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.
Jacqueline Gonzalez and I cofounded STEAMpunks Boston (STEM + the Arts thru Activism), a community arts group that brings creative professionals and local youth together.
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.
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.
Nearly everything in the Health Leads WordPress theme is configurable by site administrators for a non-technical editing experience.
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.
With the help of Beth Almeida of Proper Villains Agency, we patterned the redesign after the main Cure Alzheimer’s Fund website.
The new GSS website is built on WordPress, taking advantage of the Gutenberg block editor to equip the GSS web team with a block library that enables them to build pages with zero technical intervention.
Bonnie Brunner and I designed Trademark Your Company for New York-based IP lawyer John M. Trani, who wanted to sell his legal services with a series of single-page forms.
As Editor of Touchstone, I created the 2006 issue of Touchstone, the student literary magazine of Stetson University, alongside Assistant Editor and digital artist Laura Oxendine.
Take Care Home Health, a private duty home healthcare network headquartered in Sarasota, FL was one of my very first clients, way back in 2010.
In this design, each section of the site features full-bleed photography from her collaborations, and we focused on building a robust collaborations gallery that pulls in assets from Flickr.
Media management company Editshare launches website redesign on WordPress Gutenberg.
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