WordPress Development by Scott Marlow
A mobile responsive website redesign for Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple.
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.
WordPress Child Theme Development: Scott Marlow
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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Visual Design by Heidi Grace
WordPress Theme Development by Scott Marlow
This state affiliate site borrows its brand identity from the national School-Based Health Alliance.
A map helps stakeholders locate over 50 Washington State School-Based Health Centers. A dynamic blog publishes information on advocacy activities, events, funding opportunities, and jobs; visitors can subscribe by email to automatically receive these updates.
Based on _Underscores, the WordPress Theme is only 590 Kb – 76% smaller than the national site’s 2.5 Mb page size – with 64% fewer web server requests (30). Database-driven websites, like WordPress, are more performance optimized when server requests are less than 40-60.
Visual Design by Heidi Grace
WordPress Web Development by Scott Marlow
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.
Client: Dumas Bay Centre
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 | 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 |
| Web Server Requests | 27 | < 40 – 60 recommended |
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