Abyssinian Kitchen
After closing at the beginning of the COVID shutdown this highly rated restaurant with a devoted following has reopened! Now it’s 4 blocks from my house.
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A Balanced Life
A friend of mine from the “before times” and a Wild Turkeys Bowling League co-member, Robin Coleman, built this site for Dr. Julie Kahn back in the mid 2000s with WordPress. Dr. Kahn wanted an updated site with a mobile friendly, modern look and feel to head into the new year (2022). Robin is no longer doing freelance web design so she referred my services – thanks, Robin!
Cox Marketing
Laura hired me to help her with the revamp of the Lead I.T. Consulting site. When that was finished, she just about immediately wanted to have me replace her old Squarespace site with a mobile-friendly …
Four Year Anniversary
This post marks the four year anniversary of working for myself, and as a contractor, doing freelance web design full time. I’m thankful every day that I went back to school at PCC – it literally …
The Southeast Examiner
Recently, most of my projects have been replicating a concept: take an existing WordPress site (along with all of its content) and update the theme with a modern, mobile friendly one. Essentially, a facelift.
Fetch Pet Hotel
When the marketing director at Kaleafa Cannabis moved to Texas and opened a doggie daycare and boarding facility, he hired me to build the site for his new venture. Clean and tight, Fetch Pet Hotel is a tidy little site.
Yukon Tavern
The historic Yukon Tavern changed hands in the beginning of 2021 – a couple of good friends took it over. We put together a quick WordPress site in an afternoon. There’s more to come…
Saucy Beast
This was a managed hosting site with an external shop on PayPal – not a great user experience and hard to manage. We consolidated the ordering into one site and upgraded the WP theme all at once. B00M!
Mississippi Records
We made this online shop to help support the store when they went into lockdown along with the rest of Oregon in early 2020. The online shop isn’t selling records, but there’s still a ton of branded T-shirts, limited edition posters, postcards, beer coozies, tote bags, and more. Sun Ra snow globes, maybe? Local pickup for stereo equipment is now available again!
Saucy Jewelry
The styling on Elisa’s site allows the jewelry to shine – literally. The minimal color scheme comes from the natural backdrops she uses to photograph her work. The WooCommerce shop has 100s of handmade items: rings, pendants, earrings, and bracelets.
The Goodfoot
Serving Portland since 2001, The Goodfoot showcases live music & DJs, great scratch bar food, a full bar with infused cocktails, pool & pinball, plus daily happy hour. The site displays months of music listings and the menu in a mobile friendly format that’s easy to read – not just a PDF stuffed into a page.
Vivid Element
Find eco-friendly slow fashion handmade in NE Portland, OR. Each garment is crafted with care from sustainable materials. The site has a wholesale portal, all the current VE seasonal lines, a blog, and media articles.
Wedgehead
Wedgehead is the premier pinball arcade in Portland, OR. It’s home to pinball machines from all eras and serves bad-ass bar food, stiff drinks, and cold beer. In the age of COVID, they’ve moved to an all-reservation system.
Beulahland
Established in 1997, Beulahland is a unique, family-owned, old-school Portland restaurant and lounge. Their self-hosted WordPress site includes food & drink menus and a schedule for football (soccer) on the big screen.