This group needed a site for their conference, and they needed it done in a hurry. They had a Photoshop comp from their designer, but it was a fixed width design, and they wanted a mobile-friendly site. I decided to …
This project came along just a week or two after the Technology in Higher Education conference, and the situation was similar: a short deadline and a design in hand that wasn’t planned with responsive layouts in mind. Again, I …
Cassie had been using WordPress with free themes for some time when she sold her first novel. As its release date approached, she needed a “more grown-up” look. I took advantage of the striking cover art and worked a little …
The Strategic Research Development group was, like many offices at Texas A&M University, stuck with an old Dreamweaver-based website they didn’t know how to maintain. I moved the content into WordPress using the HTML Import plugin, designed them a …
By the summer of 2008, Justine had been blogging in WordPress for some time, and wanted to use it to manage the 100 or so static pages that made up the rest of her site. She also wanted to update …
The author of this charming book asked me to do a simple promotional site. At first, in order to keep the cost of the project low, we planned to simply modify an existing theme. However, by the third iteration of …
When I was hired in 2007, the Writing Center had a complex site built in Mambo. It that hadn’t been updated in a while. Only the director felt comfortable adding anything, and we had forty-odd enthusiastic students who could contribute …
In 2004, I had a dream: WordPress could be used to manage “static” sites, not just blogs. This site was my proof. WordPress had just added its page feature, and the functions for dealing with it were somewhat rudimentary. Today, …