Fixes, Updates
new features, upgrades, fixes- HTML/CSS/JavaScript/PHP (includes customization of current theme)
- Performance Optimization
- SEO
- Integrations, APIs, Configurations
- In-Site Applications
- Custom Plugin Development
- WordPress Plugin Configuration
Full Site Creation
web design, development, SEO- Design: UI, Layout, Imagery, Styling (can match business's exisitng theme)
- Content filling (you supply the content)
- SEO
- Built with Optimized Performance
- 1-25 Pages
- content creation: In some instances I may create content, we can discuss
Maintenance Service
updates, checks- Theme, plugin & WP Core updates
- Security checks
- Web presence, SEO & site rank monitoring
- Performance monitoring
- Performance Optimization (see Fixes package)
- Setting up, configuring tools for monitoring (see Fixes package)
Portfolio & Work History
2022 - 2023: Brand It Advertising
My ‘Web Specialist’ role at Brand It involved wearing the hats of web developer, web designer, SEO specialist & AI specialist. Managing, fixing, updating, reviving a wide variety of clients’ websites and sometimes helping build out new ones. Feel free to ask about my role with any of their sites. Brand It Advertising website
2018 - 2020: Hagadone Media & Creative (HMAC)
2016 - Present: Creekmore Marketing (freelance)
Since December 2016 I’ve been working as a freelancer for this great marketing company out of Lexington, KY. They give me blog posts in Word format & featured images, then I make sure they’re published & SEO-ed properly for roughly 200 of their clients’ websites. I’ve learned a lot of great SEO stuff from them & this job has kept me on my toes, making me more detail-oriented because they are strictly against even minor errors. All site work involves many CMSes, HTML, CSS, some JS, Photoshop. Creekmore Marketing website
2015 - 2016: Maids by Trade Webmaster (temp position)
In this period of time I was hired on by the president of Portland’s #1 rated house cleaning company to help solidify their #1 search engine ranking and to make their site perform as well as possible in all aspects.
2015: Interactive Tours for Republic (Waste Management Co)
I was offered a gig to develop two flash-like interactive tours to educate site visitors about this facility’s operations, with landing pages. Coding & software involved: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Adobe Edge Animate, Photoshop, Illustrator.
Coding & software involved: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Adobe Edge Animate, Photoshop, Illustrator.
EDIT 10/15/2023: Recently realized the following sample links no longer work, possibly because the combination of code has fallen out of date, or anything from Adobe Edge (which is now nonexistent) won’t work in browsers anymore. Looking to resolve this because this was quite a project & has been my best interactive animation project since my Flash days. Link 1 | Link 2
Click the ‘back’ button to see the lander pages I set up that come before these interactive tours.
Before 2015
I may detail this history a bit more later but most of it isn’t relevant to the work I’m doing now and where I’d like to go in the future. Some notable history is this though:
- My first full-time web design/development job was for a company called Rotovac in the Seattle area, 2012 – 2013. A mid-sized, international company that makes carpet & tile cleaning gear. I learned a lot & had many responsibilities. I was the lead webmaster in charge of all aspects of roughly 600 clients’ websites including the servers they were on, lead graphic designer, customer support, product photography, the editing & printing of manuals and more. This is when I got my first experience in WordPress
- From 2007 – 2011 my main specialty was Flash. Building, updating, fixing, re-doing & maintaining Flash sites.
- I’ve teamed up with many tiny web design/development/marketing companies before, since 2007
- Many years working as a bread baker & pastry baker
Tech, Skills, Experience Resume
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- Web design & development
- (interactive) Animation
- Graphic Design
- Presentation & eLearning course development
- SEO
- Apparel design
- Generative AI
- WordPress, many other CMSes
- Divi, Beaver Builder, tons of other themes & plugins, WPMU, WooCommerce
- CLI (Command Line)
- Site performance tools
- ChatGPT (GPT-4)
- Writing & proofreading
- HTML5
- CSS3
- SASS - certified as of 5/2/2024
- JavaScript, jQuery, p5.js, React (currently learning)
- PHP
- MySQL
Blog
The WordPress plugin I recently made: Color Labels for Posts and Pages
This is the first version of it: https://github.com/bridean/color-labels-for-posts-and-pages. A while ago I thought, it'd be really useful if I could navigate through WordPress pages, posts that are color-coded (coloring the whole page/post menu item HTML element) so...
Earned SASS certification today from Codecademy
Link to it here: SASS certification from Codecademy. I always wanted to have a fuller grasp of SASS, by now I feel much more confident with it. If I can justify giving myself the time to do so I'd like to experiment with it more including in an artistic manner. I...
How I Got Into p5 Creative Coding: My Intro to p5.js
As you may or may not know, I've been dabbling in experimental animation since the late '90s and I was once a Flash designer/developer. Since Steve Jobs -- and hence the whole web industry -- publicly rejected Flash in the '10s I became adrift in the...
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