Jared Rodriguez

Candice is an investigative journalist with a book on the way, and she had a month to get her site ready for the launch. I started by customizing an off-the-shelf book-promotion theme so we could quickly explore color, typography, and branding. Once those were settled, I rebuilt the site entirely in Blocksy using the block editor and custom snippets. I turned her awards and clips into editable collections with drag-and-drop ordering, added automatic featured-image cropping, and integrated a newsletter signup to help build her audience ahead of the launch.

Troy is a filmmaker whose portfolio site lost its theme in a crash, leaving him stuck with a bare-bones fallback. He brought me two mockups: one with the expanding video player and other features he wanted, and another with the visual style and layout he preferred. I combined the two approaches in Blocksy, using custom snippets to recreate the requested interactions, then carried the design through his project pages. Projects, testimonials, and FAQs are now easy for him to edit, and “Start a Project” opens a contact form from anywhere on the site. The result gives him the visual presentation he wanted without sacrificing the ability to manage the site himself.