The Utah County home builders at Innovate Construction called our mutual friend two weeks before their first entry into the Utah County Parade of Homes. They needed a website and fast! The mutual friend, a local website designer, called me. Originally, for speed’s sake, I picked a WordPress template with the idea that we could just slap some photos and text in and we’d be done — lickety-split. However, the designer...
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This was my first self-chosen creation using React and Axios. The “Full-CRUD” site hits an external API to pull in a random quote which can then be saved, edited, retrieved or deleted.
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PostPiston was my personal project during my 3-month immersive bootcamp experience at DevMountain. Of 18 student projects, PostPiston was awarded “Most Technical”, one of five prize categories. The idea stemmed from my 15 years as a website marketer. Competing sites, Hootsuite and Postpiston, are great for sharing your pre-written tweets, but PostPiston actually helps you create tweets and links back to your content. Tech...
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Another online app coded in React/Redux. When our class at DevMountain was asked to submit ideas for group projects, most of us submitted one or none. I submitted six! The BiPolar News concept was the most-popular of the six. This photo is of the Intro page, which gives a good, brief description of the site. This is what the site looked like after one and a half weeks of effort by our 4-person team. Because two of our team were very...
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Another long-term client has been CSB Nutrition. Here’s an archived shot of their original website before I came along: Nice, eh? Well, after they saw so much success (in spite of their website) they ended up moving their operations into a much larger building in nearby Spanish Fork, Utah. Here’s the first website I built for them (click to enlarge): A few years later, in 2015, the owner ran across his...
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Emily Bouchard, of Blended-Families.com, was my third customer back when I went full-time in SEO and web development in 2003. We met at an entrepreneur’s boot camp in LA. I built her initial site from a simple template and coded all the content myself in HTML/CSS. Through my SEO efforts, I was able to get her site into the top 10 Google search results, and keep her there, for years. Over the years, I served as her on-demand...
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