In my spare time I enjoy dabbling in various aspects of web development. I’ve built a couple of sites professionally but mostly as a hobby. I spend most of my web dev time in WordPress although I have worked with Drupal in the past, when it comes to Content Management Systems.
I tend to stay away from traditional hosting platforms such as Godaddy or Host Gator and prefer to use a Virtual Private Server (VPS) like Digital Ocean. The advantage of lower cost and less restrictions far outweigh the cons of no hand-holding.
Here’s a list of some of the areas I have attained a reasonable degree of proficiency in.
- HTML/CSS
- LAMP Stack Setup (Linux/Apache/MySql/PHP)
- VPS Setup (Virtual Private Server)
- WordPress and Drupal CMS’s
- Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
- Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates
DarianAtwood.com
A website I built for my son and his music production business, using WordPress and the Kadence theme, which has become my ‘go to’ theme.
GunsAndTasers.com
This website was originally built for a friend who owned a gun related business. The business no longer exists but the site has been converted to a news scraping site in hopes of growing the domain name’s value for re-sale.
JoeyMelotti.com
I built this site for my friend, Joey Melotti, who is the piano player for Barry Manilow and a whole list of music superstars.
PentagogicalBrass.com
This site was built for my friend Karen Polak and her brass quintet called “Pentigogical Brass”. Karen is a long time veteran of the Las Vegas music scene, having played trumpet in the “Siegfried and Roy” show way back when it had had a live band.