Consortium Health Plans came to us with a need for a stunning website. The challenge was to create a site that animated lines and sections as the user scrolled down. The client wanted to employ the latest in user interaction with the site. Almost every element was animated or had some sort of effect added, from the very top to the footer contact form.
I was the only developer on the project and knew that I needed to employ libraries to read user scrolls, draw SVG vectors, and display modern animations. I decide to use a library scrollonAni that triggers AnimateCSS animations for each section depending on the user’s scroll locations.
I make use of SVG path elements and stroke-dash-array settings to animate a dot as it traverses down the screen. Other CSS libraries to provide stylized button hovers and other effects to give the client a stunning site.
Quality Biological came to us with the need to help their growing business. They had adopted a new design from another firm, but were struggling with using their existing Magento e-commerce platform to serve their growing clientele with ever-increasing needs. They needed us to implement a new store and fit in the store elements (descriptions, form fields, etc) with the new design.
The company, which manufactures chemicals and resells laboratory supplies, also needed a better way for users to browse their products. They wanted product pages that were attractive, accurately showed the product through pictures, showed related products, and displayed the product variations offered without creating a new SKU.
I was tasked with incorporating that ecommerce vision while adhering to their new design. I immediately thought Woocommerce would serve them well. I knew it supported variable products and could support purchase orders with vetting. Needless to say, the modernization of their online store continued their upward trajectory.
goDCgo came to us with a need to make their website easier to edit by their writers and administrators. The original developers of the site left the site frustratingly inflexible by providing static templates and hard-coding many critical website elements.
This was a huge problem as goDCgo aimed to be the central source for anything noteworthy happening in Washington DC. From food festivals to holiday events, goDCgo needed a website as dynamic as the city itself.
The result is a practically brand-new website. As the sole developer on the project, I realized that this site had a team of writers with WordPress chops, so I broke up the website into its individual modules and chose the Advanced Custom Fields Flexible Content to give control over sequencing of modules to the user.
I also created the interactive map that uses literally dozens of API endpoints that feed live data relating to locations of various transit options from electric scooters to short-term rental cars.
A premier design and marketing agency specializing in transit, Clark Concepts needed a website that was as visually stunning as the designs they put to either digital or physical print. Clark wanted to stun website visitors from the get-go.
To do this, I put in a video slider that needed to load as quickly as possible. I also use CSS transitions and Javascript libraries to put in advanced hover and parallax effects. jQuery and AJAX is used extensively to create a project browser where users can view and filter the project library quickly and easily.
The WordPress backend was adjusted to allow for easy data entry by the staff, mostly consisting of designers and marketing professionals. With Clark’s great photos, in led to a website with a “wow” factor.
Montgomery County Energy Connection needed an easy way for households in need to find the energy assistance programs for which they qualify. The programs; however, varied widely in terms of energy provider, household size, income level, and geography.
I enabled drop downs whose options change dynamically based on the values entered in other drop down fields. Equally as challenging was finding a way where government officials could log into the back end of the site and make adjustments in an easy-to-understand way.
To enable this, I use Advanced Custom Fields validation to ensure data integrity and accomplished the goal of making program navigation easy for both
Woods & Poole came to us with the need to modernize their practices. A premier source for economic data and forecasts, their website was limited to huge dropdowns to list their thousands of products. Furthermore, online orders were fulfilled by regular mail to deliver data either by print or DVD.
I worked on the e-commerce and part of the design implementation for this site. The game-changer for this company was when all deliverables were moved online. Using Woocommerce and training the company staff on how to bulk upload downloadable products, fulfillment of orders became automatic.
Following launch, we were also tasked with creating a map and geography tool to further help users navigated their vast economic data.
Soltesz came to us with a problem. Their existing website using the Magento CMS was too confusing for their staff and the design was showing its age. They wanted to launch a brand new website in WordPress with a stunning design. The design included a project browser that used AJAX to avoid page loads in addition to other elements with high interactivity.
They wanted to do this while also keeping the many years’ worth of projects and blog posts they had already created. This created a huge data migration task that was made more difficult as each project had custom taxonomies that also needed to be converted to WordPress categories and tags.
The result was a beautiful website that the client loved!
The Foundation for the Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES) is an NIH associated educational facility that came to us with a need to create a more attractive homepage with more modules where current events and news could be featured more prominently.
We added a video slider and created custom content areas for FAES staff to use to easily edit content. Furthermore, we added the ability to add thumbnails to events and news articles to make browsing more pleasing to the user.
We also made an exciting new page to show off housing options for FAES prospective students.
Talk of the Town has historically been and still is a premier destination to rent party equipment, games, and more in the Washington DC area. Using Joomla’s Virtuemart, the client wanted a more modern look to the site without having to migrate the site over to a new ecommerce platform.
Thus, they came to us for a full redesign of their site. They wanted their amazing party products featured prominently in photos. They also wanted a better way to browse by category. Though I didn’t know much of Virtuemart before working on this project, I quickly figured out the architecture and was able to give the client exactly what was wanted.
This gave users the ability to know exactly what each rental looked like and to compile a list ready to make more inquiries when the time arrived.
The Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) maintains a responsibility to keep statistics for all their transit projects. For whatever reason, perhaps an excess in their budget, they tasked us with providing modern data visualization to convey the progress made on their various projects.
Using d3.js, I configured a backend where the MDOT employees could easily update their statistics and have those numbers reflected in real-time on layered bar graphs. This made the data much easier to understand and provided more visual interest.
I provide animated data visualizations that accurately reflected the statistics complete with animations and rollover, which provided the nitty gritty into statistics.
Snell Properties wanted a complete overhaul of their WordPress site with more modern features. I was the sole developer on this project and it had to have all the usual corporate website features, but with a modern twist.
I created a custom lightbox that features their projects. Furthermore, I added a members-only area for investor-related information.
It was a huge step up from what they had before and the client was thrilled!
TTW Solutions is a tech company specializing in DevOps. They needed a new website that was cutting-edge just like the services they provide.
The client purchased a theme from the Cherry Framework that we modified to create a cutting-edge, full width web experience. We leverage amazing images using CSS transitions to create a modern experience.
The client was thrilled and were amazed with how robust it is.
goDCgo, the tourism arm of the DC Department of Transportation, wanted a fun, interactive map using modern web tools where users could easily find event locations and nearby public transportation options. The map would be embedded on the main project page.
It was important that the map’s style and feel reflect the event theme. We use the google-maps-react npm package to set up an easy and intuitive way to code the map using pre-made components. We import styles from snazzy maps and fine tune the level of street and public transit details to include.
Finally, info windows were styled to the event theme. This code is highly reusable as it could be launched on any webpage and restyled to fit any event needs.
The website for my own band Flora Fahna, development of this site was done with speed in mind. The album was out, with all of my time spent producing the album. The website needed to be up by the launch date.
I chose a Materialize layout with many of Materialize’s pre-made modals and gallery packages in order to have cool features available out of the box. I also chose to launch in Python/Django because I knew I could get the templates done faster.
Simple text field and Dynamic Content fields were the only fields added to a simple data model. The launch is done on my own unmanaged cloud VPS using UWSGI as the application interface.