The University of California at Berkeley's College of Engineering had a huge demand for WordPress sites and not enough staff to handle each request individually. Their marketing team asked me to build a theme framework that would offer a few color scheme options in compliance … [Read more...]
Texas A&M University at Qatar conference network
I had worked with Texas A&M University at Qatar before to set up last-minute sites for events. We agreed that this was not the ideal process, and they set aside some time for me to create a better solution. We set up a new multisite network and created a sample site with … [Read more...]
Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases
The Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases, a part of Texas A&M's AgriLife division, is a research center focusing on animal disease. In addition to the usual news and informational pages, the site needed to showcase the Center's research projects, tools (the finished … [Read more...]
Technology in Higher Education Conference
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 make it responsive, and I worked with them to determine content … [Read more...]
Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering
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 used Genesis to get things going quickly. … [Read more...]
Texas A&M University Writing Center
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 -- if only they knew how. I updated the to … [Read more...]
Texas Transportation Institute Events
TTI asked me to help them implement a custom post type for their conferences (essentially an upcoming events system) and to replace the defunct CheezCap plugin they'd been using to manage per-site customizations for their Genesis child theme. I implemented an … [Read more...]
Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory
TVMDL was moving into WordPress with the help of some very talented in-house people, but they were having trouble getting past their old content. I did a content inventory and helped them implement some of the changes they wanted to make to the AgriLife parent theme. Along the … [Read more...]
Texas A&M University at Qatar
The Texas A&M campus at Qatar had been up and running with WordPress for a while, but they needed a review of their custom theme. Its developers had, as it turned out, done a lot of things on the checklist of what not to do. The theme included the complete source code of four … [Read more...]
South Central Writing Centers Association
This was one of the fastest migrations I've ever done. I was asked to see what I could do with the site without spending a lot of time on it. I ran its files through the HTML Import plugin, cleaned up and reorganized the content, and moved the new site to wordpress.com... all in … [Read more...]
