Yep, it’s really that simple. There’s a reason why the waterfall approach is a mainstay of web design: it works. After 15+ years of building WordPress websites, I have my process down to a science.
I’m Daniel Quinn—a technical lead, digital strategist, freelance WordPress developer, and former copywriter with a background in communications. For 15+ years, I’ve helped digital agencies, startups, and nonprofits all over the world build digital platforms that reinvent their business.
The website takes the full text of The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa and randomly generates poems that can be saved into WordPress by visitors.
Director and Chief Curator Rachel Nelson hired me to develop the redesign for the Institute of Arts & Sciences at University of California Santa Cruz, a university art and research center that houses art exhibitions and social justice initiatives.
I redesigned Redivider’s website, introducing WordPress as the back-end content management system for the editorial staff.
Spun off by grad students at Emerson College in Boston, Fringe Magazine (“The Noun That Verbs Your World”) was an alt-lit publication I designed and developed during my graduate years.
“Anthropological” ad agency Argus Communications approached me to code up their marketing blog, Think Insight.
Now cross-product blog owners on Join.me can work with the same account across multiple products, all within the same easy-to-use platform.
OSR+ is host to a complex character creator that allows users to create heroes for use in the roleplaying game, as well as home to the game’s core rules and a novel-length game master’s guide, which I wrote.
Using stylized illustrations in an interactive slideshow, we created a visual narrative for the company’s experiential marketing app, My Digital Aloha.
Using WordPress, I created a theme that allowed the agency’s small team to get hands-on with their portfolio content while preserving the unique layout of their website’s design.
Scott needed a place to showcase his publication history and storied career as a journalist and author. We tailored a Genesis theme to suit the character of his new book, which makes it easy for Scott to publish news and press using WordPress’s block-based editor.
I created video aficionada Maddie Poirier’s website for The American Recipe Project, an ongoing TV series that documents the home cooking traditions of families across the United States.
The 2011 re-launch for Japanese rock magazine ROKKYUU focused on gearing the magazine toward visual kei in a highly customized WordPress installation.
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