We took over this site from it’s previous “developers”. That’s in quotes because they were just plain scammers, and we have no problem calling them out.

LogoCrescent charged the client $300 to transfer the site away from their service. In reality this meant $300 to ransom the client’s (already paid for) website back to them. They had previously suspended it due to “billing concerns”, which just meant they decided to arbitrarily charge more money and the client refused to pay. They charged the client ridiculous fees for non-existent services, but were more than happy to ignore emails and phone calls when asked to actually do something.

A general rule of thumb: if you’re looking at a web developer candidate and their grammar/spelling mirrors that of a 5-year-old, we would suggest looking elsewhere.

We removed about 40 plugins that were completely unused (so they were just slowing down performance), ran a full security audit, and replaced about 5 nulled/cracked plugins that the previous developers had installed. The site performs far better now and we’re happy to finally have it back up.

I personally have a passion for gliding, so I redesigned this site for fun. The business owner ultimately didn’t want to use it, but it was still an enjoyable side project for me.

This was the first time we trialed AI for copywriting, and it worked out pretty well. The primary reason for going that route was getting a fast turnaround time for the site build, and we ultimately finished it in under a week.

This also gave us the chance to flex our new website framework, and we’re super happy with how it turned out! It just looks better overall than our previous templates did. It also received “A” ratings for PageSpeed out of the box, which was a nice change for us. Previously we had to do about an hour of optimization to get our sites to rank that high.

This was a fun project to tackle, as the client already had a premade visual design that they wanted to use. Typically we structure a website based on our experience and let the client make tweaks, but for this we had to base it off photos and mockups. At the time, we were still learning our new website framework, so to turn around quickly for the client we opted to use our previous process. In hindsight, this probably added more development time.

Ultimately, it’s just a basic information site with some contact forms, but it was still a fun challenge for us.

We took over hosting and maintenance of IOF in August of 2019 as the client was experiencing an unusual amount of brute-force attempts and they were concerned about it. Their previous host (GoDaddy) was attempting to upsell them for basic support and security and the client didn’t want to pursue that route.

Upon taking over hosting of the site we ran a full security audit. It didn’t identify any compromised code, but the website software was fairly out of date and bloated. After trimming a lot of unnecessary fat, we cut the site loading times in half. The client makes regular changes and wanted to be able to do them on their own, so we streamlined the entire product line and layout to make their workflow easier.

COVID and the ensuing supply shortages drastically changed how the company operated, so we again had to restructure their ecommerce system to accommodate.

Ultimately, our platform still blocks about 100,000 breach attempts a year for this site. It’s fairly busy and that ultimately means more bot/malicious traffic.

This site was previously developed by another agency, and they opted to host it on NetworkSolutions. This ended up being a nightmare for the client, and they had nothing but problems with speed, downtime, even getting ahold of support.

We suggested a migration to our service mid-2020 and the client agreed. Upon taking over maintenance, we ran a full security audit and found a PHP backdoor buried in the theme. It’s unknown who placed the backdoor, but after removing it we verified the site was fully secure. We locked down a myriad of administrator users and fully updated WordPress and it’s plugins as it was almost a year out of date.

We kept the previous design as the client was happy with it, but it began to give us issues about a year in as it was no longer an updated theme. We gave the site a quick facelift mid-2021 and got a noticeable speed improvement out of it. I wasn’t 100% satisfied with the new design, but starting from scratch would’ve been a significant investment for the client and that wasn’t feasible at the time.

We took over hosting and maintenance for this site back in 2019 as the client wasn’t happy with their previous developer or host. The website design was fine so we left it as-is, but we tweaked a lot of functionality that wasn’t working the way the client wanted. We ran a full security audit of the site and found a handful of malicious files. Thankfully, the site wasn’t pulling any ecommerce functionality at the time, so after cleaning up the malware we weren’t super concerned.

We eventually added the ability for Inkworld’s customers to be able to pay a tattoo deposit online. We also implemented a promotional video they had onto the homepage. Aside from that, it was just code cleanup and optimizations to make the site run as fast as the previous design would allow.

This was our first major project back in mid-2019 and it was a good opportunity to learn some new techniques! The client wanted some additional features that made an interesting challenge for us. We figured out a stable setup and have deployed it for several other clients in similar businesses since then. If you’re looking for a similar solution, contact us!

Admission Tickets: This was a pretty normal ecommerce setup, so no major issues there. We implemented a system that allowed Big Red’s to scan barcodes at their front desk to mark tickets as used.

Booking System: Customers could interact with a digital calendar and choose dates/times for whatever event they were interested in. Bookings would automatically sync to a connected Google Calendar and send an email notification to Big Red’s.

Digital Signatures: This was the most essential feature as a service like DocuSign didn’t fit their requirements. Customers signed a document “template” at the front desk and received that signed copy via email.

Aside from that, it was a pretty normal project. The site is looking a little dated now, but still holds up functionality and is fast enough for their use case.

This client reached out to us wanting to create a “directory” of sorts that people across the USA could use to browse animal parks near them and find out more information. We allow business owners to submit their facilities and then list them by state and zip code, creating a seamless search experience.

The best part is that the website is lightning-fast. The client simply wanted to spread knowledge and information about their fellow animal park owners. No advertisements or scummy external links.

Definitely a fun project and I loved working on it!