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Developer

These days, a web developer is usually expected to be well-rounded and specialize in several aspects of the web. The industry continues to grow exponentially, and anyone involved should know that no one can specialize in all of it. So what do I mean when I say I'm a web developer? Let me start by sharing the more specific web roles I consider myself a good fit for, and why:

Roles

Front-End Developer

All things considered, this is primarily where my skill set and experience places me. Most of what I do is comprised of converting design and content to a functional user interface. In more recent years I've been using a lot of Node, React, GraphQL and Gatsby.

Creative Developer

This lesser-known role is where I see myself heading in my career path. Generally expected to have some HTML canvas and WebGL knowledge, as well as a deep understanding of CSS, a Creative Developer specializes in digital experiences. I am passionate about learning these skills.

WordPress Developer

The majority of my web industry experience involves over 100 WordPress websites I designed, built and/or managed over the course of about 12 years. Most of these include my own custom theme and some of my own plugins (10 available in the public directory under the name AddFunc).

Web Developer

To me, this blanket term means understanding the fundamental mechanics of the web and having a thorough grasp of the 3 pillars of web linguistics (HTML, CSS and JavaScript). In addition to the daily use of these, a web developer sees the relationships, similarities and differences in all web languages and can therefore adapt as needed.

Web/UI Designer

I have designed many websites and have carefully observed the evolution of modern web design trends and its crossover into online and offline apps.

Portrait of Joe Rhoney.

Skills & Tools

These are the technical skills I've picked up and tools I've worked with in my career. I'm always eager to learn and teach what I know!

CSS3
HTML5
JavaScript
jQuery
Markdown
MySQL
PHP
React
Contentful
Drupal
Gatsby
Joomla
Strapi
WordPress
Apache
Babel
Git
Modernizr
Node.js
npm
Sass
Tailwind
BEM
Responsive
W3C
Terminal
CodePen
Stack Overflow
GitHub
AWS
Digital Ocean
Figma
Analytics
Drive
Atlassian
Jira
Stripe
Chrome
Firefox
Edge
Safari
VS Code
Atom
Brackets
FileZilla
Illustrator
Photoshop
Designer
Photo
Selenium
Apple
Windows
Linux

Work Portfolio

Explore a glimpse of my work history featuring projects I've either spearheaded or significantly contributed to in their development and ongoing maintenance.

Meta

Analytics Enhancement and Website Maintenance

Screenshot of meta.com.

Built out sections on several pages using Meta's custom XML component sets. Some of the areas of the website included:

  • Quest products
  • Quest Accessories
  • Horizon
  • Meta for Work
  • VR for Good
  • Meta Experiences

Reviewed sections built by others (including Meta staff and my team mates) for design adherence, copy accuracy and code quality. Deprecated old components (built in XHP), as well as old pages, files and directories. Updated, added and removed 301 redirects. Executed similar work on oculus.com and portal.facebook.com, prior to migration to meta.com. Audited page event logging on several meta.com pages, compared to best practices, recommended specific updates, and helped to establish more precise standards for analytics. Implemented these findings upon approval.

  • XHP (aka Hack)
  • JavaScript
  • Custom CMS
  • Tealium
  • React
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • XML
  • PHP
See Project:

Codazen

Website and blog maintenance, modifications and improvements.

Screenshot of codazen.com.

Updated pages with React, powered by Gatsby on Node and deployed via GitHub through Netlify (prior to migration). Created new React components. Participated in peer-reviews as required for all work. Added blog posts powered by HubSpot. Became the go-to for Codazen's blog as to it's maintenance and structure and necessary steps for improvement. Provided insight and direction on migration to newer frameworks and platforms, for an improved company website.

  • JavaScript
  • Contentful
  • HubSpot
  • GraphQL
  • GitHub
  • Gatsby
  • React
  • HTML
  • Sass
  • CSS3
  • JSX
  • Git
See Project:

Los Angeles County Parks & Recreation

New modern website for the county's many parks, built with WordPress.

