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Firelight Kitchens Site Build
Built this custom wordpress child theme for Firelight Kitchens. Firelight Kitchens in an outdoor/indoor kitchen consultant based here in Austin. FLK provided the design, which was created by Tenderling. Several custom elements were needed that I built into the theme, the home page needed images to fade in and out, as well as a section…
Light Doodler at Art Outside 2011
We were accepted into Art Outside 2011 with Light Doodler, a bit of a deviation off of LZR with the predominant aspect being user interaction instead of a light show. It turned out working better than expected, we set the wall up and walked away and every time we would walk back we would see…
Cullinan Park Conservancy Site Build
Site built for Cullinan Park Conservancy in Sugarland, TX. I designed and built this site, site design was finalized after one round of revisions. Site features photo gallery, event listings, photo contest, twitter feed, and site search. Site was built using a custom child theme for thematic, on wordpress cms.
GraceMedia Site Upgrade
Helped out Will Hornaday’s sister upgrade her site for Grace Media to wordpress, she wanted to be able to post “News” items to her site. Took her original site and built a theme based on her previous design.
Eagle Mineral Company Site Build
Eagle Mineral Company needed a site built, and built quickly, I put this together overnight and they were happy with it. Sometimes short and simple is all you need.
Xavier Rudd Print
Mel won a meet and greet with Xavier Rudd, really nice guy. I managed to shoot this with my phone while we were all standing around, and Mel posted it to Rudd’s wall and told him thanks. We were then contacted by a Rudd fan, Mark, in the UK who wanted a print, and so…
San Antonio Botanical Gardens
We walked around the San Antonio Botanical Gardens, shot a few pictures of the place. Had a fun time feeding the wildlife. [flickr_set id=”72157633535738333″]
Hornaday Design Site Build
My colleague Will Hornaday asked me to build his portfolio site that he designed. I built the site on wordpress, and used the viewport theme to achieve the sliding panels of the portfolio pages, then created a custom template for the blog pages. I used jquery to create the fade-in animation as the home page loads, and used this…
Eagle Service Group Site Build
I designed and built this wordpress site for Eagle Service Group. I worked with the client through two rounds of design revisions, then built the theme using thematic. I used MMForm Community to handle the various forms on the site, it is a good form plugin, and it’s free, another option if you ever need…
Never use Godaddy and WordPress, but if you do you can try this to fix your speed issues
I’m writing this as a simple reminder to all people who operate wordpress sites. If you want to run your own copy of wordpress on your own server, do not use godaddy as your server provider. Now that I’ve had two clients have come back to me regarding performance issues, I must write this in…