Over the past few years, I have had the pleasure of volunteering at, and developing the website for, the Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle’s oldest continuously operating independent theater.

The design, based on a submission by local web designer Sam Dawson, was brought to life through a custom-built WordPress site. It features dynamic showtimes and a seamless ticketing system, allowing the programming team to easily manage their events. I also integrated mobile-responsive layouts to ensure a smooth browsing experience for visitors across all devices.

You can explore the live site at grandillusioncinema.org or click on the images to view full-size screenshots.

I have been working with author and speaker Dean Sluyter for over two decades.

My first site for Dean dates back to 1996, when his first book, Why The Chicken Crossed The Road, was published.

Originally written in ColdFusion using a custom CMS, Dean’s site has gone through several iterations, including a Drupal 7 version. Its current version was developed from scratch in WordPress, with custom Beaver Builder modules for events and media teasers.

Please visit the site at deansluyter.com, or click on the images at right to view enlarged screen shots.

I’ve been working with my author, speaker, and Episcopal priest David Mesenbring on his personal web site since 2012. Like Dean Sluyter’s site, this one got its start as a Drupal 7 site, but in the interest of portability and ease of migration, I decided to port it to WordPress in late 2019.

This is one of the few public-facing sites on which I worked at CivicActions: A Drupal 7 upgrade & redesign for the U.S. House of Representatives. We were provided with a new design, and I was lead themer, creating a fully responsive site via a fully custom theme.

I designed this site to promote a project on which I have been working since 2003. “Junk Drawer Photos” is a collection of images that I’ve been making of my friends’ and acquaintances’, well, junk drawers.

This site is a pure PHP/HTML/CSS site, coded without the use of a content management system, and makes extensive use of jQuery, in particular the “coda-slider” plugin.

Please click on the images at right to view enlarged screen shots.

At CivicActions, I was either lead or sole front end developer/themer on a number of federal and local government web sites. Unfortunately, many of these, such as GlobalNET, are password protected or intranets. I worked on GlobalNET for nearly two years, from initial UX design, through site building and theming phases. It is a fully responsive Drupal 7 site (based on he Zen base theme, and using Zen grids) with which I am proud to have been involved.

CivicActions partnered with Acquia to deliver the first new countdown clocks in decades for the New York City Subway. I was instrumental in providing pixel-perfect theming for signs of different dimensions, taking great pains to ensure historical accuracy and legibility. I used a combination of viewport units and flexbox in my Sass, and learned quite a bit of ReactJS in the process.

Oikocredit Northwest is a local support organization for Oikocredit UA, an international development cooperative that empowers poor and marginalized people around the world with credit.

Fezziwig has been working with Oikocredit Northwest to establish a web presence, complete with graphic design, Drupal web development, and development of a CiviCRM-based database of members and contacts.

Please click on the images at right to view enlarged screen shots.

The Society for Commercial Archeology is an international membership organization, dedicated to the interpretation and preservation of the 20th century commercial roadside landscape.

My work for the SCA consisted of Drupal-based web design and development, including a CiviCRM-based membership management component and provisions for online registrations and renewals.

Please click on the images at right to view enlarged screen shots.

I was asked to design and build a WordPress-based landing page to support John Oates’ recent project, “Good Road To Follow”, a year-long series of twelve new songs, released on his web site on a monthly basis.

Please or click on the images at right to view enlarged screen shots of the site I built for John.

Kurt Baker is a pop artist based in Portland, Maine.

We were asked to create a Genesis Framework child theme to support Kurt’s “Rockin’ For A Living” album.  We created the child theme using StudioPress’s baseline “Child” theme.

Please click on the images at right to view enlarged screen shots of the site we built for Kurt.

Movings is an all-digital label based out of Chicago that launched in early 2011.

Movings asked me to create a logo as well as a Genesis Framework child theme based on the StudioPress Amped parent theme.

Please click on the images at right to view enlarged screen shots of the work we did for Movings.

Mike Evin is a Montreal-based pop artist.

I was asked to create a Genesis Framework child theme using the Amped child theme’s layout; I customized it to complement Mike’s new CD release.

Please click on the images at right to view enlarged screen shots.

Music Geek Services is an artist services firm based out of Nashville and Chicago, dedicated to the music industry.

Fezziwig was asked to update the logo and create a WordPress theme for the new MGS web site.

Fezziwig and Music Geek Services chose to achieve the resulting web site by highly customizing a Genesis Framework child theme.

Please click on the images at right to view enlarged screen shots.