Screenshot of parks.lacounty.gov.

Working at RD Technology Solutions, I contributed to the development of many websites for the County of Los Angeles such as these. Some of my responsibilities included:

  • Responsive web layout
  • Content formatting and styling
  • Accessibility compliance
  • Page element selection and creation

On the LA County Parks website, we needed an entire set of icons to represent the various features available at all of their parks, while adhering to a consistent look. I was provided icons for a few park features, and was tasked to find or create matching icons for the remaining features. Using Adobe Illustrator, I fabricated or drew (from scratch) the remaining icons needed for the project, while maintaining a consistent color palette, stroke weight and size. The client was very happy with the results, as it was exactly what they wanted.

  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Responsive Design
  • WordPress Plugins
  • WordPress Theme
  • Vector Graphics
  • JavaScript
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
See Project:

Los Angeles County Probation Department

New modern website for a county probation department, built with WordPress.

Screenshot of probation.lacounty.gov.

The LA County Probation Dept. needed a new website with modern features.

Problem: They had several categories to feature, but within those categories they had a large amount of subcategories. They wanted to feature all of this on the home page, in a way that is user-friendly and relatively simple, despite the massive quantity of options. They also wanted a large slideshow on the Home page, to follow the modern trend, with friendly colors matching their logo.

Solution: I came up with a feature tile set representing the main categories, placed over a fullscreen slideshow. Clicking on each tile displays its many subcategories, which takes you to the pertinent page. With animated queues, this layout was clear and intuitive.

The client at the LA County Probation Dept. was very pleased with this new home page.

  • Responsive Design
  • WordPress Plugins
  • WordPress Theme
  • JavaScript
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • PHP
See Project:

Los Angeles Acting Coach

New website for an acting career trainer.

Screenshot of losangelesactingcoach.com.

April needed a modern website to market her acting coaching service. After Riafox put this new WordPress website together with a modern theme and fulfilled most of the necessary requirements, they asked me to modify a few of the theme features that fell short. This included:

  • The hero layout
  • The slideshow (for the testimonials)
  • The blog posts tiles
  • WordPress Plugins
  • WordPress Theme
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • PHP
See Project:

Kreizenbeck Constructors

Website makeover, built on WordPress with a modified theme.

Screenshot of kreizenbeckplanroom.com.

The client needed their WordPress website's design coded into the theme. The main objective was to showcase their construction work, so there were many galleries. A plugin with limited features used for the galleries, but it had limited features that didn't cover the design or informational needs. After I configured and coded adjustments in order to theme the website just as the design portrayed, I added an informational hover effect to the gallery, which did not come included with the plugin. The client was happy with the results and very pleased with the website overall.

  • WordPress Plugins
  • WordPress Theme
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • PHP
See Project:

Dental Websites

New WordPress websites, built with a custom theme and plugins.

While working at Gilleard Marketing, I launched many websites for dental practitioners, in states all across the U.S. Since WordPress was the platform of choice at GM, I built a custom theme and several custom plugins to expedite our workflow and support better control over desired end results.

As the web developer, I built these websites according to the designers' specifications, which were provided to me as a Photoshop file.

These are some of websites I built at Gilleard Marketing.

  • WordPress Theme
  • WordPress Plugins
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • PHP
Screenshot of bradentonperio.com
Screenshot of dentistinsantaclara.com
Screenshot of southfortworthdentist.com
Screenshot of westchestergentledentistry.com

WordPress Plugins

I have published 10 custom plugins in the WordPress directory under the name AddFunc. You can see them here:

AddFunc Plugins

My Résumé

You may already have it, but for convenience and to serve also as correlation, you can find my résumé here:

View Résumé

Journey of an Artist

Want to know more about me personally? Well, I wrote a bit about my life here:

My Story

Contact me

Please don't hesitate to send me an email. I'll get back to you as soon as possible. I look forward to hearing from you! :j

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