I recently began assisting Shelton Interactive building sites for them and helping them with some debugging of their current client list. My first project for them was this site build for travisandco.com.
Site featured mailchimp integration, featured slideshow, quote rotater, video lighbox, and blogs.
The design was provided by Shelton Interactive, I built the theme using thematic and the site is built on wordpress.
Built a responsive site for the Texas Landscape Project, a multi-media effort to map and track environmental events and conservation efforts in the state.
Hornaday Design provided the initial full screen design, I designed and built all the smaller layouts for mobile devices, and built the site using thematic 320.
Launched Latipac.com this week for Latipac Commercial, LLC, a property management company with locations in Houston and Austin.
Built on wordpress 3, I used an elegantthemes premium theme built for reality sites as a framework, and customized it to fit the client’s needs. Also used a handy google maps plug-in for wordpress called MapPress to handle the maps on the “Properties” page.
Built this custom wordpress child theme for Firelight Kitchens. Firelight Kitchens in an outdoor/indoor kitchen consultant based here in Austin.
FLK provided the design, which was created by Tenderling.
Several custom elements were needed that I built into the theme, the home page needed images to fade in and out, as well as a section that changed randomly on refresh. There is also a custom scroll bar on a second level page. All custom visual elements were built in using jQuery.
Eagle Mineral Company needed a site built, and built quickly, I put this together overnight and they were happy with it. Sometimes short and simple is all you need.
My colleague Will Hornaday asked me to build his portfolio site that he designed. I built the site on wordpress, and used the viewport theme to achieve the sliding panels of the portfolio pages, then created a custom template for the blog pages. I used jquery to create the fade-in animation as the home page loads, and used this post to figure out how to get the random image to load.
I designed and built this wordpress site for Eagle Service Group. I worked with the client through two rounds of design revisions, then built the theme using thematic.
I used MMForm Community to handle the various forms on the site, it is a good form plugin, and it’s free, another option if you ever need to collect any data on your site.
I’m writing this as a simple reminder to all people who operate wordpress sites. If you want to run your own copy of wordpress on your own server, do not use godaddy as your server provider.
Now that I’ve had two clients have come back to me regarding performance issues, I must write this in hope to remind others as well as myself to choose a reliable hosting option, and also to offer this solution if you find yourself stuck with godaddy.
Godaddy has introduced a new hosting solution titled 4GH. And if you have your hosting from before sometime this year, chances are you aren’t using it. Now godaddy plans on moving it’s customers to this new platform, but you can do it yourself if they haven’t found time for you.
This should hopefully help your performance issues, and if it doesn’t, then it’s time to move to a new host.
