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Andrew Lappin Sound Engineer

This client was a sound engineer who needed a new website.  First I designed the site as a flat image so the client could see the design and give edits.  After a few rounds of edits from the client on my design, I customized a blank wordpress template to look like my design and built the website.  The last step of this project was to make a custom plugin so that users could listen to sound clips from his studio.  I made sure that the plugin not only functions the way it should but is easy to update for the client in the future.

Frisa is a company that makes high-end European wines and other alcoholic beverages.  They needed a simple WordPress website to advertise their products and sell directly to consumers.  I was on the team that designed and developed this website.

This project was given to 'The DSM Group', an agency that hired me to assist on the website. We made this site for a small film agency that specializes in commercials and other short films. Although I have never worked directly with Grey Sky, they bill themselves as "New York and New Jersey's Top Film Production Agency" so I am inclined to take their word for it.

This project was given to a agency by the name 'The DSM Group' who hired me to assist on the project and do other work on a freelance basis. This company sells stone-based building materials to contractors.

"Since 1904, contractors all across Northern New Jersey have come to count on Braen Stone. From building highways to driveways, bridges to tunnels, the Braen team makes sure every customer has what they need to get the job done right."

WP Monitor is a WordPress plugin I wrote that is used to monitor the vital signs of a site and it give the user important information that is needed to properly administrate the site, all in a way that is easy to read with gauges and indicators.

It offers a lot of useful information that may not be site-specific, but that a developer would want to know at a glance. The PHP version, the database version as well as the number of updates and the number of inactive plugins are among the stats shown by WP Monitor.

Since publishing this post I have retired WP Monitor from the WordPress plugin repo. I do want to mention that the "health monitor" feature that was added to WordPress Core after I made this plugin is the same concept as this plugin was but more detailed. I'm not saying anyone copied me but the idea was so good apparently they wanted something like it built-in to WordPress.

This website was built before me by another developer. I fixed and managed the Woocommerce store and made sure the many orders that the site receives come in and are shipped out successfully. This was a particularly interesting client because of how extensive her woocommerce webstore was, with many addons to accept bitcoin and other interesting things.

The requests I would get to work on this website were some of the most interesting I have gotten in my freelance career. Aside from having great products, this business had a very nice owner with very nice workers.

In this project I both designed and developed a site for Arthur C Rothman Neurology.  As you can probably tell from the name, this was a doctor's office (neurologist) and as you can also tell from the name, we are in fact related. With many clients, we skip over the design process because they already have a site for me to maintain. While I am willing to maintain alone, I also like to design the site whenever I can.

Twin Homes was another client of DSM that needed a website built.  It was fun to work on this site and I think it turned out well, but I’ll let you be the judge.

A simple WordPress plugin to add chatrooms to your WordPress website. The administrator can change settings of the channel/chatroom and delete messages. The chatbox uses the WordPress classic editor (WYSIWYG editor) to type in descriptive and rich messages. The WYSIWYG editor allows users can to include images, embeds and a myriad of formatted strings in their messages.

I created a microsite to market Tobias Ralph's drum lesson DVDs. The site primarily serves as an informative hub for visitors who have been directed from other sources to purchase the DVD and learn more about its content. The entire site consists of a single webpage.