Web Development

I've been "making websites" since at least 1996, when I'd cobbled together a personal homepage that featured Monty Python quotes and auto-played a midi file of the Benny Hill theme. It was glorious.

Since then, I've honed my expertise and have made a nearly three-decade career doing what I love. And I've done it for clients big and small. Most of them I'd worked on as an employee of another agency, so I'm limited in what I can show here. However, I'll continue to post Firebox projects here whenever I can.

Recent Work

The Good Life Abroad

TGLA reached out to me to help convert their marketing site from WordPress to the Statamic CMS. Their booking engine runs on the Laravel PHP framework, and they wanted their main site to be on the same platform.

I did an extensive audit of their existing Wordpress implementation, documenting their existing content types, taxonomies, plugins, etc. I then rebuilt the site from the ground up with custom templates and components, leveraging Statamic's flexible flat-file system and the power of Laravel under the hood.

Content was then migrated from WordPress using a combination of Statamic's importer and custom scripts. The old site was a mix of Gutenberg-authored content and ACF fields, which made for quite a challenge. All media assets were migrated, organized and moved into a Google Cloud CDN (which Statamic treats as a "drive").

One of the most important things to me when building a CMS-based site that the client will update themselves, is that it be easy and intuitive to use. I'd argue it should even be delightful. With this migration, the client now has access to Statamic's simple, clean control panel. It's a breath of fresh air compared to the busy and bloated WordPress admin.

After launch, I continue to work on the site, adding features and enhancements, which I'll be excited to share soon.

Tech Stack