New Service: Website Health & Performance Checkup — $150 – $300 flat
(cost depends on site size)
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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
I’ve freelanced continuously as a web designer and developer since 2007, with several full-time and contract roles layered on top along the way.
2024 - 2026: Application Development & AI-augmented development
A period of deep exploration and building — developing new applications, integrating AI into my workflow, freelancing and volunteering for KYRS.org.
- Color Labels for Posts and Pages — A WordPress plugin designed to ease navigation in the WordPress dashboard. GitHub link here.
My original blog post explaining this plugin - P5VJ — A browser-based, interactive live visuals SPA (single page application). Built with the JavaScript library p5.js, by myself as a former VJ. Currently a work-in-progress prototype built at my custom configured VPS. Check it out at p5vj.com.
- Bay Area Limo company website — I’ve made tons of sites but this one is a recent example of my WordPress work encompassing all aspects: Design, development and SEO. iblacklimo.com
- Actively working with AI tools including ChatGPT and Claude for augmented AI development workflows
- Several other applications currently in development, available to public by Fall 2026
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 a wide variety of clients’ websites and sometimes helping build new ones. Most were WordPress sites with custom themes. Feel free to ask about my role with any of their sites. Brand It Advertising website
2016 - 2023: Creekmore Marketing (freelance)
From 2016 – 2023 I worked as a freelancer for this great marketing company out of Lexington, KY. They give me blog posts in Word format & featured images, then I made 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 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)
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 7/5/2026: I’m aware these 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. Which I want to take on soon as an AI challenge, to see if it’s possible to bring this back to life with AI tools – which would be incredible & make this an even more robust sample. This was quite a project & has been my best interactive animation project since my Flash days & before I created P5VJ. Link 1 | Link 2
Click the ‘back’ button to see the lander pages I set up that come before these interactive tours.
2007 – 2015
This is where the foundation was built. My paid web work began in 2007, and it’s been continuous ever since.
- 2007–2010 — My focus was Flash design/development and presentation development, back when Flash was the medium for interactive and animated web experiences.
- 2010–2011 — Studied Office Applications and Web Design at Interface College in downtown Spokane.
- 2011–2012 — A transitional year in Spokane: freelancing, plus office and baking work for a local restaurant, and a short-term contract role as a Video Engineer supporting Google (through a localization vendor) — helping produce how-to video content for the Google Drive suite, localized into four languages.
- 2012–2013 — Moved to Seattle and landed my first WordPress role at Rotovac, a mid-sized international manufacturer of carpet and tile cleaning equipment. As lead webmaster I handled roughly 600 client websites and their servers, plus graphic design, product photography, customer support, and print production. This is where my WordPress work began — and it’s been a throughline ever since.
From 2012 onward, WordPress became my core specialty, alongside continued freelance and non-WordPress web work.
Tech, Skills, Experience Resume
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- Web design & development (including application development)
- SEO / GEO / AEO
- (interactive) Animation
- Graphic Design
- Generative AI
- Presentation development
- VJing (live video mixing)
- WordPress, many other CMSes
- Divi, Beaver Builder, tons of other themes & plugins, WPMU, WooCommerce
- CLI (Command Line)
- Site performance tools
- ChatGPT Plus, Codex w/ VSC
- Claude
- HTML5
- CSS3
- SASS - certified as of 5/2/2024
- JavaScript, JS libraries
- PHP
- MySQL
Blog
The WordPress plugin I recently made: Color Labels for Posts and Pages
This is v1.2.0 of it: Color Labels for Posts and Pages - in progress, in my Github repo. 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 I...
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
If you know me, you probably know I’ve been experimenting with animation since the late '90s. I even worked as a Flash designer and developer back in the day. But when Steve Jobs – and soon after, the whole web industry – publicly rejected Flash in the 2010s, I...
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