Hoots Wings

While working for Morrison I had the pleasure of building a website for Hoots Wings. The CMS was Perch and it was mostly HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript on the frontend, however I built out a customer store locator using NodeJS and VueJS. I was the sole frontend developer responsible for taking the designs from SketchUp and translating them to the site you see now. Most of the blocks and templates are built using a mix of PHP and HTML/SCSS. There was also some JavaScript for things like getting the users location and rendering popups/modals. ...

July 12, 2023 · 2 min · 268 words · Mike Conrad

Hilger Grading Portal

Back around 2014 I took on my first freelance development project for a Homeschool Co-op here in Chattanooga called Hilger Higher Learning. The problem that they were trying to solve involved managing grades and report cards for their students. In the past, they had a developer build a rudimentary web application that would allow them to enter grades for students, however it lacked any sort of concurrency meaning that if two teachers were making changes to the same student at the same time, teacher b’s changes would overwrite teacher a’s changes. This was obviously a huge headache. ...

May 21, 2023 · 3 min · 473 words · Mike Conrad