Valik Rudd

SpokaneHousePlans.com is an eCommerce website where you can browse through hundreds of house plans or search for specifics using an elaborate custom search form. This website was custom designed and coded by me.

It is built on the WordPress platform and uses WooCommerce for eCommerce.

I started by designing the look of the website and then moved on to custom coding the theme to look like the design I created.

Once the site was up and looked good, I added a WooCommerce product add-on extension to add the necessary functionality.

Another thing that needed to be done was to add the ability for the site owner to add custom information for each plan, like square footage, bedrooms, bathrooms, and more. This was added using the post_meta function.

Additionally, I added a feature that allowed the owner of the website to be able to upload a PDF file that the users could print by clicking the Print button.

It was time to add the cherry on top: the custom search ability. This was a challenging, but definitely fun part of the entire project.

TrinityCross.com is a custom built eCommerce website built on WordPress utilizing WooCommerce.

I custom designed and coded the theme.

Oxyfresh.com is a 30 year-old mail-order company that started their eCommerce when the internet first began. They had a custom-built system created ages ago that they have been tweaking over the years to adapt to the changes in technology.

In the last decade, their system had become obsolete and outdated and they needed to move on to something modern.

I was hired as a consultant to find the solution for them that would fit their 30 year old needs. After evaluating the top 10 eCommerce solutions, we settled on using a mix of WordPress and Shopify.

WordPress was used for the front-end, blog, and the corporate part of the website, and Shopify was used as the eCommerce solution.

I was the designer that designed the new look of the website, and the coder that created the custom WordPress theme for it. I also transferred the design of the site into a Shopify theme that was customized to match the main site.

The data migration was challenging and took about 45 days to do. I ended up using a mix of existing Shopify apps as well as custom-built API utilities to migrate and manipulate over 75,000 customer records, about 300 products and over 300,000 historical orders.

IMBTheme.com is a custom WordPress theme that I built for the network marketing market. It allows the owner to fully customize the look of the blog as well as create custom sales pages and opt-in pages right from the theme's admin panel.

This began as an idea that I had to create a theme for marketers that would have all the tools they would need built-in without the need of external plugins.

I was contacted by Ty Tribble, the number one network marketing blogger of that time, and he asked if we could partner to make this theme better and focus it on network marketing needs.

This is when the new version of the IMBTheme was born. It has been sold to hundreds of bloggers and is now on hiatus because I no longer have time to support it.