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Enye

Hey Guys,

Today I’m going to be demoing a template-based WordPress site here. So let’s check it out. 

(refreshes page, numbers roll and eventually stop, highlights Engineering and Founders programs)

This is a 501C3 nonprofit. It’s an international tech charity. They have two main aspects here. It’s the Engineering program and the Founders program. 

(scrolls down to the bottom of page, shows it is an 8-week course)

So what they do is they train engineers in Africa, specifically Nigeria during an eight-week course, and during that eight-week course. They learn a bunch of skills related to programming, deliver a bunch of features in an entrepreneur’s web application. So essentially it pairs them together and then by the end of it there should be an MVP app. 

(goes towards the bottom of page, highlights interactivity and animations)

As you can see there is a lot of pre-built interactivity that comes up, a lot of animations and templates are a really great value for a business owner or someone who wants to get an 80% done website and just load in some content. 

(scrolling up and down, comes upon a picture of self)

There’s a lot that you can do with it, they are pre-built out. The one downside is they can be kind of heavy as far as load times because there is so much included in them, but if we check out this site a bit more, we can see surprise surprise! I actually helped start this charity, but I just want to go through and show some pages and things like that. Let’s check it out. 

(screen changes to page with cards and photos of team members)

So I have these cards that are in here and then you have these hover-links that you can go through. This card style is something that is throughout the template. These are essentially components, WordPress components, and you can see that throughout.

(selects Partners, continues explaining as he pages around)

Let’s find another one, Say Partners for example. You can see that it’s a good look I think. I think it works. But I just wanted to demo this guys, because there is a lot of potential for business owners here to be successful using just a template-based website. It allows for a lower budget overall. I think it’s good to start with the templates a lot of the time and then go from there because building out from scratch takes so long unless you have a really custom build on the foundation, it makes sense to use a template as a base and just change things up, optimize it, things like that. 

(hovers over web address)

So just check it out. If you want to see this website it’s enye.tech. Also if you want to hire any of these remote engineers, they have very good rates, naturally, being in Nigeria. So if you are into international workforces, kind of like, off-shore international. This may be a good option if you are able to provide oversight and management and allow them to grow on your team. 

(brings back to the main page)

So cool! Alright, guys that’s pretty much it and all I have to say is check out some template-based websites because they are a fantastic value for the dollar amount. For anyone starting a business, that is needed. Just hire a web developer, get a template in, get them to do some customizations. 

And what is Chris saying? Ahh, I don’t know but I think we were having a funny conversation about something. Close that out. Alright guys, have a good one. Bye.

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Zaam

This was a project I did for a  company called Zaam, as a freelance contractor with my business. Zaam does business onboarding forms. They are a SaSS company. Fantastic product if you are a large company or if you have a lot of regulation for your clients, a lot of forms, automatic PDF’s filling out agreements use Zaam, Zaam.io, fantastic. 

So this was the main product that I helped build for one of their clients. 

(clicks on yes)

This is a pre-filter that puts you on a list or allows you onto the next form. If I click “no”, I’ll basically get blocked and I cannot continue, but let’s say yes. 

So, here we are, this is the main step forms here. 

(tries to click ahead)

I cannot click ahead. I have to do it sequentially. We thought that made the most sense. 

(clicks on the plug-in to the top right, starts to click on fields to reveal roll down menus)

I also have a handy plug-in here, that allows the browser to fill in fields with dummy data. On some forms that I built for this company, we have live SSN checking and what-not, a sync validation in it, but this is just synchronous validation for this. So you can see that we continue. 

This is still in development, but it’s more or less there.

(hovers over circles to the left)

 So on production these circles are the right size and things are more or less good, so you can see that now that we have the second form. 

(clicks on first circle)

If we want to go back, we can go back. 

(tries to change something)

If I change something, and I try to continue…oooh, that’s actually optional. You can see that we cannot continue. That was funny there, guys. 

(resets page)

So let’s continue, that basically re-saves it. I’ll show you here after I upload some more things. 

(chooses from citizenship field)

Citizenship, let’s say it’s not American, there’s some logic, 

(fills in number for passport)

has to be a National I.D., passport number, and you have to upload your passport.  

(scrolls down to photo upload area)

Let’s upload some cute dog photos, bam! 

(continues scrolling through the fields)

They’re uploaded, they go to the server, there’s an EUID, there’s an S3 bucket that host’s them, but let’s say that the country they actually reside in is different. So U.S. country?  They

Dropdown. Non-U.S. country? Date or Province textbox. Makes sense, right? 

(hits continue)

So I could continue on that. There is some logic for these, right? Let’s click on through all that. 

(starts filling in answers. Clicks other owners)

Are there other owners? You can add these dynamically. One, two, got it? 

(fills out one field)

But for the sake of time, let’s just do one. 

(quickly selects options in fields)

Let outright quick, let’s say they are Albanian, and we need a different photo. Let’s use Patch pup. He’s a great one. And the country, let’s say they are actually in the U.S. now. A little logic on the continue. We save that and let’s fill this out. And of course, these have to match, so Lucy Rosalles, alright. All this data goes to a CRM that Zaam has built for the client. This is essentially a pre-submit that stays in the date base, 

(clicks on authorization)

and you have your typical authorization. Click-throughs, if you click this link it goes to a pdf generated by the back end. I didn’t build that, so I’m not going to demo it.

(clicks submit)

You have a final submit. Submit application. Bam! There you go! Right? The cool thing about this is if I go back…

(pop-up window opens with something about motorcycles)

oops! I ride motorcycles. Let’s load that out. 

(goes back to data just entered)

Okay, you can see that you can go back to all this data and it has been saved. You can see these images, see these owners, it’s all there. So really great software, like I said it’s still in development, so we’re still putting in more logic and integrating this to be more complete, but for demonstration purposes and an example of what my business can offer your company, I think this stands to be a very good example. So I hope you enjoyed it, and take care. 

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The First Website

Michael Paccione here, and it’s throwback Thursday during coronavirus pandemic season, so I thought I would just show the very first website I ever got paid to build from scratch. 

I made this in 2016. It was the very first one. I am very proud of it, because everything on here aside from this google map (it’s a 404 now)…

Mike Finklestein, who is a dog walker here, it was his service area for his dog walking business. 

So you were able to see actually, what zones he catered to. So imagine a google map and then a radius, slightly opaque. I actually went out with him, here in San Francisco to Fort Funston. I went on a walk with him and I took all these photos. I also created this background. Everything here, I made. I was really proud of it. I think I actually did a good job. I believe he paid me $300 for this. Given it was my first website, with the amount of time and effort I put into it…I think that was pretty fair there. 

I actually still think this is a fantastic website. I really like the design. It really goes with the Viking Dog Hiking bit. And even way back then in 2016, I knew about mobile responsiveness. 

(adjusts window size as window changes with it)

So if we drop this down, you can see…bring this back up here. You can see that it changes a bit. Look at that action there. Boom! 

(shows phone size screen)

That’s a phone.

(scrolls to the bottom)

You get a little menu at the bottom.

(hits About menu item at the bottom)

I believe this pops it up. Right? Pretty good for my first website, four years ago.

Mike’s a friend of mine there, and he’s still walking dogs. I started my own business for walking dogs for many years there. So, I thought I would just do a little retro action there, because nowadays I create complex user interfaces using the latest architecture and tools for handling reactive data, and this was just the good old days.

Well I hope everyone’s doing well during coronavirus. If you need any compex websites, with wordpress or web application development, please reach out and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Thank you