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FOLAS Gets a New Website

Happy to announce that one of my local animal shelters has a new website! FOLAS has a complete site redesign live as of today. I created a new custom WordPress website for them after their old site was hacked. Read more in my portfolio!

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I Like Purple (New Theme for katemwalsh.com)

Made a new theme for this site. Nothing super fancy. Basically just a Saturday project. I like purple and I like storms. I figured since this thing has been here almost a year, it was maybe a pretty good time to create an actual custom theme rather than relying on twentythirteen and slightly modified children. Built on Underscores with Waypoints, Sass, Grunt, Bourbon, and Neat. Thanks to jpaxonreyes@Flickr for the great header photo! Feedback welcome and appreciated!

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Web Design and Development Workflow

This is a post describing my workflow for creating a website from scratch. It’s not necessarily right, just descriptive of what I do. If you see any flaws or potential areas of improvement, please let me know. This is primarily relevant to personal projects, where I do exactly what I want regardless of what anyone else wants out of me. This is not likely to succeed in environments where you’re working on a team! Added — this isn’t really step-by-step. Sometimes I’ll go back to Photoshop after doing the colors in code to design some specific things. I definitely doodle […]

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