With over nine thousand posts over 200,000 average monthly views, the Source is Metro’s mouthpiece to its transit customers. A staff of over 15 editors and contributors publish five stories daily and the Editor wanted to take a more photo-centric, simple approach, a stark contrast to the previous theme.
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Metro Annual Report
Is there such a thing as ‘pixel perfect design?’ Can a financial budget be artsy? I found out the hard way with this design-intensive manipulation of a one-page style video WordPress theme that pushed the limits of cascading style sheets.
Bonus Treks
In this General Assembly’s Front-End Development course, we learned the basics of code, syntax, troubleshooting and implementing our own design by learning HTML5 with a concentration on jQuery, Amazon Web Services to host, Bootstrap Frameworks and GitHub as a versioning control system.
The Plan, Measure M Ballot Measure
One-page video style informational WordPress website highlighting ballot measure in eight languages that appeared on the November 2016 ballot in California. Site features custom post types and taxonomies, custom web icon font and various jQuery libraries and JavaScript functionality.
Metro (Los Angeles) Vehicle Interactive
In General Assembly’s Front-End Development course, we learned the basics of code, syntax, troubleshooting and implementing our own design by learning HTML5 including Background Video, CSS Animation, jQuery libraries such as Bootstrap, Parallax and GitHub Pages.
Metro Developer
A subscriber website for technical individuals and entities interested in using transportation and multi-modal data to build web applications or anything developers can dream up. Subscribers can access Metro Data feeds and API information to build their applications.
America Fast Forward
Second iteration of the America Fast Forward website; customized the Super Hero Wordpress Theme to mimic the Metro brand campaign for this national initiative. Child theming, infographics, photo carousels and php customization work.
Star Trek Anniversary Web Font
How do you celebrate an American television icon and demonstrate front-end web development concepts in a interesting way? Creating a web font from the original sixty’s show, Star Trek, for use on Bonus Trek, a faux fan site.
El Pasajero
The Spanish language sister site to the Source, El Pasajero is the voice of Metro to Los Angeles’ large Hispanic community. Stories highlighted via the new featured content function, a custom header featuring a fly-out search tool allows the editorial team to surface content in various visual formats on the home page.
More Expo
Tasked with finding a full-featured drag-and-drop WordPress page builder to produce this video one-page style theme to celebrating the extension of the Metro Exposition Line (Los Angeles to Santa Monica). Created a custom web icon font and a jQuery counter incorporated into the final design and provided production support.