Projects

Boise Art Museum

The Boise Art Museum, in addition to its beautiful indoor museum space, also runs an annual artists' fair called Art in the Park. The museum asked me to create an in-house application for managing the application process. This launched in January of 2024. I'm also working on a new membership system for the museum, with many customizations, based on WordPress, WooCommerce, and the WooCommerce Membership plugin.

Pioneer Lender Trustee Services: Red Door

Pioneer Lender Trustee Services, a subsidiary of Pioneer Title Company, based in Boise, Idaho, needed an extensive, secure application for banking customers to transfer mortgage-related documents. I created an extensive application that includes a drag-and-drop upload interface, with many bells and whistles. The upload process parses an Excel file, checks to see if corresponding PDFs are in place, and adds them into a workflow involving double-checking, flagging, time-stamp tracking, reporting, and more. In addition, user authentication uses Auth0, and files are stored on Amazon's S3 system.

Treefort Music Fest

Treefort approached me to take the web development reins of their three five web properties, and right away we migrated all sites from disparate hosting registrars to Liquid Web. I created a new site for new Boise music venue, Treefort Music Hall, and made improvements to The Duck Club, a tour-management branch. The main Treefort Music Fest website then needed new, kooky, animated elements on a new home and landing pages, new ticketing logic, and a refactoring of how concert/artist/event data is consumed from a remote API. Over the last year, we've added sites for the Shrine Social Club, and Hackfort. This is a really fun crew to work with.

HorsePro.tv

HorsePro is the "Netflix" of western horse training. Their WordPress site needed a complete facelift, more video-exploration features, and a new membership system. In addition, they needed more in-depth reporting on their members and subscription activity. I migrated the site to Liquid Web, built a new WordPress theme that includes many shortcodes for embedding video-image sliders, and we built an improved video experience, so that members can save favorites, and have video progress saved for later viewing. To speed things up, we also decided to host some video content on Bunny.net's very fast CDN.

Boise Philharmonic

A collaboration with designer Kristy Weyhrich, of W Design. Among many custom goodies, the Boise Phil needed a complex calendar system, a way to organize many musicians, and a multi-pane slider to highlight sponsors. Recently, I helped them integrate their ticketing and membership system with the Vimeo API, since their recent season is a "virtual" one. 

Pioneer Title Company

Pioneer Title needed an online calculator for various mortgage assessments that would use complex county-level data (pictured). More recently, we've created an in-house application for managing huge amounts of foreclosure data, and for outputting legal documents; it's saved them hundreds of man-hours.

Bright Works

Clint, at Bright Works, does amazing custom lighting installations and repair. He'd been getting by with a "Website Builder" site on GoDaddy. We built a fresh WordPress site, using a customized ("child") theme, and now he can manage his extensive portfolio easily.

Advocates for Children of New Jersey

I've worked with ACNJ for over 10 years, on two iterations of their site. Most recently, I built them custom WordPress theme based on an in-house design, and created a document library for managing many a trove of PDFs and press releases. Working with clients long-term, I'm always there to assist with technical and emerging challenges involving design, security, analytics, and marketing.

Timeglider

In 2003, I launched Timeglider, a web-based timeline application. I was lucky to rope in Justin Kuntz from Creative Soapbox to design the interface. Over the next eleven years, over 500,000 students, educators, and professionals used it. Clients also included Boeing, Geico, and NBC. In 2019, Timeglider was acquired by Preceden.

Stave Puzzles

I've been working with Stave Puzzles since forever, and we've gone through three e-commerce systems. Most recently, we're building upon a WordPress theme and a new WooCommerce store to manage Stave's 5000+ puzzle images for custom wooden jigsaw puzzles.

Riverside Hotel

I implemented a great design by Kristy Weyhrich on this one, a completely original WP theme. The Riverside needed a complex calendar plugin, and a number of other interesting WordPress theme features, too. 

Patricia Pearson

You'd be amazed at how few simple WordPress themes there are. Like really simple. For Canadian writer Patricia Pearson, I stripped down a default WordPress theme, and we created a simple way for her to manage her catalog of books. Here most recent book is about a murder.

Beth Geagan

Beth Geagan is a voice-over professional who needed a simple site to highlight her work. Kristy Weyhrich designed it, and I implemented the design and created custom audio players.

GrainBuys

Grainbuys is a grain trading platform that is almost like an eBay for grain growers (sellers) to negotiate with ranchers buying feed stock. This was a complex app built from the ground up using Code Igniter, with a complex administrative back-end. It has a messaging platform, contract negotiation system, and zip-code-calculated shipping data.

South Beck & Baird

South Beck & Baird is one of Boise's top landscape architects. I was hired by W Design to implement this this elegant layout, highlighting their work — a triumph of minimalism.

Gunilla Norris

Gunilla Norris has written at least a dozen books on meditation, prayer, and mindfulness. Her site demanded real simplicity to match her philosophy, but the site has complexity under the surface. We built an audio app for a project of hers, for listening to chants, and book pages include audio excerpts as well.