Art Wells is a web developer with over 13 years experience in internet engineering, programming and e-commerce consulting. With a focus on solid, easily maintained and long-lasting solutions for businesses and non-profits, Art Wells has experiences and stories to tell about developing with open source software and social networking platforms.
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Recent Productions
- Ryz website - In preparation for Magic: The Gathering design contest and other great plans, I helped pump up ryzwear.com. I further customized and extended the Zend-based communit.as social networking platform they had installed. I touched up the Content Management System, and did some Smarty template work. Wow, I did not expect to fall in love with communit.as, but there it is. Thinking about rewriting nshrine in it.
- Six Apart/TypePad Wordpress Plugin - I had the opportunity to work with Six Apart and offer their AntiSpam and Media services through a Wordpress plugin. It became a big deal within hours of being introduced.
- nshrine.com - using jQuery, Paypal, Google Checkout, OpenId, LAMP, all layout, database and programming
- nshrine facebook app - using the nshrine infrastructure, Art Wells offers a parallel service on facebook
- nshrine's twitter instructions - a twitter bot checks for messages and places candles in nshrine, many features
- vibe-o-mat - a facebook messaging service in collaboration with goopymart
- wingmail - announce bot re-publishing content to twitter users
- arcalus.com - wordpress-based website
- oldoregonphotos.com - Magento e-commerce installation and custom extensions and design elements. in progress
- alamedametalworks.com - site that ranks very highly in search engines and generates a lot of leads
- rejuvenation.com - makes millions with a business-logic product configurator, a guided-selling product suggestion service, and a 3D-rendering service for visualizing custom product, built by Art Wells, and now maintained and extended by some great people
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