FirstCall is the helpdesk site for the AgriLife division of the Texas A&M University System. I worked with the in-house team to rewrite the content, reorganize the home page and the site navigation, and design a WordPress theme that reflected the organization's new, … [Read more...] about FirstCall
Theme Development
Cassie Alexander
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 magic so the text of Cassie's blog posts wraps around … [Read more...] about Cassie Alexander
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...] about Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases
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...] about Technology in Higher Education Conference
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...] about Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering
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...] about Texas A&M University Writing Center
Strategic Research Development
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 simple theme (a child theme … [Read more...] about Strategic Research Development
Team Human
The authors of this collaborative novel wanted a small website, separate from their own, to showcase the new book. To get things up and running quickly and inexpensively, I wrote a WordPress theme based on _s and Bootstrap, with a color scheme based on the book's cover. Since … [Read more...] about Team Human
Hungry Monkey
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 changes, the design was so different that I simply wrote the theme … [Read more...] about Hungry Monkey
Justine Larbalestier, 2008
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 look of the site and make it easier to maintain. The old design included … [Read more...] about Justine Larbalestier, 2008
