Development
Here you’ll find some things I’m working on. Most of my current work is in managing, maintaining and updating WordPress sites for small and medium sized businesses, but occasionally I work on a few fun side projects.
M60 Design Group
M60 is a small company I created to manage all of my freelance work and side projects. I’ve worked with many companies over the years in several capacities. Here are some recent jobs and a couple of highlights:
FoodserviceIP is a research-based management consulting firm that specializes in foodservice.
Maintenance, security, general web consulting and problem solving for their WordPress / Divi based site.
Haley’s Corkers are the creators of an incredibly useful and innovative wine corker.
Site migration and hosting. Maintenance, security and general web consulting. Help managing their WooCommerce sales system for their WordPress / Divi based site.
Pentallect is a boutique food industry consulting firm specializing in business and strategic planning.
Site migration, security sweeps and some general consulting for their WordPress site. Recently helped setup their Events Calendar ticketing.
Negative Gain has been around since 1997 delivering classic industrial, EBM, darkwave, coldwave, post-punk, and goth music to the masses.
Designed and built a few versions of this site over the years including its current iteration built on WordPress using a custom Underscores theme (though a Gutenberg rebuild is coming).
ATI Physical Therapy is a nationally recognized rehabilitation provider, specializing in research-based physical therapy.
Consulted on the migration and information design of their on-prem SharePoint to an updated, redesigned Modern SharePoint implementation.
Dutch Farms is a family-owned company offering a full line of farm-fresh dairy products including quite good cheese.
Built their main WordPress site (designed by YNR Design), which they used for a little over a decade. Preformed ASP to PHP form conversions and provided occasional additions over the years.
Dialogistic Industries
Dialogistic Industries designs human-led, AI-enhanced workflow architecture and framework design tools. These can help small and medium sized business stay competitive without sacrificing the value and creativity of their people or creating massive overhead and costs.
Below you’ll find some hand-coded things I’ve made over the last few years. For a while I had some business page designs and WordPress themes featured, but with AI page builders so common, that stuff seemed far less compelling. I’m not called on to do this type of thing much professionally, but they are a bit if fun.
Unfortunate Destinies
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This is a site I built to host a game I was creating. It was kind of a battle of wits against an insane AI, which was pretty complex. Now I can build a similar scenario on any number of AI character platforms, making this thing kinda pointless, but there is a thing I might do with it all when I get a chance.
Giraffe Ninja
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This is little animated illustration I did for my friend’s birthday gift.
Aligning a few animations and having them all work together is sometimes a little tricky. There’s a better method to this than the one I used, I’m sure. Also, the textures were a bit of a pain, in that they’re not ideal for image optimization, which is good to have when this many elements are involved.
I mounted all the images into one large, scalable SVG. That took care of the element alignment. For the image optimization, I said, “forget it” and put everything behind a loader. The textures in the image are worth it to me, and the loading time is relatively low.
The Bus Stop
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Here’s another css animated illustration. I likely won’t be doing more of these for fun, as they’re a lot of work and you don’t get much out of them.
This is another effort in my wanting to create a single, scalable / responsive block. It has all the same pros and cons of the giraffe one I did.
This mostly works. It may have timing issues in Safari. I think I’ve got those worked out, but Safari has shifting sands sometimes with its interpretation of certain css rules.
Susan’s Pet Care
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This is a site I built for my friend Susan. She decided to go back to office work instead, but I like this site so it’s here for posterity if nothing else.
Oh, there were some hopping frog sprites I had running in the animated hero section. I never quite got the timing right on those. I’d forgotten about that until just now. Those are a challenge.
The frogs… well, I haven’t solved that problem yet. I’ll add those in soon, then I’ll talk about how I did them here.
Mr. Bearington
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Just a fun little animation I made for a hero section of a site I was working on. It scales really well and shifts to a single bear layout on mobile. Neat.
The Drive
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Here’s another css animated illustration. This is a work in progress. Right now, it’s a simple animation of a 1955 Chrysler Imperial convertible driving along with wholesome abandon.
Space Business
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I built this with the idea that I would send it around to businesses or maybe give it to current clients to help the consulting process. It came out a little too cute for its purpose. I still think it looks cool, though.
Donut Thing
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This is just a thing I created with jQuery a while back. I’m not sure there’s any real reason to have it here… I just like it.