A bright mobile-first website refresh for Silver Glen – the only cooperative community for senior independent living in King County.
The new site features a video of facility stills; an image gallery; and a community events calendar. System operating fonts were chosen to optimize site performance, with a minimum font-size of 18 pixels to improve readability for older audiences. A sitewide sidebar can promote units for sale, as needed.
The temple’s old fixed-width, non-mobile friendly TwentyTen Theme was upgraded to a custom-branded mobile-first Theme, based on _Underscores. The site redesign included extensive content re-organization, performance optimization and security hardening. Particular attention was paid to usability, including a Google Translation feature for temple members.
My latest WordPress child theme project for Cascadia Search Dogs – a nonprofit dedicated to the development of high quality detection and search dogs through training and education. This membership-based site supports the organization’s K9 Search & Rescue mission in the Pacific Northwest.
With a total page size of 585 Kb and only 24 server requests, this site ranks in the 90th percentile of Google PageSpeed Insights:
Mobile Speed Optimization: 93/100 Desktop Speed Optimization: 97/100
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A mobile-first visual redesign for Exodus Housing– a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports families fleeing domestic violence by providing access to permanent housing, tailored services and community resources.
With an overall page size of 336 Kb, 84% smaller than the industry median, and only 16 web server requests – this site receives a Pingdom performance score of 93/100.
Scope of Work Accessibility Improvements Copyediting and content migration Front-End web development Performance optimization Security hardening Search engine optimization Visual redesign
Team: Cipalla Communications, Scott Marlow, Joan van den Berg
Dumas Bay Centre is a unique event & retreat venue owned by the City of Federal Way.
Before the website redesign, center staff were limited to editing existing website content using Cushy CMS, a WYSIWYG HTML editing tool. To add new content, city IT staff needed to upload files to the web host.
The website was migrated to a new host and WordPress was configured to allow full rich-content editing. The new mobile-friendly site features a more modern look, with image galleries, oEmbed video support, site search, SSL protection, and feedback and rental inquiry forms. All implemented with accessibility in mind.
Performance Metrics
Performance
WordPress Site
Benchmark
Google Mobile Speed:
68
Google Desktop Speed
81
Pingdom
87
faster than 87% of tested sites
WebPageTest Speed Index
1,017
median = ~4,493 top 10% = <1,388
YSlow
81
average score = 70
Web Page Size
526 Kb
In 2017, average page size = ~2.4 Mb median page size = ~1.9 Mb
