.

Website Maintenance & Features | Festpass

Web applications require constant maintenance because the internet is constantly evolving and improving. Luckily, when you work a lot with open source packages, most of the improvements and updates are made for free by the community, but it still takes a little time to update to the latest packages.

One highlight from this latest round of updates on this project is how important it is to choose the right language and frameworks.

This project is built in Node with a nosql database. All of this software required updating, but most of the changes needed came for free.

We also added several new features to the system and updated a couple designs.

Website & Email Migration | Bee Natural

This client came to me with quite a large problem. He had a web developer that no longer wanted to maintain his websites and he needed them moved from the current servers. These sites also had 4 email accounts that needed to be moved as well.

The site migrations were easy enough with only a couple minor surprises, like the fact the sites hadn’t been maintained for a long time.

The email migration proved more challenging. After some trial and error with the first account, we were able to get the other three migrated without a problem.

We were able to make the transition without any loss of data or downtime, but migration is always time consuming. This is why hosting providers make the initial cost so low, because they know that the switching cost is very high.

The big take away here is that you should spend a little bit more up front to have a solid web strategy, rather then always slapping things together till they work.

User Flow & Wireframes | Guardian

We started working with a small team on a project to disrupt their industry with a web application that was more user friendly than anything available.

We started where any wise team starts, focused on the user. We created a user flow, which is like a plan for how we think the user is going to want to flow through the application.

We also started on the wireframes, but our project came to an abrupt halt when their current sass application announced a re-design to make their app more user friendly.

This paused our project for obvious reasons.

IOS App | Defend Your Money

This project was very fun and also very valuable for my client.

We’d already built a web application and our client asked how hard it would be to create the same application on IOS. The answer is unfortunately harder then you’d think.

That said, we’d used some cross-platform technologies in the past like Ionic, but those projects typically started as IOS apps and the use case was generally to maintain one codebase across Android and IOS, not typically including the web as well.

We dug into our principle of reducing the amount of redundant code and went on a search for some open source software that could help us maintain one codebase across multiple different platforms (IOS, Android, AND the web).

We found Capacitor, but it was just in beta. We talked with the client about the tradeoffs and risk and luckily they decided to take a leap of faith.

We were able to build their existing Vue app as an IOS app and were even able to leverage Touch ID login and Apple payments for the subscription management.

In this end, this was a very fun project and was very valuable for the client.