Website Design and Development
The Christopher Wilocki Photography website build is a custom WordPress site using the Genesis Framework as a base. It gave Christopher a responsive design to easily update his photos. For this website I built a custom section for uploading and categorizing photos. All that needs to be done is upload a photo and tell it [...]
Display your public Vimeo videos, albums or channels on a WordPress website. Use the shortcode generator to place your videos on pages, posts or custom post types. Use the admin panel to place your videos in the dashboard (for example, make a learning center for your clients). Use the widget to put a video list [...]
First Presbyterian Church Nashville is a custom design by Khanh Lam, photography by Craig Downey, copy by Sam Greenlee and Wendy Mohler, logo by Christina Smith (check out the options she created, logo set 1, logo set 2) and lots of testing and misc work by other members of the Poka Yoke Design crew. I [...]
Triennium is an event that happens every three years on the Purdue University campus. Image thousands of high school age people taking over a college campus for a week in the summer. Yeah, it’s a blast. As a teenager I went to two of these events and I chaperoned another two as an adult. So, [...]
Originally a ministry project of Poka Yoke Design, Worship Times has since broken off into its own company. The concept is simple, create beautiful, easy use, robust, and open-source websites. There are lots of companies that build proprietary content management systems for ministries, but then the church is locked down into a platform developed by [...]
Khanh Lam and I started Poka Yoke Design in 2008 as a custom web and print design company. Like any small business there have been lots of learning opportunities, but the ride has been amazing. I’m proud to call this company “home.” The website is a custom design by Khanh Lam and an active blog [...]
This is one of my favorite church home pages to-date. It includes a clean design with great photography from Craig Downey, a welcome message from the pastor, and all the relevant content a visitor needs. Clean and simple. This is a Woo Theme (affiliate link) on WordPress with minimal design changes, but lots of development [...]
Highschoogle is a website geared towards high school and early college age. Highschoogle gathers relevant content from around the internet for their readers several times a day. This WordPress website is a custom build based off of a design by Barry Jabloner. It relies on putting the content at the front and lots of SEO [...]
To coincide with Jack Tatar’s book, Safe 4 Retirement, this website was a rework of a StudioPress theme on WordPress. Khanh Lam of Poka Yoke Design did the coloring and logo. Blog heavy, this website focuses on new content and includes SEO enhancements. Safe 4 Retirement Website
The Newtown Presbyterian Church website was one of my first custom WordPress builds on Genesis by StudioPress (affiliate link). Since then I’ve never looked back, it’s an amazing framework. This is a custom design by Khanh Lam of Poka Yoke Design and features amazing original photography by Craig Downey. The site has many custom post [...]
The Presbytery of Philadelphia is a custom design by Khanh Lam of Poka Yoke Design and was built on WordPress. This website features a church finder for local congregations, job board, blog, upcoming events, and a tie into a resource center. Presbytery of Philadelphia Website
The Turquoise interior design website needed to put images at the front and let everything else fade to the background. Built as a custom site on WordPress, the front page consists of one large image rotators that changes out often as new press or projects come. The three main sections, press, furniture, and interior design, [...]
The Covenant Network of Presbyterians was originally designed by Adam Walker Cleaveland on WordPress. I took over the management of the site in 2011 and have since rebuilt the website as a custom Genesis (affiliate link) theme. It utilizes CSS3 to offer a responsive design so a user on a mobile device can easily read the [...]
Princeton Theological Seminary did a project that took the reader through Calvin’s Institutes in one year. It was a great project to develop because it involved lots of custom database work and brought in readers from all around the world. The website was designed by Khanh Lam as an independent contractor for the school. I [...]
Hands down, LOVE these guys. Two Friars and a Fool are a great group of guys that publish fun and thought provoking content. The website is a custom design by Nick Larson and is built on WordPress. We added custom tie-ins to Vimeo for the video responses and a few custom post types for ease [...]
The Grade A Fresh blog was one of the first builds I worked on with Khanh Lam as Poka Yoke Design. Originally set as a food blog for Quan Lam, it was a custom build with the WordPress 2010 theme as the base. Since then the blog has switched over to a new theme and [...]
SmugMug is a great photo service. While I’ve been a Flickr user since they opened their doors, lately they’ve been acting like the fat 40 year-old who wont shut up about how great they were in High School. SmugMug is a younger company, but has amazing tools to offer their users. When a client asked [...]
Here is a simple way to add a Google Calendar to your WordPress page or post. Instead of trying to add an iFrame, this plugin will allow you to use a shortcode instead. Giving you a more reliable calendar. The plugin can be downloaded here or you can view the files on gitHub Once installed, [...]
Below is a Prezi of my 2012 NYC WordCamp presentation. If the below embed is not working, you can view it at Prezi here
iframes suck. That’s really all that needs to be said. But, for a lot of our favorite programs the easy option is to drop in an iframe to display content (I’m looking at you Facebook and Google). A lot of our support tickets involve admins trying to get the most out of their systems by [...]
One of the most requested features we get is Podcasting. People want a simple means for adding audio or video to their website and then have it display on iTunes. There are lots of good solutions available in the plugin repository, but I’ve found most of them to be over bloated with features or riddled [...]
Ok, so as usual I am late to the party; I guess this “blogging thing” isn’t a fad. Besides the fact that I hate writing, I just never had enough to say to justify a full blown blog. What I am going to attempt to do is not ground breaking, and quite frankly it’s a [...]
The Association of Practical Theology website is a minimalist design, built on the WordPress 2010 theme with minor design work. Khanh Lam of Poka Yoke Design created the header image and we dropped in a custom background. The real work on this site came in the programming. This organization charges for membership and wanted part [...]
Just before Kenda published Almost Christian her publisher requested that she have a website. As a current student of hers, I was elated to help and jumped at the chance. The website is a full customized design by Khanh Lam of Poka Yoke Design and built on WordPress. It was meant to be a static [...]
Youth Ministry Architects (YMA), led by Mark DeVries, does an amazing job consulting and resourcing youth ministries. The website is a custom design and built on WordPress. It includes a store, blog, social media integration, and job bank. YMA has been growing strong since we’ve partnered with them, and I am excited to see what’s [...]