CreatorVC
I came to work for CreatorVC in 2021 and have been managing their website for Kickstarter campaigns ever since. They are an independent documentary company that used to use Kickstarter and other fund raising websites to fund their documentaries. They tried to move to Shopify in 2020 and went through 2 designers before me and had a real problem with stock issues as when it comes to Kickstarter you are having people fund a project that may take a year or two before it gets sent out. When I came onboard the website was a mess and their stock management was horrendous to the point they nearly had a problem sending out In Search of Darkness Part II, when it first released. I came in on a flash sale and completely revamped the website as well as how they handled their stock with their fulfilment company. Over the years they have several campaigns which I have been glad to be apart of. In Search of Darkness Part III, FPS: First Person Shooter, In Search of Tomorrow, Aliens Expanded and the upcoming The Thing Expanded Campaign (August 2024) & In Search of Darkness: 1990 – 1994 (October 2024). At first we originally used Debut theme which was Shopify 1.0 in 2021 as that was what the old dev had, then with Shopify 2.0 upgrade we switched to Dawn theme and finally when my theme was finished we switched to that and have been using it ever since Aliens Expanded and ISOD 1900 – 1994. Current live websites as of creating this post. https://90shorrordoc.com & https://aliens-expanded.com
Original Duckhead
I originally started working for Original Duckhead in 2022 and first off I was given a theme they had bought and a Figma design to customise to their needs. Yet as the years have went on they have had a couple more iterations and design/branding changes. Which another coming up later in 2024. Yet through all this I eventually convinced them to start using my own Shopify Theme which is lightweight and easier to customise than a bought theme, not coming with all the baggage. Managing to optimise the speed and design much easier. Everything is written in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX and Shopify Liquid with SplideJS for the sliders. I am always updating pages and helping with general management of the store and website every month or so as there is always changes and improvements as the site has improved and become a 6 figure a year business since its beginning. A great company to work for.
Sapling Spirits
This is another Shopify store built with my own theme. I was given a Figma design to completely update their old site. It was just a standard free Shopify theme thrown together to get something up fast so had a hard time converting and was very slow. So I suggested we use my theme to help optimise it more and have more of a custom build that was easier to edit for the client. Using metaobject for the counter on the homepage and other pages, JavaScript to build it. As well as using metafields to help customise each of the products. This was quite a custom design and was a good challenge to build, all in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, Shopify Liquid and SplideJS Typescript for the sliders.
Spiro
This is a Shopify store built with my own theme. I typical web development project where I was given a Figma design and then used my custom theme to build out the design. All written in vanilla HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, Shopify Liquid and SplideJS typescript for the sliders used throughout the website. A very fun project and great client to work for. A nice and clean modern design which I really enjoyed coding and customising my theme to fit it.
CTO Lighting
CTO was another broken website handed to me to fix. As usually there was a lot that worked and a lot that didn’t. So what I did was install a new version of the theme. Rebuild the look that needed it, then simply copied over the code and third party assets that worked. As this was a specific custom built website due to how the client doesn’t want a checkout process right now (that’s coming soon). Customer instead request for quotes or can apply for an account then can see pricing etc. Which in itself was custom as we had to use the Shopify liquid to work out different prices for different cotenants and different discounts for different clients. A job like this was just under 50 hours to complete and I had quoted between 50 and 60 so managed to get it done faster than I thought due to the sheer mess of the website.
LA Nation
LA Nation was unfortunately a disaster. The site had been customised by several different developers before me and by the time I was hired, the site was a broken mess making no sales even though they were spending ad revenue sending traffic. This ended up being a big job I needed to not only update the theme, but move over all the customisations that worked, which the client had to keep. So this basically meant compiling a list and having to go search through everything to find the code as the old developers did not have a good code of practice so it was very messy.
Then after that there were my own customisations I had to code. Which you can see below as an example in images below the homepage preview. All the individual products have their own colours and the client wanted the colours to look like they were actual products throughout the site, and not just one product card with lots of variant options. You can see how the products have similar names and their own images yet below the title list the correct colours. Then if you click into any of those colour options it picks the correct variant (colour) and also lists each of them with their own unique links.
I made sure they were all kept together and had the appropriate comments in case another developer came after me. This also makes it easier to update the themes in the future.
Nought
Nought was another interesting project as it was something new we were trying again. This time, instead of using Figma to design and then translate though designs into code within Shopify. We tried to use a plugin that would take a Webflow website and transform it into Shopify. In hindsight I am not too sure if this was the right way to do it, it did save some time with me having to write my own code for sections and animations. Yet when it came to trying to add it into Shopify, the app hadn’t written the code to the best of practice. No matter the site was still completed within the allocated budget as I knew I was working with this plugin. Although I would not advise this. It’s easier, faster, and cleaner to have the site written from scratch based on a design. Instead of giving it to a plugin.
Tiger Fight Prints
Tiger Fight Prints was a smaller job than I normally do. The reason was another developer had started before me and essentially made a mess of the website. So most of the set up was done, it was just a case of fixing what was broken and making the site functionality. I decided it would be best to start again with a fresh theme built from scratch. Since design was mostly done, and all products and information in the admin had been added. It was just a case of rebuilding the site to look like the designs.
Zaila
This site uses the free Debut theme on Shopify and as you can see from the Figma designs below all the sections had to be added fresh and fit in with the theme and work around everything. The design itself nice and simple with very striking colours highlighting this new brand as it finally opened it’s website this year due to delays with packaging due to COVID. A site like this comes in around $1,750 – $2,000USD. Max
Shaz & Kiks
Shaz and Kiks was a redesign of an old website created by an Agency that unfortunately cut corners. So I decided to use the Narrative theme which is free on Shopify and already had features pre-coded that we could utilise and keep costs of the overall development down as all we had to do was customise these existing features. The design itself which is great was also a lot simpler to create so development time was faster.