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KeithPhipps.com Jordan Hoffman dot Com San Dimas Community Post Charwritescode.com

KeithPhipps.com

Objectives:
  • Simple, clean, black-and-white site redesign
  • Update article archive and organize it for easy reference
  • Design pages and sections for special projects such as podcasts, a soon-to-be released book, and more
  • Display collections of articles by publication, most recent, and where appropriate, by TV show
  • Update site weekly with newly-published articles

Highlights:

Keith is a pop-culture writer whose work regularly appears in publications such as GQ, TV Guide, Vulture, and more. He publishes several articles a week, and has done so for years, so his body of work is vast. He needed help streamlining the process of keeping his archive current and organized.

Clients like Keith don't come around often. He had clear goals in mind for his website and just needed some help implementing them. His vision, along with his easygoing nature, made the work feel effortless. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with such an accomplished writer.

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Skills used:
  • Site design using Squarespace CMS
  • Organization of a large archive with proper tagging and categories so collections could easily be referenced and curated on the website
  • Streamlining the process of adding new articles to the archive for ease of use

Jordan Hoffman dot Com

Objectives:
  • Move the site to a new webhost
  • Redesign the site with a simpler, less busy-looking layout
  • Keep the sci-fi/space look and feel, but do something fresh
  • Keep an intact archive of the previous incarnation of the website and make it accessible on the new site

Highlights:
Jordan's website had a massive amount of writings dating back to 2004. It wasn't lost on me that this archive — more than a gig of plain text — was my client's hard work spanning more than 15 years, and he was trusting me with the task of moving it twice throughout the course of the project. After I successfully transferred the site to its new host, I felt much more confident about moving it again when the site retired to the archive directory upon the new site's debut.

Jordan was one of my first freelance clients, and I will always appreciate his confidence in me. That meant a great deal at the time since I was so new to working in web development. It was easy working with him thanks to his kind and fun demeanor, and he set the bar unfairly high for future clients.

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Skills used:
  • WordPress theme customization
  • Improved functionality and security with WordPress plugins
  • Site movement from one web host to another

San Dimas Community Post

Top Accomplishment:

My first task upon joining the team was to redesign the San Dimas Community Post website on WordPress. Team leaders researched function and design features they liked in theme templates, and we worked together to conceptualize a theme that fit these criteria.

Once that was established, I went to work customizing a WordPress theme that fit the new vision, while adhering to already-established branding and style guides. I troubleshooted and fixed technical issues as they were detected.

We successfully launched the redesign in February 2021, just a little more than a month after I joined the team.

Current Duties:
  • Assisting staff members with questions and general usage issues
  • Troubleshooting technical issues
  • Reseraching methods for how to best display special projects
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Skills used:
  • Re-acquainting myself with WordPress framework
  • WordPress theme customization
  • Research and implementation of WordPress plugins to enable features such as surveys and site backup
  • Most importantly, teamwork!

Char Writes Code (this website!)

How It Started:

This site was originally built in nothing more than good ol' HTML and CSS in May 2021. It served as a major class project with the objective of showcasing my work in a portfolio site. I wrote every bit of code by hand, from scratch, and loved every minute of it.

How It's Going:

Today, the site evolves alongside the new things I am learning. For instance, I rebuilt the site in Bootstrap 5 (September 2021) so I could practice using the framework shortly after I learned it. Most recently, I recompiled my CSS styles with Sass (October 2021). As I keep learning new things, expect to see them here.

Skills used:
  • HTML, Sass, Bootstrap 5
  • Just enough PHP to customize the contact form

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