I Am A Front-end Web Developer

Republic Ranches helps buyers and sellers of land assets primarily in the state of Texas but has properties all around the United States. This build was very fun and interesting from a development perspective. Our goal was to build an easy to use, easy to search, and intuitive discovery process for users of the new site with a focus on digital marketing and SEO. To this end we built a site that hits all the marks for the use of schema data to help with search results and page structure to make it easier for search engines to index different pages depending on what users were searching for.

We modified the WordPress URL structure so that our breadcrumbs follow the location structure of properties being listed on the site. For instance when you land on a property in Bexar County, Texas the user can easily navigate back up the site tree to see all properties in Bexar County and then up even further to the state of Texas, and finally back to the global property search.

On the property landing pages we heavily used the real estate schema to markup the data so that Google could pull out relevant data such as property name, location, assets, and attributes. We also utilized CSS grid to layout the property page so that users could focus on the property description while also having easy access to the property assets such as galleries, brochures, maps, and associates. On mobile the sidebar, with jump links, appears right after the property description making it easy to scroll down to exactly what the user wants to see. For the main gallery at the top of the property page we make it easy for users to either scroll through the main listing or open a modal window with all the images in one view for quick glances.

By far the most complex part of this build was the property search page with an interactive map. We utilized the Google Maps API in conjunction with the property location data to make it very fun to filter, search, and zoom around a map with all unsold properties. As users zoom in on the page the listing to the right will automatically filter down to only the properties within view of the user. This makes sure all properties get some highlight as users move around the map. If a user clicks away and then comes back to the map the state of the page will be retained allowing the user to pick up where they left off. Then of course users might just want to scroll down a vertical list so they have a grid option to hide the map and just see the full list of properties but also still filter them down if they want to see one area.

Worked on while at
Gray Digital Group

Team
Jim Aderhold (Project Manager)
Aurora Cantu (Account Executive)
Blake Cerecero (Designer/Developer)

Organizing legal volunteers to help our local community, San Antonio Legal Services Association (SALSA) needed an easy to use platform that would allow them to create custom landing pages to share training resources with legal volunteers. To this end we chose WordPress as the go to content management system with much flexibility and easy to use blocks that would allow SALSA to quickly build out landing pages.

Alongside sharing volunteer resources we integrated two APIs. Volunteer Hub is a service where legal volunteers could search for new pro bono opportunities and we are using PHP to authenticate the API to generate a list of the three upcoming clinics and events. Then we are using WP All Import to pull in data from the Legal Server API where available cases are being integrated into a custom post type with custom filtering. This allows legal volunteers to easily sign up for or show their interest in helping those in need

Worked on while at
Gray Digital Group

Team
Jim Aderhold (Project Manager)
Aurora Cantu (Account Executive)
Blake Cerecero (Designer/Developer)

Empowering Physicians to live out their mission, Covenant Physician Partners is built on the WordPress content management system using our advanced development theme. Custom programming using ES6, Babel, and Webpack allows us to program to the latest standard then transpile our code for multiple browsers for interactive SVG maps for searching and filtering physician practice locations. Utilizing Advanced Custom Fields we created custom Gutenberg Blocks that can be used to filter out data from the custom post types for practice location and physician data.

Worked on while at
Gray Digital Group

Team
Jim Aderhold (Account Executive)
Richard Baugh (Production Director)
Blake Cerecero (Developer)
Tim Layton (Programmer)

This WordPress website hosts Podcasts being pulled in from Podbean. Initially starting out with a single podcast, it has expanded to more than 5 shows. Some of the primary features of this site is the use of custom post types to organize shows with detail pages for the shows connected to listing pages for the podcasts. Very little work has to be done to create a new show and start loading it up with episodes then relate hosts, social streams, and ads.

Worked on while at
Gray Digital Group

Team
Richard Baugh (Production Director)
Jim Aderhold (Project Manager)
Josephine Medel (Designer)
Blake Cerecero (Developer)

It's not everyday that I get to design a site, however, this re-skin of the Be Something Amazing Drupal 7 site was an opportunity to flex those muscles. The main feature of this site is the career finder page where I used the Drupal API to call a custom content types data on to the page for filtering by the Mixitup JavaScript plugin. On the home page our editor spliced together a looping video to bring the site to life.

Worked on while at
Gray Digital Group

Team
Richard Baugh (Production Director)
Blake Cerecero (Designer/Developer)

The Southwest National Primate Research Center is a WordPress website and sister website to the Texas BioMedical Research Institute. With a design much more fitting of my personal tastes, I used SVG icons and logos to maintain a sharp feel regardless of the resolution of the users display. The design is largely based off of Texas BioMed, however there are several scientist pages where we did not want to duplicate data between the two sites. For this reason we used the WordPress API to call in data from the main Texas BioMed site into SNPRC so that our client would only need to enter the data into one location.

Worked on while at
Gray Digital Group

Team
Richard Baugh (Production Director)
Nicole Sellers (Project Manager)
Jessica Donovan (Account Executive)
Blake Cerecero (Developer)