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 Leap website relied on a robust, shortcode-driven templating system that allowed the agency team to construct portfolio pages with no technical expertise.
To give Noname’s team maximum flexibility, we built a library of blocks as tools for creating visually attractive landing pages.
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.
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.
O’Reilly Media’s “Missing Manual” series editor Nan Barber approached me to edit the Third and Fourth editions of CSS3: The Missing Manual.
A Bad Penny Review, a quarterly literary journal that appears in print and online, published visual artist Laura Oxendine and me in the online journal’s printed 2013 anthology for our I WANT YOU NEED collaboration.
Visual designer Nicole Martinez and I teamed up to create a subscriptions platform in WooCommerce for an online strength-conditioning community.
The look and feel was designed by Laura Parrish, and I built the website on WordPress to provide a means for Furbush to showcase corporate history.
The redesign involved a migration of a website with over 100,000 posts—twenty years of content!—while making sure the transition to the new site was seamless for its paid subscribers.
As Editor of Touchstone, the student literary magazine of Stetson University, I created the 2007 edition alongside assistant editor John Tinnell.
“Social behavioral marketing” brand TrueLens needed a blog to tout the benefits of its CRM platform and the power of “socialgraphics.”
When it comes to specialized work, hire battle-tested experts to get the job done right. I’ll build a platform that takes care of your brand, so you can get back to building your business. Don’t hesitate to get in touch. A consultation is free, and we can determine over a quick phone call if I’m a good fit for your project.
