A collection of websites that I have built or worked on in some way. Each section is a showcase of the website and the technologies used to build it.
Slinger Super Speedway
This project was a comprehensive overhaul of an existing website, breathing new life into over 700 pages of archived content from a legacy WordPress installation from 2008 and a poorly exported Drupal site archive with content dating back to 1998.
The goal was to create a modern, performant, and easily maintainable platform. I rebuilt the site using Ghost, a powerful and flexible CMS. The site is deployed and managed using Docker on Kulik Labs Development's cloud servers, ensuring scalability and excellent performance! A key feature is the dynamic news slider on the homepage, implemented using the Ghost Content API to automatically display featured news posts. In addition, all legacy back links have been preserved using a combination of custom rules on the DNS level with Cloudflare and custom regex routing with Ghost's built in tooling. This was critical as we maintained SEO credibility with search engines.
This is a great demonstration of utilizing modern APIs for dynamic content delivery and a capacity to handle large content migrations. I also understand the key importance of preserving the online presence of a 25+ year old website.
The Kiel Company
This website is built on Ghost, a popular open-source platform for creating blogs and other online publications. It also utilizes Cloudflare to manage DNS routing and custom email routing, ensuring fast and secure access to the site. Additionally, Docker is used to facilitate quick updates and deployments of new content.
As a result, the website boasts high performance, security, and flexibility, making it an ideal platform. With its robust feature set and scalable architecture, this website can handle a large volume of traffic while maintaining fast page loads and seamless user experiences.
MH Home Services, LLC
This website is built on Ghost, an open-source headless CMS focused on content creation and publishing. It leverages a combination of technologies to deliver its modern aesthetic and functionality. Extensive custom code has been implemented to achieve the unique visual design and interactive elements of the website. This likely includes styling for typography, layout, animations, and user interface interactions.
Ghost CMS Powers the content management system, allowing easy creation, editing, and publication of blog posts and static pages. Cloudflare is Used as a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to improve website loading speed and performance by caching static assets and distributing content across multiple servers globally.
mhhomeservicesllc.com demonstrates a well-developed technical implementation combining the strengths of Ghost CMS, Cloudflare, and custom code to create a visually appealing and functional website optimized for user experience and performance.
Pole Factory MKE
Pole Factory MKE is a dance studio located in Downtown Milwaukee. This site hosts a suite of features to allow customers to buy into classes on a set schedule by the studio owner. Much of the initial design work and framework were assembled by myself. This site is hosted by KLabsDev servers currently. Pole Factory MKE’s site also utilizes Twilio’s SMS API to send text alerts to its customers. In addition to SMS alerts, e-mails to update customers on their class schedule are also utilized with SMTP under Seninblue’s API proxied through Cloudflare. Then payments are accepted under the Stripe API. The website framework is based on WordPress.
Blueline Auto Sales and Service
Blue Line Auto Sales and Service is a local car wholesaler local to the Metro Milwaukee Area. Their website needs to require a listing service to allow their employee’s the ability to post and list their current inventory of vehicles for sale. This was handled with a MySQL database and the WordPress framework. This website is also proxied through Cloudflare to cache images and speed up loading time since each listing had 10+ images. This website is still hosted and managed by KLabsDev.
USI Drilling
USI Drilling is an underground boring company servicing Southeastern Wisconsin. They were looking for a website that would be a beautiful front for customers to clearly see what services were offered by their company. There was a simple contact form that used PHP mail() to send quote requests to employees. This was a WordPress website that utilized some responsive CSS. This website is no longer hosted by KLabsDev so a Wayback is used for the site link.