Zack Philipps

Scratch is the world's first Advanced Custom Fields-ready WordPress theme. It's not so much a theme as a springboard for building your own fully custom WordPress themes.

Scratch starts with the HTML5 Boilerplate. Then, we add our custom SCSS and JS frameworks. After that, our custom Grunt file and Gulp file. Finally, we add our barebones template files and Scratch.php, a very small file that packs a punch.

This was a doozy. The old AspiraCE website was written in ASP with an MS SQL back-end. I rebuilt the site for WordPress, updated the design, and made it responsive. I improved several user actions on the site, like the course search above, by implementing AJAX calls instead of using GET variables.

I developed the redesign of the blog and implemented several UX enhancements via Angular. I built a real-time search and Single Page Application behavior, complete with URL routing, to eliminate a lot of page loads.

This project was a real treat because of the design budget. We didn't have the limits we usually have on projects, so we were able to spend extra hours perfecting the CSS and optimizing things. There's a beautiful background video on the home page, and making the navigation menu look nice on top of it was a lot of fun.

As you scroll down the home page, you see the Divisions section. Our designer did a great job with this area and came up with the whole concept for the hover effect. The individual Divisions pages are equally beautiful.