Trawire.com offers portable 4G MiFi and iPad rentals for visitors traveling to Iceland. Trawire’s CIO approached me for assistance after his systems administrator bailed and left him with a poorly maintained, self-hosted MacMini server running unoptimized WordPress installs.

Trawire website

I migrated the site to Amazon Web Services, where it now can handle traffic spikes and can be scaled and built out more easily, should the concept grow to additional markets. Working with my WordPress coding contacts in India, Trawire developed plugins to add features, and keep the software up-to-date. My contributions: caching and content distribution for static assets & queries, Virtualmin and phpMyAdmin for ease of management and development.

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Joe Naturals Farm Store Cafe is a “farm to table” cafe and natural foods store located in historic Leiper’s Fork, near Franklin, TN. The owners contacted me through a fellow farmer with whom I have worked on several web projects.

Joe Natural's website

The website project was languishing, after being abandoned by a designer who lacked knowledge of WordPress template coding. The site needed better integration with WordPress, including text-based navigation and replacement of scanned layout comps, which were being used for page display & navigation.

I reworked the stylesheet to replace image-based text with CSS styled text, integrated WordPress navigation, and then added a few WordPress plugins.

• Constant Contact API for automated newsletter signup
• Simple Facebook Connect for Facebook Fan Page interconnectedness
• Google Analyticator and Google XML Sitemaps for search engine optimization and traffic reporting
• WordPress SEO for simple and effective search engine optimization
• W3 Total Cache to speed up site access on a low-end GoDaddy hosting account

I also worked with the farmers’ social media person to add social media links and integrate Facebook “Likes” and cross publishing from the WordPress blog to the Facebook Fan Page.

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Light Sport & Ultralight Flying Magazine needed an easy-to-manage e-commerce solution, coupled with Content Management and slideshows.

I used Joomla plus VirtueMart, and SlideShowPro to give them a sophisticated system that is simple to use.

Light Sport & Ultralight Flying Magazine website

The magazine has been in circulation since 1975, so the publishers know how to survive and thrive. Online sales & subscriptions give the print magazine a fighting chance against online outlets in a tight niche market.

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Office Coordinators Inc. website

I worked with Office Coordinators Inc’s talented in-house designers to update the OCI website. OCI chose an e-commerce theme, and we completely reworked the CSS and layout to match their colors and logo treatment. After a previous failed attempt with another developer, they were surprised at how quickly the site came together, and how easy it is to manage with WordPress!

• “Inquiry mode” e-commerce: customers can select items, add to shopping cart, then email for more information or price quote
• Search Engine Optimization: Google Analytics and Sitemaps
• WordPress Content Management
• Social Networking with Facebook “score card”

Thank you for your persistence. You’re our favorite website/technically savvy guy ever.
— Emily Vaughn, OCI

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Suck Creek Cycle website

I’ve been hosting and helping with Suck Creek Cycle’s website since they opened in 1998. The site was long overdue for an upgrade, so I took an existing template design and tweaked it a bit to look like the bike shop, then integrated social media and syndicated content from their vendors.

• Facebook local business page integration — publish from WordPress directly to Facebook
• Facebook Friends and Wall displayed on the website
• RSS Syndication for news from cycling sites and bike vendors

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Craig Design Group Website

This is a simple website for a Chattanooga based landscape architect that focuses on beautiful portfolio slideshows. We’ve also added Twitter and Facebook integration to keep fans and customers updated on the latest projects.

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