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When a programmer takes someone else’s code and then starts modifying it for their own needs or with their own features, we call that “forking” a project. People do this is an all kinds of other domains too, such as revising someone else’s contract for their own needs or modifying a recipe for their own […]
Our neighborhood schools facing interesting challenges. We’ve been helping one local school’s administration tackle annoying paper cuts with a homegrown custom-built platform (that we have boringly called School Year), and one of the tasks is to manage donations. One type of donation, grade-wide school fundraisers, require every family to contribute. In the past, tracking that […]
For the first time in its history, NASBE launched a digital-only version of the State Education Standard, a refereed journal that provides insight into education policy issues that are significant for state boards of education. We designed and built the new digital-first theme, based in WordPress, which gives priority to on-screen readibility for all devices, […]
After witnessing and benefiting from the first two years of Petworth PorchFest, we volunteered our time and corporate resources to build a website for the annual event. It's the event's first website and we plan to add a variety of interactive features in the future, in particular for the day of the event.
We're pleased to announce the launch of the State of WIC microsite, a site we built for the National WIC Association. The report—supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation—highlights the experiences of WIC providers and stakeholders, including during the COVID-19 pandemic, and will serve as a resource for WIC administrators, providers, and researchers. The optimized, WordPress-based website […]
We're pleased to announce the launch of the first version of the WIC Research, Policy and Practice Hub, a project completed on behalf of the National WIC Association (NWA) in Washington DC. Built atop a solid foundation using the latest version of the WordPress Content Management System, we layered on several Angular-baed single-page application (SPA) […]
The popular furniture and home decor search engine, ATTIC, has been released as a beta version in two new cities: Philadelphia and Boston. The new version is expanded to include new cities and neighborhoods in two important vintage furniture markets. The Philadelphia site will include midcentury furniture stores, antique dealers and similar in Philly proper, […]
Developed and deployed new Google Accelerated Mobile Project (AMP) formatted pages for ATTIC DC, a Washington DC and Baltimore area vintage, antique and used furniture website. The new AMP pages will take advantage of Google's new quick loading format in mobile search results. The work led to the production of more than 15,000 AMP-based pages […]
Building off of our work for John Hopkins University to produce the Y2Connect website, we produced counterpart native iPhone and Android apps which were released on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store earlier this month.
Pro-bono website for DC area for Latin Grammy nominated children's music artist 123 Andres. Our work included updating the artist's brand to reflect his latest album and improving the site's functional capacity. The WordPress responsive website uses WooCommerce for e-commerce needs, including sales of the artist's albums.