Desktop Design

I was hired on by All American Roll Models both as a Web and User Interface Designer and Front End Developer. I worked with another freelancer with whom I knew who developed a custom CMS for the organization. Focused on assisting spinal cord injury survivors, they required a setup that allowed different levels of access for both mobile and desktop users. I designed many iterations of the website to be used, and although much of the page content has changed since last I handed the project much of the usability remains the same. I developed the front end using Foundation 4 by Zurb with jQuery scripts and page templates with PHP provided by the Back end Developer. .

Admin Design

The admin end of the website was created with intent to make seamless transitions during the creating of events and news for registered members. The Design itself was fashioned for changing the event photos much like a Facebook cover photo and to use google maps to generate location for events, with text data to be sent as reminders when selected during preferences.

Theme Modifications and PHP Functions.

The River is a project I was hired on for to fix a number of Wordpress UI related theme errors and modifcations. These updates included mostly jQuery and and PHP scripts to be rewritten to allow for different navigation patterns in the website. Once written, further population of the data was automated and the client no longer had to concern about it changing unfavorably while pushing content to the website.

Image and CSS Corrections.

Another of the issues that needed solving, was that the theme didn't match the original design by the client in its color scheme. Parts of the website that used images to create folding effects, had to be remade in different colors while the CSS was altered to allow for the seamless change in colors in the website. The two displayed images here are white, while the footer of the actual website is a slighly darker hue.

Cross Browser, Woocommerce and Theme Development.

Similarly to the River, this is another project I was hired on as a Wordpress theme editor. During pre launch there were numerous modifications that needed to be made to allow for the proper scaling of objects in the DOM for different browsers, most notably Internet Explorer. Other changes included a slew of changes to the theme itself assisting in the end result we now have. These include but are not limited to changes to pop up displays and the overall functionality of the woocommerce plugin, exclusively for this website.

Javascript plugin errors.

In addition to the standard cross browser and PHP errors that were prevalent at the time, other notable Javascript conflictions had arisen at some point during development preventing tabular data, ( most notably in the product review section )from showing. Through some troubleshooting with the plugins being used with woocommerce and others being used for front end development, I was able to identify and remove the errors restoring the theme back to its intended behavior.

From Youtube to the Wordpress.

The PLC Professor is the website for the registration and product purchases for the PLC professor youtube channel. Having been using an older website for a while for processing payments the PLC professor was looking for a way to push his video content and provide more options for the sale of his products as well as adding responsiveness for mobile users. Establishing a good framework for his setup, I aimed to extend as much control over the website data as possible, since so much needed done. The end result was a website that could have nearly any part of the data changed either by a metabox, theme option or via a framework option.

Woocommerce, Mailchimp and extensions.

Once the design was complete and the site was merged over, I did a full security audit, set up SSL for purchases and registration and extended Woocommerce and the registration system with Mailchimp and USPS. I then linked his services together so that he could control everything except for video uploading on youtube at his website dashboard. Now the PLC Professor can make money on youtube, while simultaneously blogging, keeping track of his clients and sell products without having to repost all of the content in different locations.

Novell Groupwise Email Client Development.

Some time after graduation at the college, I was hired on by the Marketing Department in KVCC Brand Central, to help develop email templates for their Groupwise client. As I'd had a lot of experience working email templates from using Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor, other clients and doing custom development for LKF Marketing this was no problem.

For the time I did this , I was simply given PSD's to convert to Groupwise templates. I did this for a few months for their newsletter until I was finally hired to create several dynamic templates for the college to use, which should still be used to this day.

Server update and website fixes.

When I was first hired to work on Dynamic Rehab I was thrust into a position where there was no one taking care of the server. I was entrusted to upgrade and correct any flaws and to integrate the Wordpress theme I was given to the website. It wasn't long before the website was entrusted to me and I took over hosting as well prior to the launch of the blog. I did a backup and made an image of the entire website and merged it over to my server where I did frequent security updates and edits to the main pages using PHP and Javascript

Blog Development and Maintenance.

Once the Blog was launched, I continued to due security regularly while the marketing campaign for Dynamic Rehab started. As that continued and new materials were required I uploaded media and to the system and provided reports on data. For its marketing campaign I also developed branded Mailchimp templates and integrated with Facebook, Youtube and Vimeo.

Mobile stylesheet development.

Ever since Responsive websites became a thing, I've done as many websites as possible responsive. Although I typically prefer to use existing frameworks like the popular Bootstrap and Foundation frameworks, this is not always possible when using an existing theme. in this project, the client had a specific desire for how things would look when event venues were interacted with, but positioning and the CSS was preventing this. My job was to fix that.