I’m very excited to help out with Chattanooga’s premier TEDx event: TEDxChattanooga.

TEDxChattanooga website

For this site, I chose a responsive Bootstrap 3 SASS WordPress theme, originally developed for TEDxToronto. I made a few tweaks and improvements to better fit our event, and worked with April Cox from UT Chattanooga to dial in the design and architecture. Developed on an Amazon EC2+Ubuntu+Webmin server running a Nginx+MySQL+PHP-FPM stack, the site should handle plenty of traffic, and can be scaled up to meet spikes in demand coinciding with the event.

Please check out TEDxChattanooga.com!

Love Open Source software, but hate the generic branding? No problem. It’s very simple to create a fully-branded login screen for WordPress and Webmin/Virtualmin, to match a client’s logo and color scheme.

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Lula Lake Land Trust needed a quick website update to replace a neglected site that had been dormant for years. I chose WordPress with a Bootstrap theme for quick and flexible development, and generated a color palette using the Lavish Bootstrap color scheme generator.

This is a great example of a site that can come together in mere days, look great, and function well on every device from desktop to tablet to smart phone.

Lula Lake Land Trust website

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Mark Making is a Chattanooga non-profit with a mission to enhance the town with public art and to engage the public in the creation and production of art, not merely it’s appreciation or exhibition.

Mark Making website

This project was yet another “rescue effort” to save a dying website that had been abandoned by a previous developer. Knowing how artists can be very particular about visual design and information architecture, I was a little apprehensive to take on this project… but I soon found some new PHP and JavaScript code to make WordPress behave as desired.

• Search Engine Optimization
• Fancybox JavaScript modal windows for YouTube, image slideshows, audio, video and PDF
• Google Web Fonts for a handcrafted look
• Advanced Custom Fields for intuitive addition of media player icons and project metadata

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Zero Sum Website

This is a project for Create Here, a Chattanooga think tank nonprofit that connects entrepreneurs and artists with creative communicators to promote sustainable, creative initiatives and showcases. Zero Sum is an exhibit that examines the role of games in contemporary culture and the impact they have on our social experience, psyche, morality and approach to critical thinking.

• Online forms for artistic submissions
• Database to collect and organize submissions, including file uploads
• Search Engine Optimization, sitemaps, Google Analytics to provide info about traffic and visitors

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Sequatchie Valley Institute website

I visited Sequatchie Valley Institute years ago with my children, and made a long-term goal to some day live and work with the folks I met there. We use the web extensively to communicate with our members, the public, and the media.

• SlideShowPro Director provides an engaging and easily-updated frontpage show, and a gallery of current and past events
• Event Calendar manages our online calendar
• Registration forms and contact forms for events and communication, routed to the proper folks
• MailMan takes care of our e-mail blasts
• Vanilla forum helps the board of directors sort out our business

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