Siolon

Summary of Recent Projects

I have been for­tu­nate to com­plete a few projects of late. They both con­sisted of ports of design con­cepts to the Word­Press plat­form. Both sides needed a pow­er­ful, seman­tic, web-based pub­lish­ing sys­tem; and Word­Press ful­filled all of their desires.

The Art of Capping

The Art of Cap­ping is a satir­i­cal blog that uses comics for their blog­ging medium. A few of the require­ments spe­cific to this project were:

• A rat­ing sys­tem for posts.
• A “Youtube-like” effect for giv­ing URLs to comics for embed­ding externally.
• Cus­tomized title gen­er­a­tion through PNG.
• Opti­mized lay­out for max­i­mum ad-revenue potential.

The web­mas­ter of the web­site had the fol­low­ing to say of my work (requested to remain anonymous):

“Chris Poteet is a remark­able per­son to work with. He worked dili­gently on our Word­press blog devel­op­ment project and made sure to address the project require­ments for a some­what non-traditional imple­men­ta­tion. Chris under­es­ti­mated the scope of the project slightly, but he still com­pleted the work in a most pro­fes­sional man­ner, tak­ing care to keep us abreast of his progress and, most impor­tantly, keep­ing us excited about the project. I have con­tracted many devel­op­ers using all of the var­i­ous sites on the Inter­net; Chris was by far one of the best expe­ri­ences I’ve had, and I’d whole­heart­edly rec­om­mend him to any­one in search of a solid, afford­able devel­oper. His tone and sen­si­bil­ity make him truly feel like part of the team, if only for a short time.”

Michael Cochrane L.L.B.

I was approached to port an exist­ing lay­out to the Word­Press plat­form for Michael Cochrane who is a lawyer, author, and TV per­son­al­ity. A few of the require­ments spe­cific to this project were:

• Con­ver­sion to 3 col­umn lay­out with widgets.
• Con­ver­sion of image-based nav­i­ga­tion to text to improve SEO and scalability.
• Restruc­tur­ing exis­tent con­tent to seman­tic, well-structured markup.

Kate Mor­gan is the Pres­i­dent of Pod­wise Social Media Inc. is the indi­vid­ual who sub-contracted me on this con­tract, and she had this to say of my work:

“I would highly rec­om­mend using Siolon and Chris Poteet for blog design, inte­gra­tion and cus­tomiza­tion. Not only did the end project exceed both my expec­ta­tions and that of my client, but Chris was reli­able, con­sci­en­tious and creative.”