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.
Designer Kit Casey and I worked with Karen Pelaez and Stephanie Vyce from the Harvard University Press to design a celebration website for the Press’ 100-year anniversary.
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 Maiden is fully responsive and built on top of WordPress, its back end architected such that The Maiden staff can easily update menu items and specials.
O’Reilly Media’s “Missing Manual” series editor Nan Barber approached me to edit the Third and Fourth editions of CSS3: The Missing Manual.
While Devsec is a simple site from a technical perspective, we added visual complexity by introducing layers of graphical flourishes, motion graphics, and looping video to give it that science fiction feel.
Argus contracted me to develop Northeastern University’s new NU Crossing website, a promotional brochureware for sharing networking events within the university.
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.
Aaron Scott of Symbolic Design needed a development partner to help him build a one-pager from his design for Opaque, a startup that specializes in providing analytics and machine learning for cloud data.
My approach in the redesign was to put the emphasis on the program’s very visual experience, as well as make it easier for the program organizers to collect applications.
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.
Proper Villains provided a visual design that translated well when I put together the new, highly modular theme.
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