Portfolio

During my work with Bitcookie, we were approached by two different clients who sought to drive higher conversions using Search Engine Optimization (SEO). One was an e-commerce site, and the other was a professional staffing agency.

What are you supposed to do when your software stack can’t support a plugin that your client specifically requested? Or what about the inverse situation: you find a plugin that might work, but it isn’t supported anymore? It could be a perfect fit or it could be hours of patching, and tweaking to revive the software into a working state.

What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG, pronounced “wizzy-wig”) text editors used to be all the rage back in the golden age of WordPress. Fast forward to today, and WYSIWYG editors haven’t quite lived up to all of the dot-com bubble hype.

Judith Bicking, a local illustrator in Asheville, North Carolina, reached out to me looking for a portfolio website that helped her organize and display her artwork. In her work as an illustrator, she has used dozens of third-party portfolio hosting services, but none of them quite lived up to her expectations. They were difficult to maintain, often charged a fee to host her art, didn’t always have a full-featured or intuitive image gallery, and they didn’t always help generate client leads. She also paid for a hosted domain that she wasn’t using, and the semi-monthly charges were beginning to add up.

Some years ago, I built a single-player chess game called Rudrata based around the knight’s tour. If you’re not familiar with the concept, the object of the game is to visit every square on a chessboard using only a knight. More recently, I wondered what it would be like if there were two knights on the board: one white and one black.