{ Kitchen Product Deals }
Kitchen Product Deals utilizes my super-elastic, super-flexible, super-search-engine-optimized rig WordPress template. The rig design can scale to any screen and text-size while fully maintaining usability and eliminating horizontal scrolling as much as possible. While I have yet to develop kitchenproductdeals.com stylistically, I did create its logo and would like to note that the rig template can be adapted to many unique looks with simple changes in color and content (as shown below). The rig theme has also been entirely widgetized for maximum end-user customizability. Every new project that uses the rig theme furthers its development.
{ Lord Yuan Shu }
Lord Yuan Shu took me from a Dreamweaver-ing beginner to a PHP, Javascript, CSS, XHTML, SEO and Content Management System (CMS)-utilizing webmaster. Relatively early on, Lordyuanshu.com received one major overhaul from a basic HTML and Dreamweaver template system to the Joomla content management system. Lordyuanshu.com also featured a PhpBB forum, a WordPress blog and a custom affiliate shopping center of my making (this shopping script was the first major PHP coding project I attempted, and has since been updated several times). Some time later, I transferred the content contained within the Joomla portion of the site into the WordPress database system, reconstructed the site with my rig WordPress theme, and removed the Joomla CMS entirely. The largest part of this process involved converting the PhpBB forum over to bbPress. For that portion of the task I designed several custom PHP scripts to convert the database tables to the new format, and several more regular expession routines that further filtered the main content. With this site I continue to learn much concerning search engine optimization and generating income online.
{ Scott Counseling }
I enabled Scott to sell his eBooks on his site Scottcounseling.com via the ClickBank payment processing service. I have also updated Scottcounseling.com on several separate occasions. I initially constructed Scottcounseling.com using the Joomla CMS; some time later Scott opted to convert his entire website over to the WordPress platform instead and, myself having extensive experience with both platforms, I had to agree with his decision. Since then I further optimized Scottcounseling.com's on-page search engine factors and internal linking structure when I updated the website to utilize my rig WordPress theme. I also designed the new Scott Counseling logo, but would like to simplify it in the future. Creation of the elaborate elastic beach scene backdrop was the most difficult part about this site. Scott likes to sail and I thought the two boats returning safely from an assumed journey represented an apt metaphor for the counseling experience, especially considering the apparent lack of non-clichéd counseling imagery.
{ Garage Entrepreneurs }
Garage Entrepreneurs was my first BuddyPress project. While completing this project I contributed patches to improve the BuddyPress code during a transitional period that involved overhauling its method of theming. Another goal and accomplishment of this project was to use the default BuddyPress theme while refraining from modifying any of its files, instead creating a child theme that bypassed as few of the parent files as possible, mostly hooking functions into the parent template, adding or removing code as needed and thus making future updates quick and easy. I did not create most of the CSS styling for this project, but worked with an up-and-coming designer, mentoring and teaching him about CSS along the way.
{ David B. Beatty }
Davidbbeatty.com is my father's resume website. I converted the site from Yahoo Site Builder into WordPress. I started with my rig theme for WordPress and, even though I updated his original styling some, the design is still fairly retro. The major advantages of the new format, aside from rig's already-mentioned benefits, include a consistent template and an easy-to-use content management system.
{ A Loving Way }
Traci adopted me as her webmaster in mid-2008, and while I didn't design her website Alovingway.com, I did correct several major issues with the website and I continue to perform other requested updates regularly. Watch Alovingway.com for exciting changes!
