I built a WordPress plugin for displaying the weather forecast. The forecast data is pulled from the NOAA NWS Forecast API. The plugin has a shortcode that can be placed on a post, page, or in a widget, anywhere you want to show the forecast. The shortcode takes two perimeters: 1) the location (as latitude, … Continue reading NOAA Weather Forecast – WordPress Plugin
Projects
Here are some of the sites I’ve built. The sites are also organized by the technologies they use. Click any of the tags to see more projects of that type.
New Website for New England Society of American Foresters
One of the new websites I’ve built recently was for New England Society of American Foresters. NESAF is a professional organization for foresters in the Northeast started in the early 1900’s. Rebuilding a large website with many priorities can be intimidating. To make your rebuild feel less daunting try following the simple process we used … Continue reading New Website for New England Society of American Foresters
Rebuilding The SoapstoneWorks Website
One of my recent projects was converting an older static HTML website to a modern responsive website with a WordPress admin system. A static HTML website is hard to update. You need quite a bit of knowledge and skills that’s unlike anything most people have exposure to. However, updating the content on a WordPress most … Continue reading Rebuilding The SoapstoneWorks Website
MJ Harrington Before And After
I built MJ Harrington a website back in 2013, collaborating on the design details with their marketing manager. In 2017 the site was re-built by a local Advertising Agency. Below is the before and after on that re-build. I think the site I built in 2013 looks classier, richer and more appropriate for a jewelry … Continue reading MJ Harrington Before And After
Controlled User Submitted Content
Two clients recently wanted forms for accepting user input. When submitted the input is rolled up into a standard WP Post. But we want to prompt the user for certain types of information in order to generate consistently structured and organized posts. To make this happen I started with a free WP plugin that accepts … Continue reading Controlled User Submitted Content
Warner Realty Partners – Real Estate Website
Yesterday I launched a new commercial real estate site for Warner Realty Partners: Highly customized version of WordPress Spacious theme by Theme Grill. Removed unneeded CSS @media queries for optimal performance. Developed a custom WordPress shortcode to render properties from Catylist MLS on the page. Cached for 12 hours for performance. Good boost for SEO. RETS feed from … Continue reading Warner Realty Partners – Real Estate Website
Falcon Surveying, Inc. Website
I designed and developed this new website for Falcon Surveying, Inc. of Colorado. The site is built on WordPress, with stripped down version of WP Twenty Sixteen template. The template is built really well, but had more screen size variations than this site needs. Stripping out several media query sections helps the site load faster. The site … Continue reading Falcon Surveying, Inc. Website
Solarize Nashua Website
Nashua Solarize+ is an initiative started by the City of Nashua’s Energy Committee based on a national program by the US Dept of Energy. The nation wide initiative is design to increase local green energy adoption by facilitating bulk discount pricing. Pretty cool stuff. PingPR.com managed the project, and I did the design and development. The … Continue reading Solarize Nashua Website
2018 Boone Camp T-Shirt Design
This years Boone Camp T-Shirt Design has just enough changes from last years design to keep it fresh:
Building a Custom Trail Map Using OSM and Mapbox
Here is an high level overview of the process I use for building my own custom hiking trail map. The data I’m using (trails, summits, etc…) are available as open source from OSM. After I fetch and clean up the data I use MapBox to generate the map tiles, in a map style I designed. Query TrailsNH to … Continue reading Building a Custom Trail Map Using OSM and Mapbox
Migrating from HTTP to HTTPS
I recently switched my hiking conditions website from HTTP and HTTPS. Google’s documentation noted there may be a dip in my search rank and traffic while they re-index the site, but my experience was almost no detectable dip in the numbers. Here is the before and after from my Google Analytics account: That being said. Don’t … Continue reading Migrating from HTTP to HTTPS
WordPress for my brother Frank
I recently built a WordPress site for my brother Frank, the mortgage banker. WordPress is a great option for Frank, because it so fast and easy to use. Frank’s been posting news to his blog several times a week and finds WP easy to use.
Joomla Main Menu Bar Change
Applied a few more layout changes to the masoc.net site. As I recommended, the main menu was changed to a horizontal menu bar. This is much more common today than a vertical sidebar menu. The benefit of following the norm here is your user will intuitively will know how to interact with your site, based … Continue reading Joomla Main Menu Bar Change
NH Project Learning Tree Website
I designed the NH Project Learning Tree website based on the national PLT.org website, and a PLT Style Guide published by Texas PLT. NH PLT went with discounted web hosting for non-profits provided by DreamHost. The DreamHost hosting service does seem reliable and fast, however I am not a fan of the hosting control panel … Continue reading NH Project Learning Tree Website
Coups2Cash.com
Last week I migrated Direct Mail & Digital Advertising company Coups2Cash.com, from Joomla 1.5 to WordPress. The new site design was provided by Tom at TG Graphics, Manchester NH. My job was to build the new template (Photoshop to WordPress) and load the content. The end result was not exactly as Tom designed, but a … Continue reading Coups2Cash.com
MtnWeekly.com gets a facelift
For this project I updated the MtnWeekly News WordPress template. I added to the template some widget and menu locations so MtnWeekly News can easy control the layout. The new header got 1) a widget area for ad space, 2) the site masthead, and 3) main menu location. All three can be controlled and maintained using the … Continue reading MtnWeekly.com gets a facelift
Rusticator.com
This was a really fun project, and I really enjoyed working with Paul Pat Morse an artist and jeweler. The Rusticator shop has been selling antiques, vintage and contemporary art, jewelry, for a long time. When I first met Pat he wanted to build this site in DreamWeaver. But I told him how much faster it … Continue reading Rusticator.com
MATSA.info
I built a new WordPress site for MATSA.info using the WP Twenty Seventeen template. This is the first time I have used Twenty Seventeen and think the code is just fantastic. MATSA’s old site had both side bars and a top menu bar, leading to a lot of confusion. Making the site look huge when … Continue reading MATSA.info
ZacharyBerger.com
ZacharyBerger.com is another new WordPress website I’ve built using a customized version of the “Twenty Sixteen” template. The quality of the “Twenty Sixteen” template is fantastic. Perhaps the best I’ve worked with so far. There is lots of custom CSS3 in this project: rounded corner on many elements, background colors, blends and images, and mobile-first media queries. My … Continue reading ZacharyBerger.com
Burns Insurance
Burns Insurance has been my insurance agency for years. So I was thrilled when they asked me to build them a new website. This new site is built using WordPress and a customized version of the “Twenty Sixteen” template. I also made artwork for the header using a photo they took of the office and some artistic … Continue reading Burns Insurance