Zane Jones

Making More Internet,
One Day at a Time

I’m a web developer currently living in Mauldin, South Carolina. Since you’re here, please allow me to tell you a little about myself!

I’ve been building websites professionally for over a decade, both freelancing and as an employee of web development and digital marketing companies.

I’m currently the Lead Web Developer at The Whitaker Group.

I collaborate well with others, I provide friendly, personal service to clients, and I love the work I do.

TL;DR — Zane loves making websites.

10+ Years of Professional Experience

15+ Years of Backend Development

20+ Years of Frontend Development

Excellent Interpersonal Skills

Additional Useful Skills

The next section is an exhausting list of things I’ve done in the course of my professional work.

It’s too long, but if I’m not going to talk myself up in my portfolio, what am I doing, you know?

Feel free to skip ahead to my work samples.

10+ Years working with WordPress

Content Management
Theme Customization & Development
Custom Plugin Programming
Experienced w/ WooCommerce, Elementor, Advanced Custom Fields and other Popular Plugins

15+ Years of Backend Development

PHP Programming
SQL Databases, including PHPMyAdmin
DNS / Domain Name Record Management
WordPress – Moving sites between hosts and domains
Cross-site Communication including cURL, REST APIs, etc.
Basic Server Management

20+ Years of Frontend Development

Experienced with modern HTML / CSS / JavaScript
Including CSS Grid and Flexbox Page Design
Experienced with the Canvas API
Able to impelment pages or themes from mockups by a graphic designer (From PSD, etc.)
Responsive web design for desktop and mobile views
Experience writing JS with and without jQuery
Dynamic scripting with AJAX
Experienced with Bootstrap framework
Awareness of web accessibility needs
Awareness of SEO / search engine optimization needs
Able to analyze and improve site performance / speed
Able to troubleshoot problems, interpret error messages, etc.

Excellent Interpersonal Skills

Friendly, Positive Attitude
Collaborates well with others
Takes an interest in—and is responsive to—the different needs of different teams (SEO/marketing, sales, customer service, product managers, etc.)
Enjoys teaching others and learning from others’ expertise
Takes feedback and criticism constructively
High commitment to quality and “doing things right”
Good at defining problems and identifying solutions
Happy to present to clients on technical matters in a client-friendly, understandable way
Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts — Shawnee State University, 2012

Other Skills

Eager to jump in and assist wherever needed.
Understands Regular Expressions (Regex sequences)
Copywriting, proofreading, editing
20+ Years Photoshop Experience
DSLR Photography & Adobe Lightroom Experience
Video Editing Experience
Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
Also experienced with BigCommerce and Shopify
Great sense of humor

Work Samples

The following sites are examples of my work. The sites themselves are the work of many people collectively, from the client whose business is brought to life to the photographers, graphic designers, and digital strategists, not just myself. I always want to give credit where credit is due, and I’m fortunate to have worked with many skilled professionals!

For most projects, I was the Lead Web Developer, handling a wide range of tasks from theme customization to content build-out to programming new functionality and interactivity in JavaScript or PHP. I often end up contributing to planning and content creation as well, depending on the project.

I’ve highlighted some particularly interesting aspects of these projects, but please feel free to ask if you have any questions about my specific contributions to a given project.

Snoozer Pet Products

https://snoozerpetproducts.com

I’ve worked with Snoozer for 8+ years, updating their software, integrating with 3rd party services, programming in tons of custom functionality upon their request, troubleshooting customer issues, and much more.

My favorite thing I’ve built for Snoozer is their “Bed Builder” tool, which takes their extensive product catalogue and walks users through it to find the right bed for their needs. That project required extensive planning, PHP work to compile the WooCommerce product data I needed, and solid front-end development to make sure the user interface was fast, responsive, and enjoyable to use for the customer.

Hot Dog Collars

https://hotdogcollars.com/

Note: This site has been sold and redesigned since my time working on it. These screenshots reflect the site during my time.

HDC’s most interesting offering was the ability to customize text on almost all of their products, so I programmed a tool to allow visitors to preview their custom text, taking into account a wide range of patterns and text styles.

This was a particularly challenging project because the site was built in BigCommerce, which significantly limited our options on how to build the tool. Creating the preview tool required me to gain an in-depth knowledge of their product family in order to build something flexible enough to cover their needs, besides the custom JavaScript and working with BigCommerce’s Stencil templating engine.

Bio-Groom

https://biogroom.com/

Bio-Groom’s original website was built in WordPress…but all of their product data was in a non-standard post format devised by a previous developer. I wrote custom scripts to convert their existing product data into WooCommerce products, enabling them to start selling products directly to retail and wholesale customers through their website. This saved the team a ton of time and made future development much easier.

Bio-Groom also required some custom work with their shipping setup, to support real-time calculated shipping rates alongside a customized fee structure for shipping certain products.

Berings

https://www.berings.com/

I worked with another programmer to develop a system for pulling product data from a supplier’s system into our WooCommerce-based website. I wrote an easy-to-use, well-documented PHP toolkit to connect to the supplier’s API and fetch product data. Thanks to my project planning and code, the collaboration was well organized and successful.

I also wrote their in-store pickup functionality, including considerations for the available product quantity between physical locations, store hours and holidays, and a safety buffer for inventory issues. My code calculates the earliest available pickup at both of their store locations, presents that info the the customer, and enables them to select pickup as a specialized shipping method at checkout.