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Grey Sky Films

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.

I observed the needs of the company and based on those observations I designed and coded most of this website. The studio owner already had ideas for most of the homepage, so for that page it was just a matter of coding his vision. The interior pages were me though, the types of [ages were mapped out and I just created those pages in ways that I thought were appropriate for the client type and in a way that would match the aesthetic of the homepage.

This "Client" was my first internship. I developed the SPREO webpage based on the team designs that the company had already created, and then worked with the designer to add new sections and features to that page.