My Work

I do a lot of web design and development work, and pictures alone just don't explain what I do. Here's a list of posts that attempt to explain that better. Feel free to email me at hello@jasonthings.com if you have more questions.

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BaltimoreTech.net

December 28th, 2010 ∞ Permalink

Mike Brenner and Myke Nahorniak built this new directory for Baltimore tech folks. Mike asked me to help build a WordPress plugin to connect people to meetups and startups and vice versa.

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CMA Stories

December 27th, 2010 ∞ Permalink

This network of church missionary blogs is built using WordPress 3.0′s Multisite functionality, as well as a custom-built YouTube manager plugin that allows users to upload and manage their videos from within the WordPress admin. It’s also a partially responsive design.

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Habitat for Humanity

Habitat For Humanity

December 27th, 2010 ∞ Permalink

I originally designed this site for Habitat for Humanity to be built in a custom PHP content management system. After building the custom CMS and turning it over, WordPress 3.0 launched. It was the perfect long-term solution for them so I am moving their site into WordPress 3 now.

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95 Scenes of Gilman Hall

December 26th, 2010 ∞ Permalink

Gilman Hall, an iconic building on the JHU Homewood campus, reopened this fall. Our team came up with a concept for telling the story of Gilman Hall in 95 scenes. I built a responsive, flexible grid of images and videos to showcase the 95 scenes in a unique, user-friendly way.

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JSONThings

You see what I did there? These JSON feeds pull in my content from other sites, accounts, etc.

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    Required Reading

    • Wordpress Headline Split Tester
      Really interesting A/B headline testing WP plugin that came out of the Baltimore Hackathon, but I'm interested in how it deals with the URL slug.
    • Finding Your Way with Static Maps
      Drew McClellan kicks off this year's 24ways advent calendar with advice for including maps in your sites, the right way.
    • CSS Style Guide from dropshado.ws
      Great beginnings to a style guide for CSS. Something I'd like to add to.
    • The Unsocial Network
      Amazing behind the scenes write-up of the Conan-Leno wars by Bill Carter in Vanity Fair. Excerpt is from Carter's forthcoming book, "The War for Late Night".
    • Responsive Web Design
      Ethan Marcotte shows how to leverage fluid grids and @media queries to begin building responsive layouts.
    • Avoiding the FOUC
      Paul Irish explains how to get rid of the nasty "flash of unstyled content" using CSS, JavaScript, and graceful degradation.
    • WordPress Custom Post Types
      New in WordPress 3.0, bringing WordPress that much closer to a full-fledged CMS solution.

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