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Skill: Website Performance Optimization

State of WIC Microsite Launched

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 […]

Blog for ATTIC Relaunched Using Next.js

Several years ago we launched a simple WordPress-based blog for ATTIC, a tool to help people shop local from small businesses. (See also our ATTIC case study.) We've developed upwards of 100 WordPress-based websites for both simple and large, complex sites, so choosing it as our platform was an easy decision at the time. But […]

ATTIC City (beta) Released: Philadelphia and Boston

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, […]

Developing Google AMP Pages for ATTIC DC

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 […]

CounterCholesterol.org Launched

Just launched CounterCholesterol.org, a project of the National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke. We served as the project's lead user experience designer, information architect, and developers. The project as a whole was completed in coordination and collaboration with Rive Creative, also of Washington DC, on a quick turnaround basis. The mobile-friendly, responsive website features […]

Launched: Broader, Bolder Approach to Education

Launched the fully re-designed and re-developed BBA website built on a state of the art WordPress CMS using Twitter Bootstrap supported by Roots Sage. Worked with the client to transform their information architecture to reflect a new phase in the organization's life with new goals and new resource offerings. Developed a custom WordPress theme using […]

Host Provider Analysis for WordPress Websites

Performed an analysis of website hosting providers for an organization that needed to select a host for two new websites. The nonprofit advocacy group was having two different developers build two new WordPress websites. Each of those developers was recommending a different hosting solution. I was brought in to conduct an analysis of the recommendations […]

Optimizations for Fiscal FactCheck WordPress Website

The Fiscal FactCheck website, which we launched earlier this week, got off to a roaring start. The CRFB team behind the site's content, live blogged and tweeted information during last night's GOP presidential debate — fact checking in real time key claims made about tax cuts, social security and other federal fiscal matters that various […]

ATTIC DC Furniture Blog Set Up

Installed and configured WordPress blog for ATTIC DC, an online marketplace for used, vintage and antique furniture stores in the Washington DC area. The blog was set up along side ATTIC's main website which resides behind a CloudFlare-based CDN and security layer.

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